Pine Grove Middle School

Pine Grove Middle School is a reasonably sized middle school in Valdosta, Georgia, one of the schools within Lowndes County. The school teaches 733 students in grades 6 through 8.

Lowndes County comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 10,618 students; Pine Grove Middle School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Pine Grove Middle School records that the most-represented group is White (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 32% Black, 14% Hispanic, 7% multiracial.

On the resource side, On paper, Pine Grove Middle School has 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.1:1 average. An estimated 71% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Lowndes County's rate of about 80%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Pine Grove Middle 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 40.4%; Pine Grove Middle School posts 56.5%, +16.1 points above that line.

In the broader community, census data for Lowndes County shows the typical household earns roughly $58,541 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across Lowndes County's 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,812 students), Pine Grove Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Pine Grove Elementary School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Pine Grove Middle School. On composite proficiency, Pine Grove Middle School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 41.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. Pine Grove Middle School's enrollment has shrank 4% since 2018, when it stood at 764 (now 733). White enrollment moved from 53% to 45% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.

Inside the community feed, the feed for Pine Grove Middle School typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.