Carver Middle, Orlando FL - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Carver Middle

Carver Middle sits on West Columbia Street in Orlando's west side, a regular public school serving grades six through eight within Orange County Public Schools. The neighborhood around it is part of the broader Orlando fabric: car-dependent, working-class in character, and geographically removed from the tourist corridor to the southwest and the walkable downtown core to the east. The school draws from a community where a large majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which places it among the more economically concentrated campuses in any urban district.

The student body is predominantly Black, with a smaller share of Hispanic students and very small numbers of other groups. No data was available on English learner rates or the share of students with individualized education programs, so parents of students in those populations may want to ask the school directly about services and staffing.

On Florida's FAST assessments, Carver Middle's proficiency rates sit below the midpoint for Orange County districts across every tested subject and grade. In math, sixth and seventh graders are reaching proficiency at rates well below half, though eighth graders fare somewhat better. ELA results are similarly modest across all three grade levels, with seventh and eighth graders reaching proficiency at rates under a third. Science, tested only at eighth grade via the Florida Statewide Science Assessment, lands below the math figures for that grade. Taken together, when Carver's overall proficiency index is placed relative to other districts in Orange County, it falls in the bottom quartile of that comparison set. These are the reported 2024-25 numbers; trend data was not available, so it is not possible to say from this data whether the school is improving, stable, or declining. Parents considering this school may want to ask the administration directly about academic support structures and any targeted intervention programs in place.

No program information was provided in the data, so specific course offerings, electives, enrichment activities, or extracurricular programming could not be assessed.

Carver is a mid-sized middle school for its grade band. The enrollment is spread fairly evenly across the three grades.

On the housing side, the zip code covering this part of Orlando shows home values well below the Florida state median and below the national median as well, and values have moved down modestly year over year. Rents in the area have held roughly flat. For families looking to buy near the school, the local price-to-income ratio still presents a stretch at current mortgage rates, but the area is meaningfully more affordable than much of metro Orlando. Renters currently pay less monthly than an equivalent mortgage would cost, which is an unusual position in many Florida markets right now.

Orlando as a city is in an active growth period. Creative Village downtown, the opening of a major new theme park, and airport expansion are all reshaping employment and development patterns. The west side of Orlando, where Carver sits, is not the center of that investment energy, but the broader labor market anchored by healthcare, tourism, education, and aerospace creates a wide range of employment for families in the area.

For the Orange County district itself, the district brief search turned up no confirmed parent-relevant policy or program changes, so that section was left out rather than speculated about.

Carver Middle is a school where the academic numbers are a real consideration, and a parent should go in with clear eyes about the proficiency picture and a plan to ask the school specific questions about how students who are behind grade level are supported. The affordability of the surrounding neighborhood may be a draw for families, and the school's location within a large urban district means access to district-level resources. What those resources look like at Carver specifically, the data here does not tell us.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 638%

School 38% · District 60% · ▼ 22 pts below district

▼ 24 pts below state median · ▼ 17 pts below county median

Grade 724%

School 24% · District 39% · ▼ 15 pts below district

▼ 25 pts below state median · ▼ 14 pts below county median

Grade 848%

School 48% · District 63% · ▼ 15 pts below district

▼ 3 pts below state median · ▼ 11 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 644%

School 44% · District 59% · ▼ 15 pts below district

▼ 16 pts below state median · ▼ 14 pts below county median

Grade 731%

School 31% · District 55% · ▼ 24 pts below district

▼ 24 pts below state median · ▼ 24 pts below county median

Grade 831%

School 31% · District 53% · ▼ 22 pts below district

▼ 23 pts below state median · ▼ 22 pts below county median

Science

Grade 830%

School 30% · District 52% · ▼ 22 pts below district

▼ 16 pts below state median · ▼ 18 pts below county median

This schoolORANGE, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 6Lower-income46%Higher-income38%8 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income27%Higher-income42%15 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income30%Higher-income37%8 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 6Lower-income40%Higher-income32%8 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income24%Higher-income23%1 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income52%Higher-income34%17 pp gap