Lonnie Jackson Academy

Set in Columbus, Georgia, Lonnie Jackson Academy is a cozy elementary school, one of the schools within Muscogee County. It caters to 395 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 35% leaner than the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 605 students.

Muscogee County comprises 54 schools with combined enrollment of 30,091 students; Lonnie Jackson Academy is among them.

On demographics, Lonnie Jackson Academy logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (82%). Other groups include 7% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 4% White. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 47%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Muscogee County's rate of about 86%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lonnie Jackson Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.7%, the actual is 20.2%, a residual of -5.5 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Muscogee County) records that the typical household earns roughly $58,073 per year, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Muscogee County's 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,110 students), Lonnie Jackson Academy is one campus in the mix.

Rothschild Leadership Academy School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lonnie Jackson Academy. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lonnie Jackson Academy ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 20.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 19%: 489 students in 2018 compared to 395 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.

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