S.L. Mason Elementary School

S.L. Mason Elementary School operates as a moderately sized elementary campus in Valdosta, Georgia, part of Valdosta City. Current enrollment sits at 881 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so S.L. Mason Elementary School sits 46% larger than that benchmark.

Valdosta City runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 8,247 students. S.L. Mason Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, S.L. Mason Elementary School logs that the largest single group is Black, at 68% of enrollment. Other groups include 13% Hispanic, 11% White, 6% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 37%.

On the resource side, On paper, S.L. Mason Elementary School has 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.1:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 98% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Lowndes County (around 80%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, S.L. Mason Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 26.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 22.5%.

In the area at large, 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 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 S.L. Mason Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Lowndes High School, around 1.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, S.L. Mason Elementary School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 36.9%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Over the past 7-year window. S.L. Mason Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 4% since 2018, when it stood at 919 (now 881). The White share of enrollment edged down from 16% to 11% over that span.

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