The top reported proficiency rate is 73% in Science. The lowest is 44% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Carver Middle School
Carver Middle School sat at 560 Port Gibson Street in Raymond, Mississippi, serving middle grades as part of the Hinds County School District. The school is now closed, so families looking at this profile are most likely reading it for historical context or to understand what the educational landscape in Raymond has looked like. Because the school has shuttered, there is no active enrollment to speak of, and the demographic, staffing, and program data that would normally fill out a school portrait were not available in the records we reviewed. What we do have is a final round of state assessment results from the year before closure, and those results offer a picture of where the school stood academically in its last operating year.
On Mississippi's MAAP assessment, Carver Middle's math results were a relative bright spot. In both tested grades, a clear majority of students reached proficient or above in math, with the higher grade posting the stronger showing. Science results were stronger still, with a solid majority of tested eighth graders demonstrating proficiency. These are meaningful results for a middle school, especially one serving a small town in a county-seat district, and they suggest that Carver's math and science instruction was delivering in its final year.
English language arts was softer. Fewer than half of tested students in each grade reached proficiency, with the older grade slightly behind the younger one. This is a pattern a parent would want to understand better if the school were still open, and even now it tells something about the academic mix the school carried: quantitative subjects were landing, while reading and writing were a stretch for the majority of students. We looked for trend data to see whether these results were improving or declining heading into closure, but multi-year comparability was not available, so we cannot say which direction the school was moving.
Raymond itself is a small, historic county-seat town. Publicly reported descriptions paint it as a compact community organized around a traditional town square with a Greek Revival courthouse at its center. Hinds Community College's main campus is woven into the town fabric and functions as the dominant local institution and employer. The town describes itself in terms of small-town values and charm, with churches, local shops, and restaurants concentrated near the square. Beyond that core, Raymond is largely auto-oriented, with access via the Natchez Trace Parkway and Interstate 20. It sits within the Jackson metropolitan statistical area, and some residents likely commute to Jackson for work.
The housing market around Raymond is modest by national standards but sits above the Mississippi state benchmark. Typical home values in the school's zip code are elevated relative to the broader state, though well below national levels. The area has a high housing vacancy rate, and population growth has been essentially flat to slightly declining over recent years. There is little evidence of rapid development or new subdivision pressure; heritage preservation, including Civil War battlefield land, appears to be the dominant civic trajectory. For a family considering the broader Raymond area, the housing market is relatively accessible, and the town's character is stable rather than transforming.
We searched for recent parent-relevant changes in the Hinds County School District and found little of lasting impact in available sources, so we cannot speak to specific district-level initiatives or transitions that might explain the school's closure. The absence of enrollment figures, demographic breakdowns, free-or-reduced-price lunch data, staffing ratios, course access details, and discipline records means this portrait rests on academic results and community context alone. The school's closure is the defining fact here, and any family drawing on this information should treat it as a record of what was, in a town whose educational landscape has since shifted.
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