Carteret Elementary School embraces its multi-cultural student body and encourages its students to celebrate and respect cultural differences. It offers a multiple disabilities class and a language learning disabilities class. The school also partakes in the National Geographic Bee, the Wee Deliver Writing program, Battle of the Books, the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program, a kindergarten through 6th grade summer reading program and the Kiwanis Kids program.