Carver Academy

Located at 1900 N 1st St, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Carver Academy is a moderately sized elementary campus that caters to 324 students (grades pre-K through 8), part of Milwaukee School District.

Milwaukee School District runs 155 schools in total, collectively educating 65,835 students. Carver Academy is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Carver Academy logs that nearly all students (93%) are Black. The remainder comes out to 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 26% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 94% of students at Carver Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Milwaukee County runs at roughly 64%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Carver Academy sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 19.7%; this one delivers 11.0%.

Around the school, census data for Milwaukee County shows median household income runs about $64,435, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Milwaukee County's 284 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students), Carver Academy is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Golda Meir School, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Carver Academy at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 18.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 22%: 415 students in 2018 compared to 324 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 22.8:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 in 2025.

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