Barack H. Obama Elementary Magnet School of Technology

Located at 3132 Clifton Church Rd SE, in Atlanta, Georgia, Barack H. Obama Elementary Magnet School of Technology is a mid-tier primary school that teaches 844 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under DeKalb County. Enrollment runs roughly 40% larger than the state mean of about 605.

DeKalb County comprises 131 schools with combined enrollment of 92,088 students; Barack H. Obama Elementary Magnet School of Technology is among them.

Demographically, Barack H. Obama Elementary Magnet School of Technology reports that nearly all students (89%) are Black. Beyond that, the school lists 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Barack H. Obama Elementary Magnet School of Technology has 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.2:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above DeKalb County's rate of about 77%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Barack H. Obama Elementary Magnet School of Technology sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.7%; this one delivers 30.6%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (DeKalb County) records that the typical household earns roughly $80,644 per year, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, DeKalb County runs 154 public schools (combined enrollment of about 102,960 students), of which Barack H. Obama Elementary Magnet School of Technology is one.

Nearest neighbor: Cedar Grove Middle School, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Barack H. Obama Elementary Magnet School of Technology comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 17.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Barack H. Obama Elementary Magnet School of Technology has shrank 11%, going from 949 students in 2018 to 844 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 in 2025.

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