Cross Keys High School

As a sizable senior high in Brookhaven, Georgia, Cross Keys High School enrolls 1,748 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within DeKalb County. Enrollment runs roughly 56% bigger than the state mean of about 1,120.

DeKalb County runs 131 schools in total, collectively educating 92,088 students. Cross Keys High School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Cross Keys High School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (91%); the rest breaks down as 4% Black, 3% Asian. By comparison, DeKalb County as a whole is about 11% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 125 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.2:1, putting Cross Keys High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 100% of students at Cross Keys High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, DeKalb County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Cross Keys High 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 32.3%, a residual of +6.7 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for DeKalb County indicate median household earnings sit near $80,644, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across DeKalb County's 154 public schools (combined enrollment of about 102,960 students), Cross Keys High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Woodward Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cross Keys High School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cross Keys High School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 43.9%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Cross Keys High School's enrollment has climbed 14% since 2018, when it stood at 1,529 (now 1,748). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 today.

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