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Enrollment
601
Elementary
DISTRICT 725 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LOWNDES COUNTY·NCES 130339001311
Lake Park Elementary School
604 W Marion Ave, Lake Park, GA 31636 · (229) 316-8603 · Lowndes County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL601 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 87% of Georgia public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Georgia public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.1:1
50 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
94%
567 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 74%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 51 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 94 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 100 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 95 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 78 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 93 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 90 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (94) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (90).
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
44.5%
GA avg 40.1% . +1.8pp since 2021
Math
57.8%
GA avg 44.6% . -1.1pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 1 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.5% | 57.8% |
| 2023-24 | 46.3% | 57.4% |
| 2022-23 | 45.7% | 53.5% |
| 2021-22 | 42.7% | 58.9% |
% Proficient or Distinguished, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Georgia Milestones. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of GA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
53.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
28.6%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+25.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 29% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 25 points, placing it in Georgia's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Lake Park Elementary School
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Park Elementary School this school | 601 | 94.3% | 53.7% |
| Oglethorpe County Primary School Lexington | 559 | 89.4% | N/A |
| Washington Park Elementary School Monticello | 581 | 99.0% | 34.0% |
| Liberty Elementary School Toccoa | 571 | 100.0% | N/A |
| Long Cane Elementary School LaGrange | 605 | 87.8% | 53.7% |
| Jasper County Primary School Monticello | 660 | 100.0% | N/A |
Matched among Georgia elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Lake Park Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Lowndes County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.7% | #283 of 1,208 | #4 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.8% | #273 of 1,215 ▲ 18 | #5 of 12 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.5% | #368 of 1,215 ▲ 14 | #5 of 12 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.3pp | #736 of 1,183 | #8 of 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 601 | #600 of 1,324 | #9 of 12 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.1:1 | #301 of 1,301 | #3 of 12 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.4% | #727 of 1,301 | #6 of 12 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 94.3% | #533 of 1,312 | #6 of 11 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.1% | #275 of 854 | #1 of 11 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
601
-71 (-11%) vs 2020
-28% since 1990-91, when it was 831
Student : Teacher
12.1:1
was 13.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 601 | 49.5 | 12.1:1 | 94% (567) |
| 2023-24 | 636 | 48.5 | 13.1:1 | 69% (440) |
| 2022-23 | 643 | 49 | 13.1:1 | 72% (461) |
| 2020-21 | 672 | 50 | 13.4:1 | 72% (482) |
| 2017-18 | 734 | 47.5 | 15.4:1 | 62% (457) |
| 2015-16 | 695 | 44 | 15.8:1 | 66% (457) |
| 2010-11 | 706 | 47 | 15.0:1 | 55% (391) |
| 2000-01 | 599 | 37 | 16.2:1 | 39% (234) |
| 1990-91 | 831 | 50 | 16.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lake Park Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (734 to 601); teachers up 4% (47.5 to 49.5).
About Lake Park Elementary School
In Lake Park, Georgia, part of Lowndes County, Lake Park Elementary School is an elementary school. Its 601 students are spread across pre-K through 5.
Lowndes County includes 11 schools. Together they enroll 10,618 students.
A majority of students at Lake Park Elementary School, 66%, are White. Other reported shares: 17% Black, 10% Hispanic, and 6% multiracial. Lowndes County's residents are about 53% White, 13 points below the school's share. The chance that two students picked at random at Lake Park Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 52%.
The school has about 12.1 students per teacher and 49.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. That ratio is under the 13.3:1 average for elementary schools in Georgia. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 94%. That rate is above the 80% average among public schools in Lowndes County.
allk12 grades Lake Park Elementary School an A. The grade compares the school only with Georgia public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
On allk12's BeatsExpectations measure, Lake Park Elementary School is among the top 10% of schools in Georgia. Predicted: 28.6%. Actual: 53.7%.
Within Lowndes County, median household income is about $58,541, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 28%, and roughly 14% of residents are in poverty. The public schools of Lowndes County number 20 and enroll about 19,812.
Nearest public school: Clyattville Elementary School, about 7.8 miles away. Other public schools within ten miles: 6. On average proficiency, Lake Park Elementary School is 1st of 8 nearby schools with test data.
NCES describes the area around Lake Park Elementary School as Rural: Distant, meaning in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
Lake Park Elementary School had 672 students in 2020-21 and 601 in 2024-25, an 11% decrease. Its ratio of students to teachers was 13.4:1 in 2020-21, and 12.1:1 in 2024-25.
Topics for discussion here include sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Lowndes County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
119,965
Census ACS
Median income
$58,541
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
14%
Below federal line
Schools in county
20
19,812 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lowndes County
- Lowndes High SchoolHigh · 3,152 students
- Westside Elementary SchoolElementary · 904 students
- Hahira Middle SchoolMiddle · 843 students
- Dewar ElementaryElementary · 821 students
- Lowndes Middle SchoolMiddle · 818 students
- Hahira Elementary SchoolElementary · 782 students
Other Lake Park Elementary schools
5 other US public schools in 4 states are named Lake Park Elementary. Lake Park Elementary School is the largest of the 6.
- Lake Park Elementary SchoolAlbany, GA · 494 students
- LAKE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLNAPLES, FL · 475 students
- LAKE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLLAKE PARK, FL · 389 students
- Lake Park Elementary SchoolBethany, OK · 335 students
- Lake Park Elementary SchoolAddison, IL · 294 students
Nearby schools
- Clyattville Elementary School7.8 mi · 614
- Lowndes Middle School8.5 mi · 818
- Moulton-Branch Elementary School9.3 mi · 594
- Echols County Elementary/Middle School9.6 mi · 673
- Echols County High School9.6 mi · 244
- J. L. Lomax Elementary School9.8 mi · 576
Frequently asked questions
About Lake Park Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Lake Park Elementary School?
Lake Park Elementary School enrolls approximately 601 students in grades PK-05.
Is Lake Park Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Lake Park Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Lake Park Elementary School have?
Lake Park Elementary School employs 50 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.1:1.
What is the student diversity at Lake Park Elementary School?
Student demographics at Lake Park Elementary School are roughly 66% White, 10% Hispanic, 17% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Lake Park Elementary School in?
Lake Park Elementary School is part of Lowndes County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.