Carver Elementary

As a moderately sized K-5 school in Newport News, Virginia, Carver Elementary educates 634 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of Newport News City Public Schools. That puts it 27% larger than the typical public school in Virginia, which averages around 499 students.

Carver Elementary is one of 40 schools operated by Newport News City Public Schools, a district that educates 25,882 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Carver Elementary reports that the most-represented group is Black (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 29% Hispanic, 8% White, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Newport News city as a whole is about 41% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 101% of students at Carver Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Carver Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 60.5%; actual is 42.6%, a gap of -17.9 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Newport News city) logs that the typical household earns roughly $69,634 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Carver Elementary is one of 48 public schools in Newport News city (combined enrollment of about 25,882 students).

Nearest neighbor: Crittenden Middle, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Carver Elementary at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 63.9%.

Carver Elementary operates from an urban location.

Five-year trend. Carver Elementary's enrollment has edged down 8% since 2018, when it stood at 687 (now 634). Hispanic enrollment moved from 14% to 29% across the same window.

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