G W Carver Middle School

Size

G W Carver Middle School is the smallest of Waco ISD's 3 middle schools; its 723 students are 5.4% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 3.9 miles away and have a median of 522 students, so G W Carver Middle School is larger than most of them.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 7 with 246 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 233, against an average of 241 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 244 in grade 6 and 233 in grade 8.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 55.5% of enrollment, a lower share than across Waco ISD (62.5%). Black students are next, at 37.9%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

96.3% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 88.1% across Waco ISD and a median of 65.6% for Texas middle schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

G W Carver Middle School has 55.48 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 723 students would have about 50.2 teachers, so G W Carver Middle School has 5.3 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas middle schools (14.4).

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, midsize, which means it is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people. The nearest other middle school is Quinn Campus Public Middle School, 0.8 miles away in Rapoport Academy Public School. There are 5 middle schools within 5 miles and 12 within 10 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.