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Enrollment
985
Middle
DISTRICT 857 · STATE 763
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DEKALB COUNTY·NCES 130174001589
Druid Hills Middle School
3100 Mount Olive Dr, Decatur, GA 30033 · (678) 874-7602 · DeKalb County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL985 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 42% of Georgia public middle schools
- B-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
13.7:1
72 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.2:1 · STATE 14.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
72%
712 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 | 338 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 289 | 29% |
| Grade 8 | 358 | 36% |
Student demographics
71%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
Druid Hills Middle School→Druid Hills 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
38.5%
GA avg 40.1% . -3.3pp since 2021
Math
36.1%
GA avg 44.6% . +3.7pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 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 3 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 4 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 38.5% | 36.1% |
| 2023-24 | 44.1% | 37.8% |
| 2022-23 | 46.3% | 35.4% |
| 2021-22 | 41.7% | 32.4% |
% 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
38.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.0%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 Druid Hills Middle School
Druid Hills Middle School's state test result (38.1% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Druid Hills Middle School this school | 985 | 72.3% | 38.1% |
| Mason Creek Middle School Winston | 853 | 68.5% | 46.2% |
| Bennett's Mill Middle School Fayetteville | 876 | 63.5% | 48.6% |
| Veterans Memorial Middle School Columbus | 681 | 75.9% | 34.4% |
| Arnall Middle School Newnan | 740 | 60.5% | 36.0% |
| Herschel Jones Middle School Dallas | 728 | 71.7% | 27.0% |
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 Druid Hills Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In DeKalb County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.1% | #227 of 470 | #7 of 23 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.1% | #266 of 474 ▼ 42 | #7 of 23 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 38.5% | #202 of 474 ▼ 44 | #7 of 23 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.2pp | #389 of 465 | #20 of 23 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 985 | #102 of 487 | #10 of 23 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.7:1 | #202 of 471 | #11 of 23 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.6% | #26 of 471 | #2 of 23 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 72.3% | #285 of 479 | #18 of 23 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +6.0% | #89 of 144 | #6 of 9 |
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
985
+38 (+4%) vs 2020
-25% since 2000-01, when it was 1,320
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
was 12.6:1
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 | 985 | 72 | 13.7:1 | 72% (712) |
| 2023-24 | 929 | 72 | 12.9:1 | 59% (544) |
| 2022-23 | 956 | 72.3 | 13.2:1 | 46% (444) |
| 2020-21 | 947 | 75 | 12.6:1 | 46% (432) |
| 2017-18 | 929 | 69.5 | 13.4:1 | 55% (515) |
| 2015-16 | 919 | 70 | 13.1:1 | 56% (514) |
| 2010-11 | 1,079 | 80 | 13.5:1 | 60% (649) |
| 2000-01 | 1,320 | 89 | 14.8:1 | 42% (548) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Druid Hills Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 6% (929 to 985); teachers up 4% (69.5 to 72).
About Druid Hills Middle School
Druid Hills Middle School is a medium-sized middle-grades school in Decatur, Georgia, one of the schools in DeKalb County. Classes run from 6 through 8, and the school has 985 students. The average for middle schools in Georgia is about 763 students, so this school is 29% bigger than average.
Druid Hills Middle School is among 131 schools run by DeKalb County, which serves 92,088 students.
At Druid Hills Middle School, the largest share of students is Black, at 45%. The remaining shares are 23% White, 16% Hispanic, 9% Asian, and 6% multiracial. Pick two students at random and there is a 71% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Its teaching staff equals 72 full-time positions, a ratio of 13.7:1. That is close to the 14.1:1 average for middle schools in Georgia. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 72%.
The allk12 Grade for Druid Hills Middle School is C+. Compared with Georgia public middle schools, the school scored higher than 42% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Druid Hills Middle School is 1.9 points below its prediction. Actual: 38.1%. Predicted: 40.0%.
According to the American Community Survey, in DeKalb County, the median household income is $80,644, roughly 47% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. There are 154 public schools in DeKalb County, enrolling about 102,960 students in all.
Laurel Ridge Elementary School is the closest public school, about 0.3 miles away in a straight line. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Druid Hills Middle School. Among the 8 closest schools with test data, this one included, Druid Hills Middle School ranks 7th on average proficiency.
In the federal locale system, Druid Hills 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.
Over 4 years, Druid Hills Middle School's enrollment grew 4%, to 985. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 12.6:1 to 13.7:1.
Threads on this page can be about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. 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
- Columbia High SchoolHigh · 877 students
- Towers High SchoolHigh · 876 students
- Peachcrest Elementary SchoolElementary · 729 students
Nearby schools
- Laurel Ridge Elementary School0.3 mi · 440
- Coralwood Education Center1.0 mi · 218
- McLendon Elementary School1.2 mi · 342
- Briarlake Elementary School1.4 mi · 360
- Oak Grove Elementary School1.5 mi · 429
- International Community School1.5 mi · 501
Frequently asked questions
About Druid Hills Middle SchoolHow large is Druid Hills Middle School?
Druid Hills Middle School enrolls approximately 985 students in grades 06-08.
Is Druid Hills Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Druid Hills Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Druid Hills Middle School have?
Druid Hills Middle School employs 72 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.7:1.
What is the student diversity at Druid Hills Middle School?
Student demographics at Druid Hills Middle School are roughly 23% White, 16% Hispanic, 45% Black, 9% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Druid Hills Middle School in?
Druid Hills Middle School is part of DeKalb County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.