Best Public Schools in Carver, MN

Carver, Minnesota has two schools in this data set, both classified as elementary, together enrolling about 796 students. Carver Elementary School is a K–5 school with 782 students in the highly rated Eastern Carver County Public School district, while SW Metro East Union Level 4 is a K–8 program with only 14 students in Southwest Metro Intermediate 288. Carver Elementary accounts for roughly 98% of the students in this two-school list. The area summary shows no middle or high schools, so families with older students likely rely on schools outside this list.

Carver Elementary is the clear academic standout. Its district ranks 30 of 458, at the 93rd percentile with 5 stars, and the school itself jumped from the 60th–62nd percentile range with 3 stars in 2023–2024 and 2024–2025 to the 75th percentile with 4 stars in 2025–2026. In 2025–2026 all-grade results, it beat the state in every reported subject: math 63.4% vs 62.5% district and 44.9% state; reading 56.8% vs 62.6% district and 48.6% state; science 35.7% vs 29.9% district and 25.5% state. Reading is its relative weak spot locally — 5th grade reading is 55% at the school vs 68.4% in the district. Proficiency also rose year over year in math, reading, and science.

SW Metro East Union Level 4 looks like a very different setting: 14 students, a student-teacher ratio of 2.8 versus 17.5 at Carver Elementary, and 42.86% free/reduced lunch versus 22.51%. Its test data are sparse — science is suppressed at the school level in both years, and grade-level scores are suppressed — and reported all-grade results are far below state averages. With so few students, these percentages are highly volatile, and many values are unknown, so the two schools are not directly comparable.