Enrollment
368
Elementary
DISTRICT 556 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DEKALB COUNTY·NCES 130174000640
Bob Mathis Elementary School
3505 Boring Rd, Decatur, GA 30034 · (678) 874-5802 · DeKalb County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL368 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
12.3:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
368 students
DISTRICT 82% · STATE 74%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 38 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 63 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 52 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 62 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 43 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 52 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 58 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (63) is 9% larger than its 5th grade class (58).
Student demographics
27%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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on published attendance-zone data from DeKalb County. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
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Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
22.4%
GA avg 40.1% . +2.6pp since 2021
Math
33.6%
GA avg 44.6% . +24.8pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 22 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 34 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 25 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 22.4% | 33.6% |
| 2023-24 | 29.3% | 22.3% |
| 2022-23 | 23.4% | 18.6% |
| 2021-22 | 19.8% | 8.8% |
% 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
27.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% 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 Bob Mathis Elementary School
Bob Mathis Elementary School's state test result (27.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bob Mathis Elementary School this school | 368 | 100.0% | 27.1% |
| Copeland Elementary School Augusta | 369 | 100.0% | 16.6% |
| Snapfinger Elementary School Decatur | 356 | 100.0% | 12.4% |
| DeKalb Brilliance Academy Decatur | 357 | 100.0% | N/A |
| Wesley Heights Elementary School Columbus | 349 | 100.0% | 18.9% |
| Scott Elementary School Thomasville | 379 | 97.6% | 20.9% |
Matched among Georgia elementary 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 Bob Mathis Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In DeKalb County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 27.1% | #882 of 1,208 | #46 of 88 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 33.6% | #774 of 1,215 ▲ 222 | #35 of 88 ▲ 18 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 22.4% | #949 of 1,215 ▼ 139 | #50 of 88 ▼ 4 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +13.7pp | #47 of 1,183 | #2 of 88 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 368 | #1,147 of 1,324 | #79 of 97 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.3:1 | #336 of 1,301 | #31 of 94 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 26.8% | #1,113 of 1,301 | #60 of 94 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #155 of 1,312 | #2 of 97 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.6% | #347 of 854 | #48 of 73 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
368
-12 (-3%) vs 2020
-28% since 1990-91, when it was 510
Student : Teacher
12.3:1
was 10.6:1
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 | 368 | 30 | 12.3:1 | 100% (368) |
| 2023-24 | 354 | 32.2 | 11.0:1 | 100% (354) |
| 2022-23 | 373 | 34 | 11.0:1 | 100% (373) |
| 2020-21 | 380 | 36 | 10.6:1 | 99% (378) |
| 2017-18 | 436 | 37.8 | 11.5:1 | 100% (436) |
| 2015-16 | 429 | 33 | 13.0:1 | 87% (373) |
| 2010-11 | 370 | 27 | 13.7:1 | 86% (317) |
| 2000-01 | 387 | 24 | 16.1:1 | 66% (254) |
| 1990-91 | 510 | 32 | 15.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bob Mathis Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (436 to 368); teachers down 21% (37.8 to 30).
About Bob Mathis Elementary School
The public elementary school Bob Mathis Elementary School is located in Decatur, Georgia. In all, 368 students attend the school in pre-K through 5. It has 39% fewer students than the average for elementary schools in Georgia (about 605).
DeKalb County oversees Bob Mathis Elementary School and 130 other schools, with 92,088 students in total.
The share of Black students at Bob Mathis Elementary School is 85%. Enrollment also includes 8% Hispanic and 5% multiracial. The school's Black share is 34 points above the 51% share among DeKalb County residents. The diversity index for Bob Mathis Elementary School is 27%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The student-to-teacher ratio at Bob Mathis Elementary School is 12.3:1, based on 30 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Georgia is 13.3:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. Bob Mathis Elementary School counts 100% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 77% for public schools in DeKalb County.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Bob Mathis Elementary School is 1.4 points above its prediction. Actual: 27.1%. Predicted: 25.7%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for DeKalb County show that the median household earns about $80,644 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 47%, and about 10% of people live in poverty. DeKalb County has 154 public schools with about 102,960 students, including Bob Mathis Elementary School.
Columbia Middle School, about 0.9 miles away, is the closest public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. By average proficiency, Bob Mathis Elementary School is 2nd among 8 schools close by.
Bob Mathis Elementary School is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels Suburb: Large.
In 2020-21, Bob Mathis Elementary School enrolled 380 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 368. Federal data show the ratio rising from 10.6:1 to 12.3:1.
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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 Decatur
- Decatur High SchoolHigh · 1,901 students
- Beacon Hill Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,285 students
- Southwest DeKalb High SchoolHigh · 1,237 students
- Druid Hills Middle SchoolMiddle · 985 students
- Columbia High SchoolHigh · 877 students
- Towers High SchoolHigh · 876 students
Nearby schools
- Columbia Middle School0.9 mi · 571
- Southwest DeKalb High School1.3 mi · 1,237
- Rainbow Elementary School1.4 mi · 337
- Chapel Hill Elementary School1.5 mi · 495
- Chapel Hill Middle School1.6 mi · 614
- Oak View Elementary1.7 mi · 685
Frequently asked questions
About Bob Mathis Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Bob Mathis Elementary School?
Bob Mathis Elementary School enrolls approximately 368 students in grades PK-05.
Is Bob Mathis Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Bob Mathis Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Bob Mathis Elementary School have?
Bob Mathis Elementary School employs 30 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.3:1.
How diverse is Bob Mathis Elementary School?
Bob Mathis Elementary School reports a student body of 1% White, 8% Hispanic, 85% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Bob Mathis Elementary School?
Bob Mathis Elementary School is overseen by DeKalb County in DeKalb County.
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