Public school / Primary
J. L. Lomax Elementary School
Valdosta, Georgia
- NCES ID
- 130531001728
- District
- Valdosta City
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
J. L. Lomax Elementary School is a public primary school in Valdosta, Georgia, run by Valdosta City. It enrols 596 students — the 27158th largest of 2,332 public schools in Georgia.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
596
Teachers
47.0
Students per teacher
12.7
Free or reduced-price lunch
91.9%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Valdosta City
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Valdosta High School2,381 students
- 2Sallas Mahone Elementary1,078 students
- 3Valdosta Middle School1,060 students
- 4W.G. Nunn Elementary901 students
- 5S.L. Mason Elementary School887 students
- 6Newbern Middle School806 students
- 7J. L. Lomax Elementary School596 students
- 8Pinevale Elementary School582 students
- Enrollment−9.7%
- Teachers+2.2%
- Students per teacher−11.2%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+34.1%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory