Mary A Buckner Academy

As an average-sized K-5 school in Columbus, Georgia, Mary A Buckner Academy works with 789 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of Muscogee County. That puts it 30% above the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 605 students.

Muscogee County runs 54 schools in total, collectively educating 30,091 students. Mary A Buckner Academy is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Mary A Buckner Academy records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (84%). Beyond that, the school records 6% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 3% White. By comparison, Muscogee County as a whole is about 47% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.7:1. 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. By comparison, Muscogee County runs at roughly 86%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, Muscogee County reports that median household earnings sit near $58,073, 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), Mary A Buckner Academy is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Dawson Elementary School, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mary A Buckner Academy.

Mary A Buckner Academy operates from an inner-city location.

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