Flat Rock Elementary School

Flat Rock Elementary School is an elementary school of large scale in Lithonia, Georgia, overseen by DeKalb County, serveing 977 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 61% larger than the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 605 students.

Within DeKalb County, which oversees 131 schools and 92,088 students, Flat Rock Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Flat Rock Elementary School shows that nearly all students (90%) are Black; the rest reads as 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against DeKalb County (around 77%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Flat Rock Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 16.5%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for DeKalb County put the typical household earns roughly $80,644 per year, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, DeKalb County runs 154 public schools (combined enrollment of about 102,960 students), of which Flat Rock Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Salem Middle School, roughly 1.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Flat Rock Elementary School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 24.2%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Flat Rock Elementary School has decreased 3%, going from 1,006 students in 2018 to 977 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 94% to 90% across the same window.

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