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If you could change one rule at Arabia Mountain High School - Academy of Engineering- Medic, what would it be?
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Enrollment
1,224
High
DISTRICT 1,183 · STATE 1,120
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DEKALB COUNTY·NCES 130174003915
Arabia Mountain High School - Academy of Engineering- Medic
6610 Browns Mill Rd, Lithonia, GA 30038 · (678) 875-3602 · DeKalb County
GRADES 09–12HIGH41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,224 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 54% of Georgia public high schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Georgia public high schools
Student : Teacher
16.8:1
73 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.8:1 · STATE 15.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
65%
798 students
DISTRICT 82% · STATE 74%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 304 | 25% |
| Grade 10 | 356 | 29% |
| Grade 11 | 293 | 24% |
| Grade 12 | 271 | 22% |
Student demographics
12%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedMath
42.9%
GA avg 44.6% . +11.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school do math at grade level. The Georgia average is about 45 of 100. Math scores are up about 12 points since 2023.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | Math |
|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 42.9% |
| 2023-24 | 31.0% |
% Proficient or Distinguished, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Georgia Milestones. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
40.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Georgia's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Arabia Mountain High School - Academy of Engineering- Medic
Arabia Mountain High School - Academy of Engineering- Medic's state test result (40.6% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabia Mountain High School - Academy of Engineering- Medic this school | 1,224 | 65.2% | 40.6% |
| Northeast High School Macon | 794 | 63.6% | 12.3% |
| Southwest High School Macon | 860 | 70.6% | 7.8% |
| Westside High School Macon | 1,013 | 61.6% | 8.0% |
| McDonough High School McDonough | 1,359 | 72.4% | 23.4% |
| Central High School Macon | 892 | 55.5% | 20.9% |
Matched among Georgia high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Arabia Mountain High School - Academy of Engineering- Medic ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In DeKalb County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.6% | #189 of 411 | #9 of 25 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.9% | #168 of 417 ▲ 78 | #5 of 25 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,224 | #203 of 480 | #14 of 29 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.8:1 | #269 of 413 | #22 of 25 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 11.9% | #404 of 413 | #24 of 25 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 65.2% | #247 of 425 | #19 of 27 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.6% | #54 of 168 | #6 of 11 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,224
-33 (-3%) vs 2020
-17% since 2010-11, when it was 1,473
Student : Teacher
16.8:1
was 15.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,224 | 73 | 16.8:1 | 65% (798) |
| 2023-24 | 1,272 | 62 | 20.5:1 | 65% (823) |
| 2022-23 | 1,184 | 66.5 | 17.8:1 | 57% (673) |
| 2020-21 | 1,257 | 81 | 15.5:1 | 51% (643) |
| 2017-18 | 1,417 | 85.5 | 16.6:1 | 51% (721) |
| 2015-16 | 1,345 | 75 | 17.9:1 | 49% (660) |
| 2010-11 | 1,473 | 88 | 16.7:1 | 50% (735) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Arabia Mountain High School - Academy of Engineering- Medic.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (1,417 to 1,224); teachers down 15% (85.5 to 73).
About Arabia Mountain High School - Academy of Engineering- Medic
Arabia Mountain High School - Academy of Engineering- Medic is classified as a high school. It is located in Lithonia, Georgia. The latest federal count shows 1,224 students in grades 9 through 12.
Besides Arabia Mountain High School - Academy of Engineering- Medic, DeKalb County runs 130 other schools. The district enrolls 92,088 students.
Arabia Mountain High School - Academy of Engineering- Medic's enrollment is 94% Black. Next come 4% Hispanic. The county population is about 51% Black. The school's diversity index is 12%, meaning two students picked at random have a 12% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Dividing enrollment by its 73 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 16.8:1. That is 1.6 students per teacher above the 15.2:1 average for high schools in Georgia. Arabia Mountain High School - Academy of Engineering- Medic reports 65% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. For comparison, public schools in DeKalb County average 77%.
Arabia Mountain High School - Academy of Engineering- Medic is graded B- by allk12, scoring above 54% of Georgia public high schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Arabia Mountain High School - Academy of Engineering- Medic would be expected to post about 43.7%. Its actual average proficiency rate on state tests is 40.6%.
County data help place the school in context: in DeKalb County, the median household income is $80,644, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 47%, and about 10% of people live in poverty. In all, DeKalb County has 154 public schools and roughly 102,960 students.
The next-closest public school is Murphey Candler Elementary School, about 0.2 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, Arabia Mountain High School - Academy of Engineering- Medic ranks 1st on average proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is Rural: Fringe: the school is in rural territory close to an urban area.
Enrollment declined 3% from its 2020-21 level of 1,257. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 15.5:1 to 16.8:1.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss school safety, transportation, and start times at Arabia Mountain High School - Academy of Engineering- Medic. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
DeKalb County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
765,351
Census ACS
Median income
$80,644
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
47%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
154
102,960 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in DeKalb County
- Lakeside High SchoolHigh · 2,234 students
- Dunwoody High SchoolHigh · 2,012 students
- Chamblee High SchoolHigh · 1,867 students
- Cross Keys High SchoolHigh · 1,748 students
- Sequoyah Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,713 students
- Tucker High SchoolHigh · 1,614 students
Other schools in Lithonia
- Lithonia High SchoolHigh · 1,547 students
- Martin Luther King- Jr. High SchoolHigh · 1,370 students
- Miller Grove High SchoolHigh · 1,073 students
- Lithonia Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,062 students
- Flat Rock Elementary SchoolElementary · 977 students
- Salem Middle SchoolMiddle · 827 students
Nearby schools
- Murphey Candler Elementary School0.2 mi · 512
- Flat Rock Elementary School1.7 mi · 977
- Salem Middle School3.0 mi · 827
- Leadership Preparatory Academy3.4 mi · 268
- Fairington Elementary School3.7 mi · 461
- Browns Mill Elementary School3.8 mi · 411
Frequently asked questions
About Arabia Mountain High School - Academy of Engineering- MedicHow large is Arabia Mountain High School - Academy of Engineering- Medic?
Arabia Mountain High School - Academy of Engineering- Medic enrolls approximately 1,224 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does Arabia Mountain High School - Academy of Engineering- Medic serve?
Arabia Mountain High School - Academy of Engineering- Medic serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many teachers does Arabia Mountain High School - Academy of Engineering- Medic have?
Arabia Mountain High School - Academy of Engineering- Medic employs 73 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.8:1.
How diverse is Arabia Mountain High School - Academy of Engineering- Medic?
Arabia Mountain High School - Academy of Engineering- Medic reports a student body of 0% White, 4% Hispanic, 94% Black, 0% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Arabia Mountain High School - Academy of Engineering- Medic?
Arabia Mountain High School - Academy of Engineering- Medic is overseen by DeKalb County in DeKalb County.
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