W.G. Nunn Elementary

W.G. Nunn Elementary is an elementary campus of sizable scale in Valdosta, Georgia, operated by Valdosta City, instructing 974 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 61% above the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 605 students.

Valdosta City runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 8,247 students. W.G. Nunn Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, W.G. Nunn Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (86%). The remainder breaks down as 6% Hispanic, 4% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 37% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 70 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Lowndes County's rate of about 80%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), W.G. Nunn Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 26.9%; this one delivers 19.0%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Lowndes County) shows that median household earnings sit near $58,541, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Lowndes County's 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,812 students), W.G. Nunn Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Newbern Middle School, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around W.G. Nunn Elementary. On composite proficiency, W.G. Nunn Elementary comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 28.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Five-year trend. W.G. Nunn Elementary's enrollment has edged down 10% since 2018, when it stood at 1,087 (now 974). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.