Eldridge L. Miller Elementary School

Eldridge L. Miller Elementary School is a K-5 school of intimate scale in Stone Mountain, Georgia, run under DeKalb County, caters to 450 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Eldridge L. Miller Elementary School sits 26% smaller than that benchmark.

DeKalb County runs 131 schools in total, collectively educating 92,088 students. Eldridge L. Miller Elementary School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Eldridge L. Miller Elementary School reports that the largest single group is Black, at 75% of enrollment. Other groups include 16% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against DeKalb County (around 77%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Eldridge L. Miller Elementary 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 19.6%, a residual of -6.0 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for DeKalb County indicate the typical household earns roughly $80,644 per year, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Eldridge L. Miller Elementary School is one of 154 public schools in DeKalb County (combined enrollment of about 102,960 students).

Redan High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Eldridge L. Miller Elementary School at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 24.7%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 27%: 617 students in 2018 compared to 450 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 89% to 75% across the same window.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.