Cedar Grove Elementary School

Located at 2330 River Rd, in Ellenwood, Georgia, Cedar Grove Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus that serves 531 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by DeKalb County.

Across the 131 schools in DeKalb County (92,088 students total), Cedar Grove Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Cedar Grove Elementary School records that 88% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest comes out to 7% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, DeKalb County as a whole is about 51% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above DeKalb County's rate of about 77%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Cedar Grove Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.7%, the actual is 19.4%, a residual of -6.3 points.

Around the school, DeKalb County reports that median household income runs about $80,644, roughly 47% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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), Cedar Grove Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Cedar Grove High School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Cedar Grove Elementary School comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 17.2%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 11%: 600 students in 2018 compared to 531 in 2025.

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