Middle · Mississippi
Carver Elementary
Free meals for allCarver Elementary, a public middle school in Indianola, Mississippi: grades 4–6, 250 students, 13.0 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Sunflower County Consolidated School District.
Size and class size
Compared with middle schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 250
- Teachers (FTE)
- 19.3
- Students per teacher
- 13.0
- Grades
- 4–6
- Middle
Fewer students per teacher than 52% of middle schools in Mississippi
Median 13.2 · 180 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 66% of middle schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 15,584 schools compared
Smaller than 79% of middle schools in Mississippi
Median 374 · 181 schools compared
Smaller than 81% of middle schools in the US
Median 524 · 16,046 schools compared
State test results
Share of students scoring proficient or above on Mississippi's tests, grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year.
Reading and writing
Mississippi: 47%36%proficient
+0.8 points from 2023–24 school year
A lower share proficient than 53% of middle schools in Mississippi
Median 37% · 181 middle schools compared
233 students tested, grades 4, 5, 6 · MAAP; proficient means Levels 4-5
Math
Mississippi: 52%43%proficient
−0.8 points from 2023–24 school year
A lower share proficient than 56% of middle schools in Mississippi
Median 47% · 181 middle schools compared
232 students tested, grades 4, 5, 6 · MAAP; proficient means Levels 4-5
Each state sets its own test and its own bar for “proficient”, so results compare only within a state. Results also follow family income closely: a school's share reflects its students' circumstances as much as its teaching.
Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.
What it offers
- Grades
- Middle · Grades 4–6
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Remote town
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Sunflower County Consolidated School District.
Location
- Address
- 404 Jefferson Street, Indianola, MS 38751
- Phone
- (662)884-1250
- City or town
- Indianola
- County
- Sunflower County
Nearby middle schools
The closest public middle schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher | Reading | Math |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Robert L Merritt Junior HighFree meals for all | 7–9 | 341 | 13.2 | 29% | 39% |
| 6–8 | 232 | 14.5 | 28% | 32% | |
O.M. McNair Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 5–8 | 305 | 13.1 | 15% | 15% |
Ruleville Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 131 | 11.2 | 33% | 51% |
Cleveland Central Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 7–8 | 423 | 16.5 | 26% | 28% |
| 6–8 | 116 | 13.6 | 30% | 39% |
Reading and Math: share of tested students proficient or above on the state's own tests (grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year). Compare only within a state.
Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
- State Assessment Data Repository (Education Data Center), 2024–25 school year. Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository v3.1.
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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