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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / High

Valdosta High School

Valdosta, Georgia

NCES ID
130531001732
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Valdosta High School is a public high school in Valdosta, Georgia, run by Valdosta City. It enrols 2,381 students — the 913th largest of 2,332 public schools in Georgia.

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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

2,381students

913th nationally, tied with 4

Teachers

146.0FTE

639th nationally, tied with 14

Students per teacher

16.3students

59154th nationally, tied with 851

Free or reduced-price lunch

94.7%percent

9014th nationally, tied with 83

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.

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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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Valdosta High School2,381 students
  2. 2Sallas Mahone Elementary1,078 students
  3. 3Valdosta Middle School1,060 students
  4. 4W.G. Nunn Elementary901 students
  5. 5S.L. Mason Elementary School887 students
  6. 6Newbern Middle School806 students
  7. 7J. L. Lomax Elementary School596 students
  8. 8Pinevale Elementary School582 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Georgia median across 2,332 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment+260.8%
  • Teachers+217.4%
  • Students per teacher+14.0%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+38.1%
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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
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.