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CARVER H S FOR APPLIED TECH/ENGINEERING/ARTS
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 14 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 29 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About CARVER H S FOR APPLIED TECH/ENGINEERING/ARTS
Located at 2100 S VICTORY DR, in HOUSTON, Texas, CARVER H S FOR APPLIED TECH/ENGINEERING/ARTS is an average-sized 9-12 campus that works with 708 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by ALDINE ISD.
Within ALDINE ISD, which oversees 76 schools and 56,419 students, CARVER H S FOR APPLIED TECH/ENGINEERING/ARTS is one campus in the system.
On demographics, CARVER H S FOR APPLIED TECH/ENGINEERING/ARTS shows that 52% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 44% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 19% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.
On the resource side, CARVER H S FOR APPLIED TECH/ENGINEERING/ARTS records 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting CARVER H S FOR APPLIED TECH/ENGINEERING/ARTS tighter than the state norm the norm. About 81% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CARVER H S FOR APPLIED TECH/ENGINEERING/ARTS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.5%, the actual is 43.1%, a residual of +4.6 points.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Harris County) reports that median household earnings sit near $74,983, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which CARVER H S FOR APPLIED TECH/ENGINEERING/ARTS is one.
REECE ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CARVER H S FOR APPLIED TECH/ENGINEERING/ARTS at 1st of 6; the average score across the group is 25.0%.
The school occupies a high-density site.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 21%: 901 students in 2018 compared to 708 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 in 2025.
Inside the community feed, the feed for CARVER H S FOR APPLIED TECH/ENGINEERING/ARTS typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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