Pine Grove Elementary School

Pine Grove Elementary School operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in Valdosta, Georgia, part of Lowndes County. Current enrollment sits at 756 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Pine Grove Elementary School sits 25% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Lowndes County, which oversees 11 schools and 10,618 students, Pine Grove Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Pine Grove Elementary School records that the largest single group is White at 49%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 29% Black, 12% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. Compared to Lowndes County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 78% of students at Pine Grove Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Pine Grove Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Georgia public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 37.2%; Pine Grove Elementary School posts 56.5%, +19.3 points above that line.

Around the school, Lowndes County reports that the typical household earns roughly $58,541 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across Lowndes County's 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,812 students), Pine Grove Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Pine Grove Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pine Grove Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 41.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pine Grove Elementary School has fell 3%, going from 777 students in 2018 to 756 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 23% to 29% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.

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