Mount Zion High School

Mount Zion High School is a middle-of-the-pack four-year high school in Jonesboro, Georgia, one of the schools within Clayton County. The school educates 1,232 students in grades 9 through 12.

Mount Zion High School is one of 68 schools operated by Clayton County, a district that educates 51,326 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Mount Zion High School records that Black students make up the majority at 68%. Other groups include 26% Hispanic, 3% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, Mount Zion High School has 68 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.2:1 average. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Mount Zion High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.7%, the actual is 21.0%, a residual of -4.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Clayton County indicate median household earnings sit near $59,806, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Clayton County's 73 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,156 students), Mount Zion High School is one campus in the mix.

Martha Ellen Stilwell School for the Performing Arts is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mount Zion High School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 39.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Five-year trend. Mount Zion High School's enrollment has decreased 3% since 2018, when it stood at 1,273 (now 1,232). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 19% to 26%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 18.1:1 today.

On the community side, members of the Mount Zion High School community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.