Pinevale Elementary School

Pinevale Elementary School is an elementary school of average-sized scale in Valdosta, Georgia, operated by Valdosta City, educateing 565 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Valdosta City comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 8,247 students; Pinevale Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Pinevale Elementary School records that nearly all students (86%) are Black. Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 3% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Lowndes County as a whole is about 37% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Pinevale Elementary School lists 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting Pinevale Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Lowndes County (around 80%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Pinevale Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.6%, the actual is 17.8%, a residual of -9.8 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Lowndes County) logs that median household earnings sit near $58,541, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Lowndes County runs 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,812 students), of which Pinevale Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: S.L. Mason Elementary School, around 1.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pinevale Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Pinevale Elementary School at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 28.9%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 5%: 593 students in 2018 compared to 565 in 2025.

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