Lake Park Elementary School

Located at 605 Meadowlark Dr, in Albany, Georgia, Lake Park Elementary School is a close-knit K-5 school that teaches 494 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Dougherty County.

Lake Park Elementary School is one of 22 schools operated by Dougherty County, a district that serves 13,241 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lake Park Elementary School logs that the largest single group is Black, at 69% of enrollment. Other groups include 20% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, 3% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Lake Park Elementary School logs 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 85% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Dougherty County's rate of about 98%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lake Park Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.6%, the actual is 48.4%, a residual of +14.8 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Dougherty County indicate the typical household earns roughly $49,044 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 19%. In all, Dougherty County runs 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,241 students), of which Lake Park Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Westover High School, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lake Park Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 33.5%.

Lake Park Elementary School operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Lake Park Elementary School's enrollment has fell 13% since 2018, when it stood at 566 (now 494). The White share of enrollment edged down from 41% to 20% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.4:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

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