George W. Carver Elementary

As an intimate K-5 school in Richmond, Virginia, George W. Carver Elementary hosts 404 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by Richmond City Public Schools.

Richmond City Public Schools runs 47 schools in total, collectively educating 20,962 students. George W. Carver Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, George W. Carver Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (89%); the rest consists of 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting George W. Carver Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 100% of students at George W. Carver Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, George W. Carver Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 60.9%; this one comes in at 18.9%, -42.1 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, census data for Richmond city shows median household income runs about $64,587, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. George W. Carver Elementary is one of 61 public schools in Richmond city (combined enrollment of about 20,253 students).

The closest other public school is Richmond Alternative School, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, George W. Carver Elementary comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 70.3%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Looking at the recent track record. George W. Carver Elementary's enrollment has shrank 17% since 2018, when it stood at 484 (now 404). Black enrollment moved from 94% to 89% across the same window.

Inside the community feed, members of the George W. Carver Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.