G W CARVER MIDDLE

G W CARVER MIDDLE is a moderately sized junior high in WACO, Texas, part of WACO ISD. The school hosts 723 students in grades 6 through 8.

WACO ISD comprises 24 schools with combined enrollment of 13,476 students; G W CARVER MIDDLE is among them.

Looking at the student body, G W CARVER MIDDLE lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 55% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 38% Black, 4% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 27% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting G W CARVER MIDDLE tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 96% of students at G W CARVER MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than McLennan County's rate of about 62%.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, G W CARVER MIDDLE sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 31.9%; actual is 15.8%, a gap of -16.0 points.

In the broader community, McLennan County reports that median household income runs about $66,643, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across McLennan County's 124 public schools (combined enrollment of about 45,703 students), G W CARVER MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

AUDRE AND BERNARD RAPOPORT ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around G W CARVER MIDDLE. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts G W CARVER MIDDLE at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 29.7%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 38%: 524 students in 2018 compared to 723 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 27% to 38% across the same window.

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