NCES CCD 2024-25 17 schools GA

Best-Resourced Schools in Valdosta, GA

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17 public K-12 schools in Valdosta from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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17
Schools
17,586
Students
42.1/100
Avg Resource Index
13.7:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Valdosta has more public-school enrollment than 91% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Valdosta sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

10 of Valdosta's 17 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 22-point gap between Scintilla Charter Academy and Valdosta High School shows the range hidden by Valdosta's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 9%
School count
Top 19%
Resource Index average
56th percentile
Teacher staffing
71st percentile

Lowndes High School accounts for 17.9% of all Valdosta public-school enrollment

That concentration means Valdosta-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Valdosta school enrollment varies 5.6× across entities

Valdosta school enrollment ranges from 565 students (lowest) to 3,152 students (highest), a spread of 2,587 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Valdosta reports 66.4% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Valdosta student-teacher ratio is 13.7:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Scintilla Charter Academy 48
2. Pine Grove Elementary School 48
3. Pine Grove Middle School 48
4. Clyattville Elementary School 48
5. Westside Elementary School 47
6. Lowndes Middle School 47
7. Moulton-Branch Elementary School 47
8. Dewar Elementary 46
9. Sallas Mahone Elementary 43
10. Lowndes High School 40
11. Valdosta Middle School 39
12. S.L. Mason Elementary School 39
13. W.G. Nunn Elementary 38
14. J. L. Lomax Elementary School 38
15. Newbern Middle School 37
16. Pinevale Elementary School 36
17. Valdosta High School 26

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Valdosta

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Dewar Elementary 69.7/100
  2. 2 Pine Grove Middle School 66.9/100
  3. 3 Clyattville Elementary School 66.8/100
  4. 4 Pine Grove Elementary School 65.4/100
  5. 5 Moulton-Branch Elementary School 64.4/100

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Which Valdosta school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Scintilla Charter Academy has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Valdosta schools in this federal-data comparison at 48/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Valdosta, GA? ▼

Valdosta has 17 public schools with a total enrollment of 17,586 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.7:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.