Cedar Grove Middle School

Cedar Grove Middle School is an intermediate school of reasonably sized scale in Decatur, Georgia, operated by DeKalb County, instructing 685 students in grades 6 through 8.

DeKalb County runs 131 schools in total, collectively educating 92,088 students. Cedar Grove Middle School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Cedar Grove Middle School shows that nearly all students (90%) are Black. The remainder comes out to 7% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 51% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Cedar Grove Middle School has 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against DeKalb County (around 77%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Cedar Grove Middle 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 13.8%, a residual of -11.9 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for DeKalb County put median household earnings sit near $80,644, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Cedar Grove Middle School is one of 154 public schools in DeKalb County (combined enrollment of about 102,960 students).

Nearest neighbor: Barack H. Obama Elementary Magnet School of Technology, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Cedar Grove Middle School at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 19.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cedar Grove Middle School has shrank 9%, going from 749 students in 2018 to 685 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 95% to 90% across the same window.

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