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Enrollment
395
Elementary
DISTRICT 446 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MUSCOGEE COUNTY·NCES 130387001450
Lonnie Jackson Academy
4601 Buena Vista Rd, Columbus, GA 31907 · (706) 565-3039 · Muscogee County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL395 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 18% of Georgia public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B+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
14.9:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
395 students
DISTRICT 89% · STATE 74%
Community
1
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 | 69 | 17% |
| Kindergarten | 63 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 56 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 52 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 53 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 53 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 49 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (63) is 29% larger than its 5th grade class (49).
Student demographics
31%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · 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
20.3%
GA avg 40.1% . +4.3pp since 2021
Math
18.4%
GA avg 44.6% . +6.6pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 20 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 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 4 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 7 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 20.3% | 18.4% |
| 2023-24 | 17.3% | 11.2% |
| 2022-23 | 11.0% | 11.6% |
| 2021-22 | 15.9% | 11.8% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
20.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 20% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Georgia's top nor bottom 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 Lonnie Jackson Academy
Lonnie Jackson Academy's state test result (20.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lonnie Jackson Academy this school | 395 | 100.0% | 20.2% |
| Georgetown Elementary School Columbus | 394 | 100.0% | 14.9% |
| Tobacco Road Elementary School Augusta | 411 | 100.0% | 15.5% |
| Monte Sano Elementary School Augusta | 410 | 100.0% | 15.9% |
| Dorothy Height Elementary School Columbus | 419 | 100.0% | 12.5% |
| Downtown Elementary Magnet Academy Columbus | 382 | 100.0% | 34.6% |
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 Lonnie Jackson Academy ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Muscogee County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 20.2% | #1,046 of 1,208 | #18 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 18.4% | #1,095 of 1,215 ▲ 91 | #18 of 32 ▲ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 20.3% | #1,006 of 1,215 ▲ 93 | #16 of 32 ▲ 6 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +5.4pp | #358 of 1,183 | #7 of 28 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 395 | #1,102 of 1,324 | #18 of 33 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.9:1 | #1,074 of 1,301 | #21 of 33 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 31.3% | #1,050 of 1,301 | #25 of 33 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #330 of 1,312 | #19 of 33 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.2% | #254 of 854 | #14 of 22 |
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
395
-9 (-2%) vs 2020
-45% since 1990-91, when it was 717
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
was 16.2:1
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 | 395 | 26.5 | 14.9:1 | 100% (395) |
| 2023-24 | 425 | 25.5 | 16.7:1 | 100% (425) |
| 2022-23 | 434 | 27.2 | 16.0:1 | 97% (419) |
| 2020-21 | 404 | 25 | 16.2:1 | 97% (390) |
| 2017-18 | 489 | 28 | 17.5:1 | 94% (462) |
| 2015-16 | 488 | 25 | 19.5:1 | 99% (485) |
| 2010-11 | 404 | 26 | 15.5:1 | 90% (363) |
| 2000-01 | 555 | 31 | 17.9:1 | 85% (472) |
| 1990-91 | 717 | 33 | 21.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lonnie Jackson Academy.
Since 2017-18: students down 19% (489 to 395); teachers down 5% (28 to 26.5).
About Lonnie Jackson Academy
Lonnie Jackson Academy is the name of a small elementary school in Columbus, Georgia. In all, 395 students attend the school in pre-K through 5. That is 35% below the average of about 605 students for elementary schools in Georgia.
Lonnie Jackson Academy belongs to Muscogee County, a district of 54 schools and 30,091 students.
The share of Black students at Lonnie Jackson Academy is 82%. Next come 7% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, and 4% White. The county population is about 47% Black. The diversity index for Lonnie Jackson Academy is 31%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
On staff are 26.5 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 14.9:1. Elementary schools in Georgia average 13.3:1, 1.6 fewer students per teacher than here. Lonnie Jackson Academy has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 100%. On average, public schools in Muscogee County report 86%.
Lonnie Jackson Academy holds a C- allk12 Grade, placing it above 18% of Georgia public elementary schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Lonnie Jackson Academy, the prediction is 25.7% and the result is 20.2%.
In the surrounding county, Muscogee County, the median household earns about $58,073 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 31%, and roughly 15% of residents are in poverty. Muscogee County has 57 public schools with about 30,110 students, including Lonnie Jackson Academy.
Rothschild Leadership Academy School, less than a tenth of a mile away, is the closest public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. On state test proficiency, Lonnie Jackson Academy ranks 3rd in a group of 9 nearby schools.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Mid-size, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Lonnie Jackson Academy had 404 students in 2020-21 and 395 in 2024-25, nearly the same. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (14.9:1) than in 2020-21 (16.2:1).
Lonnie Jackson Academy has a community page on allk12 for topics such as athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Muscogee County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
203,711
Census ACS
Median income
$58,073
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
57
30,110 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Muscogee County
- Northside High SchoolHigh · 1,405 students
- Shaw High SchoolHigh · 1,162 students
- Columbus High SchoolHigh · 1,161 students
- Hardaway High SchoolHigh · 1,067 students
- Jordan Vocational High SchoolHigh · 1,040 students
- Spencer High SchoolHigh · 1,016 students
Other schools in Columbus
- Northside High SchoolHigh · 1,405 students
- Shaw High SchoolHigh · 1,162 students
- Columbus High SchoolHigh · 1,161 students
- Hardaway High SchoolHigh · 1,067 students
- Jordan Vocational High SchoolHigh · 1,040 students
- Spencer High SchoolHigh · 1,016 students
Nearby schools
- Rothschild Leadership Academy School0.0 mi · 498
- Dimon Elementary0.9 mi · 358
- Wesley Heights Elementary School1.6 mi · 349
- Rainey McCullers School of the Arts1.6 mi · 420
- Rigdon Road Elementary School1.7 mi · 437
- St. Marys Video and Communication Technology1.7 mi · 418
Frequently asked questions
About Lonnie Jackson AcademyWhat is the total enrollment at Lonnie Jackson Academy?
Lonnie Jackson Academy enrolls approximately 395 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Lonnie Jackson Academy serve?
Lonnie Jackson Academy serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Lonnie Jackson Academy?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Lonnie Jackson Academy is approximately 14.9:1 (27 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Lonnie Jackson Academy?
At Lonnie Jackson Academy, the student body is approximately 4% White, 6% Hispanic, 82% Black, 7% Two or more.
Is Lonnie Jackson Academy public or private?
Lonnie Jackson Academy is a public K-12 school, overseen by Muscogee County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.