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Enrollment
364
Elementary
DISTRICT 556 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DEKALB COUNTY·NCES 130174000652
Columbia Elementary School
3230 Columbia Woods Dr, Decatur, GA 30032 · (678) 874-0702 · DeKalb County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL364 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 9% of Georgia public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B-Three-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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.4:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
364 students
DISTRICT 82% · STATE 74%
Community
1
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 | 55 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 56 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 44 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 53 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 69 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 49 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (55) is 12% larger than its 5th grade class (49).
Student demographics
20%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.
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
13.1%
GA avg 40.1% . -1.3pp since 2021
Math
19.1%
GA avg 44.6% . +6.5pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 13 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 19 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 1 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 6 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 13.1% | 19.1% |
| 2023-24 | 17.7% | 17.8% |
| 2022-23 | 11.9% | 18.9% |
| 2021-22 | 14.4% | 12.6% |
% 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
16.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 16% 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 Columbia Elementary School
Columbia Elementary School's state test result (16.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia Elementary School this school | 364 | 100.0% | 16.2% |
| Lamar - Milledge Elementary School Augusta | 366 | 100.0% | 16.6% |
| DeKalb Brilliance Academy Decatur | 357 | 100.0% | N/A |
| Wesley Heights Elementary School Columbus | 349 | 100.0% | 18.9% |
| Continental Colony Elementary School Atlanta | 368 | 100.0% | 19.5% |
| The Kindezi School Atlanta | 360 | 100.0% | 20.5% |
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 Columbia Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In DeKalb County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 16.2% | #1,126 of 1,208 | #77 of 88 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 19.1% | #1,081 of 1,215 ▲ 3 | #66 of 88 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 13.1% | #1,170 of 1,215 ▼ 75 | #83 of 88 ▼ 9 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.6pp | #557 of 1,183 | #50 of 88 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 364 | #1,158 of 1,324 | #80 of 97 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.4:1 | #60 of 1,301 | #8 of 94 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 20.4% | #1,194 of 1,301 | #69 of 94 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #159 of 1,312 | #6 of 97 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -35.2% | #52 of 854 | #20 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
364
-60 (-14%) vs 2020
-41% since 1990-91, when it was 618
Student : Teacher
10.4:1
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 | 364 | 35 | 10.4:1 | 100% (364) |
| 2023-24 | 388 | 33.7 | 11.5:1 | 100% (388) |
| 2022-23 | 412 | 34.7 | 11.9:1 | 100% (412) |
| 2020-21 | 424 | 40 | 10.6:1 | 99% (421) |
| 2017-18 | 562 | 41.2 | 13.6:1 | 100% (562) |
| 2015-16 | 561 | 39 | 14.4:1 | 99% (558) |
| 2010-11 | 555 | 32 | 17.3:1 | 94% (519) |
| 2000-01 | 599 | 33 | 18.1:1 | 85% (510) |
| 1990-91 | 618 | 38 | 16.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Columbia Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 35% (562 to 364); teachers down 15% (41.2 to 35).
About Columbia Elementary School
Columbia Elementary School is an elementary school in Decatur, Georgia, according to federal school records. Grades offered run from pre-K through 5, with 364 students enrolled. For comparison, elementary schools in Georgia average about 605 students.
DeKalb County is the local district for Columbia Elementary School. It runs 131 schools with 92,088 students.
Black students are the large majority at Columbia Elementary School, with 89% of enrollment. The next largest groups are 4% Hispanic and 4% multiracial. In DeKalb County overall, about 51% of residents are Black. The chance that two students picked at random at Columbia Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 20%.
Teachers at Columbia Elementary School total 35 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 10.4:1. The 13.3:1 average for elementary schools in Georgia is higher than this school's figure. The school counts 364 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 100%. Among public schools in DeKalb County, the average eligibility rate is 77%.
The allk12 Grade for Columbia Elementary School is D. Compared with Georgia public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 9% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
In Georgia, Columbia Elementary School is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 16.2% actual against a predicted 25.7%.
In DeKalb County (population about 765,351), median household income is about $80,644, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. A total of 154 public schools operate in DeKalb County, serving about 102,960 students.
The closest other public school is Columbia High School, about 0.7 miles away. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Columbia Elementary School is 4th of 8 on proficiency.
The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment was 424 in 2020-21 and 364 in 2024-25, a decrease of 60 students.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss science fairs, picture day, and bus routes at Columbia Elementary School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 Columbia Elementary schools
24 other US public schools in 13 states are named Columbia Elementary. Columbia Elementary School is the 17th largest of the 25.
- Columbia ElementaryEl Monte, CA · 706 students
- Columbia ElementaryPerris, CA · 704 students
- Columbia Elementary SchoolMadison, AL · 701 students
- Columbia ElementaryLancaster, CA · 620 students
- Columbia ElementaryBakersfield, CA · 601 students
Nearby schools
- Columbia High School0.7 mi · 877
- Snapfinger Elementary School1.0 mi · 356
- Toney Elementary School1.3 mi · 207
- Kelley Lake Elementary School1.5 mi · 302
- Columbia Middle School1.6 mi · 571
- Wadsworth Magnet School for High Achievers1.7 mi · 273
Frequently asked questions
About Columbia Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Columbia Elementary School?
Columbia Elementary School enrolls approximately 364 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Columbia Elementary School serve?
Columbia Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Columbia Elementary School have?
Columbia Elementary School employs 35 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.4:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Columbia Elementary School?
At Columbia Elementary School, the student body is approximately 2% White, 4% Hispanic, 89% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Columbia Elementary School public or private?
Columbia Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by DeKalb County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.