Massachusetts public school district

Carver

1 high school and 1 elementary school in our rankings · serves Carver

C+

overall grade

Ranks #198 of 328 Massachusetts school districts.

Overall rank

#198

of 328 districts

MCAS ELA

33%

State 40% in the same grades

MCAS Math

36%

State 41% in the same grades

Spending per student

$20,750

MA median $21,765

MCAS is the share of students meeting or exceeding expectations in 2026, grades 3–10 combined. Spending is total per-pupil expenditure in FY2024.

Carver is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, located roughly 40 miles south of Boston and bordering the Plymouth-area towns of the South Shore. The Carver Public Schools serve the town's students through a single consolidated campus, Carver Middle/High School. Carver is largely residential and semi-rural in character, with a mix of wooded and lake-dotted landscape, and it is home to Myles Standish State Forest, one of the largest publicly accessible forests in Massachusetts. The town's single-family assessed values and per capita income sit in the middle range for the state's towns.

How it compares

What stands out

Strongest area: Graduation rate, in the top 49% of districts. 94.9% of high school students graduate in four years, vs 92.4% for the average MA district.
Area to watch: Math MCAS ranks in the bottom 27% of districts.
Trend: Chronic absence has fallen from 27.7% in 2022 to 14% in 2025.

Where it stands among Massachusetts school districts

Bottom of MATop of MA

Overall

Averagebottom 40% · #198

SAT

Below averagebottom 29% · #209

ELA MCAS

Below averagebottom 30% · #230

Math MCAS

Below averagebottom 27% · #239

AP results

Averagetop 50% · #139

Graduation

Averagetop 49% · #141

Attendance

Averagebottom 45% · #184

A district's overall rank is the average statewide percentile of its ranked schools, with a 10% discount for single-school districts. Category standings compare the average of each district's ranked schools and count only districts with data. How we rank

Schools in Carver

High schools · ranked among 335

Carver Middle/High School

Carver

C+

#206 in MASAT 1075Graduation 95%

Elementary schools · ranked among 895

Carver Elementary School

Carver

C+

#494 in MAELA 36%Math 37%

We rank high schools that report SAT results and elementary schools with grade 3 MCAS results, so some of the district's schools (middle schools, for example) aren't listed. Elementary ELA and Math are 2024–2026 averages of grade 3 results.

MCAS results

Share of students meeting or exceeding expectations, compared with the state. Statewide 10th-grade results dropped after 2024, when passing the MCAS stopped being a graduation requirement. There was no test in 2020.

English Language Arts, grades 3–1033%in 2026 · state 40%

7 points below the state

Math, grades 3–1036%in 2026 · state 41%

6 points below the state

By grade, 2026 · the black tick marks the state

GradeELAMath

Grade 3

33%−10 vs state

31%−11 vs state

Grade 4

34%−3 vs state

49%+6 vs state

Grade 5

30%−8 vs state

42%+3 vs state

Grade 6

28%−12 vs state

25%−18 vs state

Grade 7

41%+1 vs state

39%+2 vs state

Grade 8

25%−17 vs state

30%−12 vs state

Grade 10

40%−5 vs state

30%−14 vs state

Science, 2026

Grade 5 science

39%−4 vs state

Grade 8 science

43%+4 vs state

High school results

Average SATWorse than average

This district

1075

MA avg

1113

AP exams scored 3+About average

This district

74.1%

MA avg

69.1%

Four-year graduation rateBetter than average

This district

94.9%

MA avg

92.4%

Averages of the district's ranked high schools (Carver Middle/High School). "MA avg" is the average of all Massachusetts districts with high school data.

Students & classrooms

Classrooms

Students in classes1,485

Average class size15.2MA avg 17.3

Who attends

White

88.3%

Hispanic/Latino

4.5%

Multi-Race

4.1%

Black/African American

2.2%

Asian

0.7%

American Indian/Alaska Native

0.3%

49.2% female · 50.8% male · 0.1% nonbinary

Student needs

English learnersLower than average

This district

MA avg

8.5%

Students with disabilitiesHigher than average

This district

22.8%

MA avg

20.2%

Spending & teachers

Spending per student$20.7Kin FY2024 · MA median $21.8K

$1,015 below the MA median

Teacher salary$85.8Kin 2023-24 · MA median $91.4K

$5,563 below the MA median

Teachers who stayedfrom last yearBetter than average

This district

87.8%

MA avg

84.7%

Principals who stayedfrom last yearBetter than average

This district

100%

MA avg

82%

Spending is total per-pupil expenditure from all sources. Dollar figures aren't adjusted for inflation. "MA median" is the middle district in each year; small districts can spend far more per student, so the median is a fairer yardstick than the average. Salary is the average across 127 full-time-equivalent teachers.

Attendance

Attendance rateAbout average

This district

94%

MA avg

93.7%

Chronically absentmissed 10%+ of daysBetter than average

This district

14%

MA avg

16.9%

10.5 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 2.2% missed 20% or more of school days

About Carver

Plymouth County · South Shore

Avg single-family home value$547KMA median $588K

Avg property tax bill$7,448MA median $6,814

Tax rate$13.60 per $1,000MA median $12.40

Income per person$39,725MA median $47,872

Local kids in public school94.7%

Town bond ratingAA

Free cash reserves4.9% of budget

Where school-age children in Carver go to school · 2024-2025

Local public schools

83.7%

Vocational schools

Charter schools

4.3%

Private schools

3.2%

Home school

2.1%

Other public schools

0.7%

What could you afford here? · All towns A–Z

Town figures are FY2026 averages for single-family homes from the Massachusetts Department of Revenue. Assessed values usually run below recent sale prices. "MA median" is the median of the state's 351 towns.

Compare Carver with nearby districts

Carver vs Middleborough#141B- · 6 mi Carver vs Plymouth#118B · 7 mi Carver vs Silver Lake#68B+ · 8 mi Carver vs Wareham#219C+ · 8 mi Carver vs Bridgewater-Raynham#169B- · 15 mi

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