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Enrollment
450
Elementary
DISTRICT 556 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DEKALB COUNTY·NCES 130174001862
Eldridge L. Miller Elementary School
919 Martin Rd, Stone Mountain, GA 30088 · (678) 676-3302 · DeKalb County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL450 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 11% 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.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-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
13.6:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
450 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 39 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 55 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 73 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 71 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 63 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 79 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 70 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (55) is 21% smaller than its 5th grade class (70).
Student demographics
41%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% . -10.5pp since 2021
Math
25.4%
GA avg 44.6% . +9.6pp 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 25 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 10 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 10 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 13.1% | 25.4% |
| 2023-24 | 19.6% | 22.5% |
| 2022-23 | 18.4% | 20.5% |
| 2021-22 | 23.6% | 15.8% |
% 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
19.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 20% 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 Eldridge L. Miller Elementary School
Eldridge L. Miller Elementary School's state test result (19.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eldridge L. Miller Elementary School this school | 450 | 100.0% | 19.6% |
| Oliver Elementary School Riverdale | 452 | 100.0% | 30.4% |
| Shadow Rock Elementary School Lithonia | 493 | 100.0% | 21.1% |
| Woodridge Elementary School Stone Mountain | 444 | 100.0% | 18.9% |
| Sims Elementary School Conyers | 462 | 100.0% | 28.2% |
| Arnold Elementary School Jonesboro | 454 | 100.0% | 36.0% |
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 Eldridge L. Miller Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In DeKalb County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 19.6% | #1,062 of 1,208 | #60 of 88 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 25.4% | #960 of 1,215 ▲ 34 | #48 of 88 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 13.1% | #1,168 of 1,215 ▼ 111 | #82 of 88 ▼ 17 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -0.4pp | #394 of 1,183 | #25 of 88 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 450 | #972 of 1,324 | #60 of 97 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.6:1 | #720 of 1,301 | #59 of 94 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 40.5% | #942 of 1,301 | #50 of 94 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #183 of 1,312 | #30 of 97 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -27.1% | #121 of 854 | #28 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
450
-46 (-9%) vs 2020
-60% since 1990-91, when it was 1,139
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
was 13.4:1
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 | 450 | 33 | 13.6:1 | 100% (450) |
| 2023-24 | 450 | 32.5 | 13.8:1 | 100% (450) |
| 2022-23 | 492 | 31.5 | 15.6:1 | 100% (492) |
| 2020-21 | 496 | 37 | 13.4:1 | 99% (493) |
| 2017-18 | 617 | 43.5 | 14.2:1 | 100% (617) |
| 2015-16 | 632 | 39 | 16.2:1 | 99% (628) |
| 2010-11 | 560 | 34 | 16.5:1 | 91% (508) |
| 2000-01 | 770 | 38 | 20.3:1 | 64% (492) |
| 1990-91 | 1,139 | 56 | 20.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Eldridge L. Miller Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 27% (617 to 450); teachers down 24% (43.5 to 33).
About Eldridge L. Miller Elementary School
Eldridge L. Miller Elementary School is a small elementary school in Stone Mountain, Georgia, administered by DeKalb County. It enrolls 450 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are pre-K through 5. It has 26% fewer students than the average for elementary schools in Georgia (about 605).
DeKalb County is made up of 131 schools with 92,088 students in all.
The student body at Eldridge L. Miller Elementary School is 75% Black. It is also 16% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, and 3% Asian. DeKalb County's residents are about 51% Black, 25 points below the school's share. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 41, compared with 70 nationally.
Eldridge L. Miller Elementary School lists 33 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 13.6 students per teacher. The average for elementary schools in Georgia is about 13.3:1. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 100% of the student body. The 77% average for public schools in DeKalb County is 23 points lower.
On the allk12 Grade, Eldridge L. Miller Elementary School lands at D, ahead of 11% of Georgia public elementary schools.
Eldridge L. Miller Elementary School scores 19.6% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 25.7%.
In DeKalb County, where the school is located, the median household earns about $80,644 a year, roughly 47% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Public schools in DeKalb County number 154, with about 102,960 students.
Redan High School sits about 0.8 miles from Eldridge L. Miller Elementary School. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. On state test proficiency, Eldridge L. Miller Elementary School ranks 6th in a group of 7 nearby schools.
NCES assigns Eldridge L. Miller Elementary School the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment figures show a decrease of 46 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
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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
- Redan High School0.8 mi · 1,052
- Freedom Middle School1.3 mi · 1,272
- Rockbridge Elementary School1.7 mi · 900
- Allgood Elementary School2.0 mi · 614
- Shadow Rock Elementary School2.0 mi · 493
- East DeKalb Special Education Center2.3 mi · 165
Frequently asked questions
About Eldridge L. Miller Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Eldridge L. Miller Elementary School?
Eldridge L. Miller Elementary School enrolls approximately 450 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Eldridge L. Miller Elementary School serve?
Eldridge L. Miller Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Eldridge L. Miller Elementary School have?
Eldridge L. Miller Elementary School employs 33 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.6:1.
What is the student diversity at Eldridge L. Miller Elementary School?
Student demographics at Eldridge L. Miller Elementary School are roughly 2% White, 16% Hispanic, 75% Black, 3% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Eldridge L. Miller Elementary School?
Eldridge L. Miller Elementary 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.