Carver High School

CTL-E-5770 · School · high-school · 1947–present

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07033 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5770.

Carver High School — today the George Washington Carver Military Academy — is a public Chicago high school at 13100 South Doty Avenue in the Riverdale area of the city's Far South Side, operated by Chicago Public Schools and named for scientist and educator George Washington Carver. The district established the school in 1947 to serve the families of the Altgeld Gardens housing development, which had opened nearby in 1944, and the school opened its doors on January 4, 1949, with 875 students. It is now a public four-year military high school whose teams, the Challengers, compete in the Chicago Public League. Carver's place in this graph is its basketball line: it is the high school of Cazzie Russell, the Chicago Sun-Times Boys' Player of the Year and Mr. Basketball USA in 1962, and of Tim Hardaway Sr., whose jersey the school retired in 2022. A building at the current address was completed in 1973, with renovations finished in 1995. Chicago Public Schools reporting gives enrollment of 397 students for 2022–23.

The record

• Also known as: George Washington Carver Area High School, George Washington Carver Military Academy, Carver Military Academy

Notes

STAGED 2026-10-16 (747 Program, Named Remainders & Further Gaps, Batch A) — not merged; awaits founder merge go. Gate A: PASS — no graph record under Carver High School or its later names. Peer model: Simeon Career Academy (CTL-E-5491), INST-001. Date handling shown, not blended: the district established the school in 1947 (the date the school's references carry as its founding) and the building opened to students on January 4, 1949 — both facts are carried with their distinct meanings rather than collapsed into one year. The school's present name is George Washington Carver Military Academy; the roster name 'Carver High School' is kept as the record name with the current name as an alias, matching how the graph's alumni records name it. Edges staged: has_alumnus to CTL-E-5509 (Tim Hardaway Sr.) and CTL-E-5510 (Cazzie Russell) — the two edges the Sports Bench packet documented as blocked on this missing endpoint. Map: FILLED on the sourced street address (see media). Photo: HELD. MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = FILLED (Address-based map spec on a sourced street address.) | visual_assets = HELD: No file-page-level PHOTO-001 license verification completed at staging; slot held rather than filled with an u | chart = FILLED (CTL-created timeline built only from this record's sourced facts (institutional timeline).) | video = HELD (No CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (shorts-link-map-2026-10-15.json, 233 entries, searched by name st) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio exists at staging; slot held with reason.)

Relationships

• Cazzie Russell — has alumnus
  Cazzie Russell starred at Carver High School, where he was the Chicago Sun-Times Boys' Player of the Year and Mr. Basketball USA in 1962 (graph record CTL-E-5510). The Sports Bench packet documented this has_alumnus edge (School→Person) as blocked on the missing school endpoint; this packet supplies it.
• Tim Hardaway Sr. — has alumnus
  Tim Hardaway Sr. starred at Chicago's Carver High School, which retired his jersey in 2022 (graph record CTL-E-5509). The Sports Bench packet documented this has_alumnus edge (School→Person) as blocked on the missing school endpoint; this packet supplies it.

Sources

• Wikipedia, 'Carver Military Academy' — formerly George Washington Carver Area High School; 13100 South Doty Avenue, Chicago, IL 60827; established 1947 by Chicago Public Schools to serve Altgeld Gardens families; opened January 4, 1949, with 875 students; enrollment 397 (2022–23); Challengers, Chicago Public League, accessed 2026-10-16 (build store)
• Public Building Commission of Chicago, 'George Washington Carver High School' project record — 13100 South Doty West Avenue; building completed 1973; renovations completed 1995, accessed 2026-10-16 (primary source · build store)
• CultureTechLens knowledge graph, CTL-E-5510 (Cazzie Russell) — Russell starred at Carver High School; Chicago Sun-Times Boys' Player of the Year and Mr. Basketball USA in 1962, accessed 2026-10-16 (build store)
• CultureTechLens knowledge graph, CTL-E-5509 (Tim Hardaway Sr.) — Hardaway starred at Chicago's Carver High School, which retired his jersey in 2022, accessed 2026-10-16 (build store)

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