The reported proficiency rate for English language arts is 14%.
Original Research by School Decision on George Washington Carver Elem
George Washington Carver Elementary is a regular public school in St. Louis, serving children from prekindergarten through fifth grade. It is not a charter school, and no magnet or Title I designation is listed in the data available. The school is part of the St. Louis City district.
The student body is small for an elementary serving seven grade levels. Enrollment is concentrated in the early and middle grades, with a roughly even distribution across each year. Nearly every student is Black, and the remaining share is Hispanic. Every student in the school qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting the economic circumstances of the surrounding neighborhood.
Missouri administers the MAP assessment in math, English language arts, and science to students in the tested grades. At Carver, the vast majority of those results are suppressed by the state, a practice intended to protect student privacy when the number of test-takers in a group is very low. Because the school is small, most proficiency rates for individual grades and subjects cannot be publicly reported. The single exception is fifth-grade English language arts, where the reported proficiency rate places the school in a low range. For math and science, no grade-level results are available to the public, and the same suppression applies to participation rates and proficient counts across the board.
Taking what can be measured, the school’s overall proficiency across all tested subjects and grades falls in the bottom quartile relative to districts in St. Louis city. There are no data on chronic absenteeism, discipline, staffing ratios, or course access, so a full picture of the school environment is not possible from the records provided. Because Carver is an elementary school, there is no graduation rate to consider.
St. Louis is an independent city with a varied mix of residential and commercial areas. Its economy draws on service, manufacturing, trade, transportation, and aviation, and it hosts major employers such as the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and Barnes-Jewish Hospital, as well as research universities including Washington University in St. Louis and Saint Louis University. Forest Park, the Gateway Arch, the Saint Louis Zoo, and the Saint Louis Art Museum are among the city’s prominent civic and cultural anchors. The city’s political boundaries were set decades ago when it separated from St. Louis County, and its population has shifted over time.
For a family considering this school, the most concrete finding is that academic performance data is very limited. The one published ELA result is low, and overall proficiency sits among the weakest in the city district comparison set. A parent may want to visit the school, speak with the principal and teachers about how reading and math instruction are delivered, and ask about the supports in place for students who are below grade level. The school’s small size could mean more individual attention, but the available numbers do not confirm that. The broader city offers substantial cultural and economic resources, but the immediate neighborhood context for this school is not described in the data. Carver is a neighborhood elementary that serves a population facing significant economic disadvantage, and its academic record, as far as it can be seen, points to challenges that a family should investigate further directly with the school.
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