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Enrollment
614
Middle
DISTRICT 857 · STATE 763
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DEKALB COUNTY·NCES 130174000083
Chapel Hill Middle School
3535 Dogwood Farm Rd, Decatur, GA 30034 · (678) 676-8502 · DeKalb County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL614 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 20% of Georgia public middle schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- DThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Georgia public middle schools
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.2:1 · STATE 14.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
614 students
DISTRICT 82% · STATE 74%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 198 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 204 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 212 | 35% |
Student demographics
17%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
Chapel Hill Middle School→Southwest DeKalb High School
Feeds from
Based on published attendance-zone data from DeKalb County. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
21.3%
GA avg 40.1% . -7.6pp since 2021
Math
21.6%
GA avg 44.6% . +4.6pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 21 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are down about 8 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 5 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 21.3% | 21.6% |
| 2023-24 | 26.5% | 18.2% |
| 2022-23 | 28.9% | 18.8% |
| 2021-22 | 28.9% | 16.9% |
% 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
23.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 24% 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 Chapel Hill Middle School
Chapel Hill Middle School's state test result (23.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chapel Hill Middle School this school | 614 | 100.0% | 23.9% |
| Columbia Middle School Decatur | 571 | 100.0% | 12.1% |
| Ralph Bunche Middle School Atlanta | 651 | 100.0% | 19.2% |
| Cedar Grove Middle School Decatur | 685 | 100.0% | 13.8% |
| Miller Grove Middle School Decatur | 625 | 100.0% | 12.7% |
| Richmond Hill Middle School Augusta | 667 | 100.0% | 6.3% |
Matched among Georgia middle 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 Chapel Hill Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In DeKalb County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 23.9% | #362 of 470 | #13 of 23 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 21.6% | #378 of 474 ▲ 2 | #14 of 23 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 21.3% | #394 of 474 ▼ 31 | #14 of 23 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.5pp | #41 of 465 | #1 of 23 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 614 | #320 of 487 | #19 of 23 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.6:1 | #195 of 471 | #10 of 23 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 16.8% | #451 of 471 | #20 of 23 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #47 of 479 | #1 of 23 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.8% | #52 of 305 | #5 of 13 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
614
-181 (-23%) vs 2020
-47% since 2000-01, when it was 1,168
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
was 14.7:1
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 | 614 | 45 | 13.6:1 | 100% (614) |
| 2023-24 | 619 | 44.5 | 13.9:1 | 93% (576) |
| 2022-23 | 692 | 46.5 | 14.9:1 | 100% (692) |
| 2020-21 | 795 | 54 | 14.7:1 | 71% (566) |
| 2017-18 | 775 | 55.5 | 14.0:1 | 81% (629) |
| 2015-16 | 777 | 51 | 15.2:1 | 77% (601) |
| 2010-11 | 1,029 | 70 | 14.7:1 | 74% (761) |
| 2000-01 | 1,168 | 71 | 16.4:1 | 60% (700) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Chapel Hill Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 21% (775 to 614); teachers down 19% (55.5 to 45).
About Chapel Hill Middle School
At 3535 Dogwood Farm Rd in Decatur, Georgia, Chapel Hill Middle School operates as a small middle-grades school. The school teaches grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 614 students.
Chapel Hill Middle School is one school in a 131-school district, DeKalb County, which enrolls 92,088 students.
The share of Black students at Chapel Hill Middle School is 91%. Other groups include 4% Hispanic and 2% multiracial. The county population is about 51% Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Chapel Hill Middle School scores 17%.
The school lists 45 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.6:1. That is in line with the 14.1:1 average for middle schools in Georgia. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 100% of the student body. It compares with 77% for public schools in DeKalb County.
On the allk12 Grade, Chapel Hill Middle School lands at C-, ahead of 20% of Georgia public middle schools.
Chapel Hill Middle School posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 23.9%, compared with a predicted 25.7%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Georgia schools on BeatsExpectations.
In the wider DeKalb County area, median household income comes to about $80,644, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of people live in poverty. DeKalb County's 154 public schools enroll about 102,960 students and include Chapel Hill Middle School.
About 0.2 miles separate Chapel Hill Middle School from the closest public school, Chapel Hill Elementary School. The five-mile area around Chapel Hill Middle School holds at least 8 other public schools. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Chapel Hill Middle School at 3rd of 8.
In the federal locale system, Chapel Hill Middle School is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2020-21, Chapel Hill Middle School enrolled 795 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 614. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (13.6:1) than in 2020-21 (14.7:1).
Use the discussion section to ask about homework, tutoring, and testing dates at Chapel Hill Middle School. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
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
Other Chapel Hill Middle schools
One other US public school is named Chapel Hill Middle. Chapel Hill Middle School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Chapel Hill Middle SchoolDouglasville, GA · 1,036 students
Nearby schools
- Chapel Hill Elementary School0.2 mi · 495
- Narvie Harris Elementary School1.1 mi · 535
- Browns Mill Elementary School1.5 mi · 411
- Bob Mathis Elementary School1.6 mi · 368
- Southwest DeKalb High School1.6 mi · 1,237
- Martin Luther King- Jr. High School1.6 mi · 1,370
Frequently asked questions
About Chapel Hill Middle SchoolHow large is Chapel Hill Middle School?
Chapel Hill Middle School enrolls approximately 614 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Chapel Hill Middle School serve?
Chapel Hill Middle School serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Chapel Hill Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Chapel Hill Middle School is approximately 13.6:1 (45 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Chapel Hill Middle School?
Student demographics at Chapel Hill Middle School are roughly 1% White, 4% Hispanic, 91% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Chapel Hill Middle School in?
Chapel Hill Middle School is part of DeKalb County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.