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Enrollment
877
High
DISTRICT 1,183 · STATE 1,120
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DEKALB COUNTY·NCES 130174000666
Columbia High School
2106 Columbia Dr, Decatur, GA 30032 · (678) 874-0802 · DeKalb County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL877 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 17% of Georgia public high schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
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 high schools
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
63 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.8:1 · STATE 15.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
877 students
DISTRICT 82% · STATE 74%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 214 | 24% |
| Grade 10 | 238 | 27% |
| Grade 11 | 239 | 27% |
| Grade 12 | 186 | 21% |
Student demographics
16%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
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 DistinguishedMath
17.6%
GA avg 44.6% . -0.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 18 of every 100 students at this school do math at grade level. The Georgia average is about 45 of 100. Math scores have held steady since 2023.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | Math |
|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 17.6% |
| 2023-24 | 18.2% |
% 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
15.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.0pp
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 High School
Columbia High School's state test result (15.7% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia High School this school | 877 | 100.0% | 15.7% |
| Carver High School Columbus | 887 | 100.0% | 14.4% |
| D. M. Therrell High School Atlanta | 964 | 100.0% | 15.6% |
| Glenn Hills High School Augusta | 839 | 100.0% | 4.7% |
| Kendrick High School Columbus | 840 | 100.0% | 10.1% |
| Butler High School Augusta | 878 | 100.0% | 3.0% |
Matched among Georgia high 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 High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In DeKalb County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 15.7% | #365 of 411 | #20 of 25 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.6% | #352 of 417 ▼ 19 | #22 of 25 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 877 | #287 of 480 | #19 of 29 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #85 of 413 | #7 of 25 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 15.8% | #392 of 413 | #21 of 25 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #33 of 425 | #4 of 27 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.8% | #53 of 168 | #5 of 11 |
Ranked against other public high 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
877
-83 (-9%) vs 2020
-22% since 1990-91, when it was 1,127
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
was 15.2:1
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 | 877 | 63 | 13.9:1 | 100% (877) |
| 2023-24 | 909 | 67 | 13.6:1 | 100% (909) |
| 2022-23 | 898 | 59 | 15.2:1 | 100% (898) |
| 2020-21 | 960 | 63 | 15.2:1 | 99% (952) |
| 2017-18 | 1,017 | 73 | 13.9:1 | 100% (1,017) |
| 2015-16 | 1,218 | 67 | 18.2:1 | 79% (961) |
| 2010-11 | 1,199 | 79 | 15.2:1 | 79% (948) |
| 2000-01 | 1,449 | 80 | 18.1:1 | 53% (765) |
| 1990-91 | 1,127 | 77 | 14.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Columbia High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (1,017 to 877); teachers down 14% (73 to 63).
About Columbia High School
Students in Decatur, Georgia, attend Columbia High School, a small high school. It enrolled 877 students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2024-25 school year. Statewide, high schools in Georgia average about 1,120 students each.
Enrollment across the 131 schools in DeKalb County totals 92,088 students.
Black students make up 92% of enrollment at Columbia High School. The next largest groups are 5% Hispanic. In DeKalb County overall, about 51% of residents are Black. Pick two students at random and there is a 16% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Staffing totals 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 13.9:1. On average, high schools in Georgia have 15.2:1, compared with 13.9:1 here. The free or reduced-price lunch rate at Columbia High School is 100%. The rate at public schools in DeKalb County averages 77%, lower than here.
The allk12 Grade for Columbia High School is C-. Compared with Georgia public high schools, the school scored higher than 17% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Schools in Georgia with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 25.7%. Columbia High School scores 15.7%.
DeKalb County has about 765,351 residents, and the median household income is $80,644, about 47% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. In all, DeKalb County has 154 public schools and roughly 102,960 students.
The school nearest to Columbia High School is Snapfinger Elementary School, at a distance of about 0.3 miles. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Columbia High School ranks 5th of 8 on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for Columbia High School is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment is down 9% from 2020-21, when Columbia High School had 960 students, to 2024-25, when it had 877. Students per teacher fell from 15.2 in 2020-21 to 13.9 in 2024-25.
Questions about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news can be posted here. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
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
- Towers High SchoolHigh · 876 students
- Peachcrest Elementary SchoolElementary · 729 students
Other Columbia High schools
14 other US public schools in 14 states are named Columbia High. Columbia High School is the 7th largest of the 15.
- Columbia High SchoolMAPLEWOOD, NJ · 1,985 students
- COLUMBIA HIGH SCHOOLLAKE CITY, FL · 1,711 students
- COLUMBIA HIGH SCHOOLEAST GREENBUSH, NY · 1,272 students
- COLUMBIA HIGH SCHOOLNAMPA, ID · 1,165 students
- Columbia High SchoolHuntsville, AL · 916 students
Nearby schools
- Snapfinger Elementary School0.3 mi · 356
- Columbia Elementary School0.7 mi · 364
- Peachcrest Elementary School1.4 mi · 729
- Wadsworth Magnet School for High Achievers1.4 mi · 273
- Towers High School1.5 mi · 876
- Toney Elementary School1.6 mi · 207
Frequently asked questions
About Columbia High SchoolHow many students attend Columbia High School?
Columbia High School enrolls approximately 877 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does Columbia High School serve?
Columbia High School serves grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Columbia High School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Columbia High School is approximately 13.9:1 (63 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Columbia High School?
At Columbia High School, the student body is approximately 0% White, 5% Hispanic, 92% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Columbia High School?
Columbia High School is overseen by DeKalb County in DeKalb County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.