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How has DeKalb Agriculture Technology and Environment School changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
760
Elementary
DISTRICT 556 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DEKALB COUNTY·NCES 130174003955
DeKalb Agriculture Technology and Environment School
1492 Kelton Dr, Stone Mountain, GA 30083 · (770) 484-5865 · DeKalb County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL760 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 93% of Georgia public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A-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
15.2:1
50 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
759 students
DISTRICT 82% · STATE 74%
Community
6
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 80 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 83 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 83 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 83 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 83 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 84 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 91 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 89 | 12% |
| Grade 8 | 84 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (80) is about the same size as its 8th grade class (84).
Student demographics
19%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
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
51.1%
GA avg 40.1% . +2.8pp since 2021
Math
51.7%
GA avg 44.6% . +11.0pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 11 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 51.1% | 51.7% |
| 2023-24 | 60.3% | 42.7% |
| 2022-23 | 56.4% | 45.0% |
| 2021-22 | 48.2% | 40.7% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of GA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
51.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.8%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+25.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 26% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 25 points, placing it in Georgia's top 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 DeKalb Agriculture Technology and Environment School
DeKalb Agriculture Technology and Environment School's state test result (51.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| DeKalb Agriculture Technology and Environment School this school | 760 | 99.9% | 51.0% |
| Oakley Elementary School Union City | 733 | 100.0% | 32.7% |
| Centennial Place Academy (Charter) Atlanta | 757 | 100.0% | 25.9% |
| Renaissance Elementary School Fairburn | 750 | 100.0% | 40.3% |
| Nolan Elementary School College Park | 779 | 100.0% | 25.4% |
| Wolf Creek Elementary College Park | 712 | 100.0% | 45.2% |
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 DeKalb Agriculture Technology and Environment School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In DeKalb County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #335 of 1,208 | #24 of 88 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.7% | #371 of 1,215 ▲ 175 | #22 of 88 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 51.1% | #259 of 1,215 ▼ 88 | #23 of 88 ▼ 5 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +6.9pp | #263 of 1,183 | #18 of 88 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 760 | #286 of 1,324 | #17 of 97 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.2:1 | #1,137 of 1,301 | #85 of 94 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 19.0% | #1,208 of 1,301 | #75 of 94 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.9% | #455 of 1,312 | #44 of 97 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +9.2% | #209 of 386 | #12 of 19 |
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
760
-9 (-1%) vs 2020
+46% since 2010-11, when it was 522
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
was 19.7:1
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 | 760 | 50 | 15.2:1 | 100% (759) |
| 2023-24 | 765 | 45.2 | 16.9:1 | 77% (589) |
| 2022-23 | 763 | 43.5 | 17.5:1 | 67% (511) |
| 2020-21 | 769 | 39 | 19.7:1 | 62% (479) |
| 2017-18 | 696 | 38.5 | 18.1:1 | 62% (430) |
| 2015-16 | 751 | 35 | 21.5:1 | 21% (160) |
| 2010-11 | 522 | 24 | 21.8:1 | 26% (135) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for DeKalb Agriculture Technology and Environment School.
Since 2017-18: students up 9% (696 to 760); teachers up 30% (38.5 to 50).
About DeKalb Agriculture Technology and Environment School
At 1492 Kelton Dr in Stone Mountain, Georgia, DeKalb Agriculture Technology and Environment School operates as a medium-sized elementary school. The latest federal count shows 760 students in kindergarten through 8. Against the 605-student average for elementary schools in Georgia, enrollment here is 26% higher.
DeKalb Agriculture Technology and Environment School reports to DeKalb County, which has 131 schools and 92,088 students.
Black students are the large majority at DeKalb Agriculture Technology and Environment School, with 90% of enrollment. Other groups make up 7% Hispanic and 2% multiracial. County-wide, 51% of DeKalb County residents are Black. By the diversity index, DeKalb Agriculture Technology and Environment School comes in at 19%.
DeKalb Agriculture Technology and Environment School employs 50 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 15.2:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Georgia is 13.3:1, lower than at this school. DeKalb Agriculture Technology and Environment School's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 100%. The rate at public schools in DeKalb County averages 77%, lower than here.
allk12 grades DeKalb Agriculture Technology and Environment School an A. The grade compares the school only with Georgia public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Compared with Georgia schools that have similar shares of low-income students, DeKalb Agriculture Technology and Environment School does better than predicted by 25.2 points. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 51.0%; the prediction is 25.8%.
Census Bureau estimates for DeKalb County show that median household income is about $80,644, roughly 47% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. DeKalb Agriculture Technology and Environment School is one of 154 public schools in DeKalb County, which together enroll about 102,960 students.
The closest public school to DeKalb Agriculture Technology and Environment School is Dekalb Early College Academy, about 0.6 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Nearby schools with test data average 28.1% proficiency; DeKalb Agriculture Technology and Environment School posts 51.0%.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more. DeKalb Agriculture Technology and Environment School is a publicly funded charter school.
There was little change in enrollment from 2020-21 (769) to 2024-25 (760). By 2024-25, the school had 15.2 students per teacher, compared with 19.7 in 2020-21.
Conversations here can range across sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
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 Stone Mountain
- Stephenson High SchoolHigh · 1,339 students
- Freedom Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,272 students
- Stone Mountain High SchoolHigh · 1,254 students
- Redan High SchoolHigh · 1,052 students
- Stone Mountain Middle SchoolMiddle · 986 students
- Rockbridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 900 students
Nearby schools
- Dekalb Early College Academy0.6 mi · 314
- Elizabeth Andrews High School0.6 mi · 167
- Stone Mill Elementary School0.8 mi · 601
- Stone Mountain Middle School0.9 mi · 986
- Stone Mountain High School1.0 mi · 1,254
- Hambrick Elementary School1.1 mi · 536
Frequently asked questions
About DeKalb Agriculture Technology and Environment SchoolHow many students attend DeKalb Agriculture Technology and Environment School?
DeKalb Agriculture Technology and Environment School enrolls approximately 760 students in grades KG-08.
What age range does DeKalb Agriculture Technology and Environment School serve?
DeKalb Agriculture Technology and Environment School serves students from grade KG through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at DeKalb Agriculture Technology and Environment School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at DeKalb Agriculture Technology and Environment School is approximately 15.2:1 (50 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at DeKalb Agriculture Technology and Environment School?
At DeKalb Agriculture Technology and Environment School, the student body is approximately 7% Hispanic, 90% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is DeKalb Agriculture Technology and Environment School in?
DeKalb Agriculture Technology and Environment School is part of DeKalb County.
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