Carver College and Career Academy

Carver College and Career Academy is a substantial all-grades campus in Memphis, Tennessee, overseen by Memphis-Shelby County Schools. The school serves 402 students in grades K through 12. By comparison, Tennessee's public schools average about 243 students each, so Carver College and Career Academy sits 65% above that benchmark.

Carver College and Career Academy is one of 211 schools operated by Memphis-Shelby County Schools, a district that works with 111,979 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Carver College and Career Academy logs that nearly all students (81%) are Black. Beyond that, the school logs 15% Hispanic, 2% White. By comparison, Shelby County as a whole is about 52% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Shelby County) records that the typical household earns roughly $63,767 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Carver College and Career Academy is one of 287 public schools in Shelby County (combined enrollment of about 154,209 students).

Memphis Scholars Florida Kansas is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Carver College and Career Academy.

The school occupies a city-core site.

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