Bob Mathis Elementary School

Located at 3505 Boring Rd, in Decatur, Georgia, Bob Mathis Elementary School is an intimate primary school that hosts 368 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by DeKalb County. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Bob Mathis Elementary School sits 39% leaner than that benchmark.

DeKalb County comprises 131 schools with combined enrollment of 92,088 students; Bob Mathis Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Bob Mathis Elementary School shows that 85% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest breaks down as 8% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, DeKalb County as a whole is about 51% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Bob Mathis Elementary School has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. Roughly 100% of students at Bob Mathis Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, DeKalb County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Bob Mathis Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 27.1%.

Across the wider county, census data for DeKalb County shows the typical household earns roughly $80,644 per year, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across DeKalb County's 154 public schools (combined enrollment of about 102,960 students), Bob Mathis Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Columbia Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Bob Mathis Elementary School at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 23.7%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 16%: 436 students in 2018 compared to 368 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share fell from 97% to 85%.

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