Fifth Avenue Upper Elementary School

Fifth Avenue Upper Elementary School is an elementary school of average-sized scale in Decatur, Georgia, part of City Schools of Decatur, instructing 529 students in grades 3 through 5.

Within City Schools of Decatur, which oversees 9 schools and 5,367 students, Fifth Avenue Upper Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Fifth Avenue Upper Elementary School reports that White students make up the majority at 69%. The remainder reads as 12% Black, 8% multiracial, 6% Asian, 5% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 29% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Fifth Avenue Upper Elementary School has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.7:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 11% of students at Fifth Avenue Upper Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below DeKalb County's rate of about 77%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Fifth Avenue Upper Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 71.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 74.4%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for DeKalb County put the typical household earns roughly $80,644 per year, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across DeKalb County's 154 public schools (combined enrollment of about 102,960 students), Fifth Avenue Upper Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Oakhurst Elementary School, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Fifth Avenue Upper Elementary School comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 58.6%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Fifth Avenue Upper Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 41% since 2018, when it stood at 899 (now 529). Over the same period, the Black share decreased from 20% to 12%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

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