Flat Shoals Elementary School

Set in Decatur, Georgia, Flat Shoals Elementary School is an intimate elementary campus, run under DeKalb County. It instructs 373 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Flat Shoals Elementary School sits 38% below that benchmark.

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

On demographics, Flat Shoals Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (94%). The remainder reads as 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

On the resource side, Flat Shoals Elementary School shows 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.0:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against DeKalb County (around 77%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Flat Shoals Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 12.7%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for DeKalb County put median household income runs about $80,644, 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 Shoals Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Kelley Lake Elementary School, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Flat Shoals Elementary School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Flat Shoals Elementary School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 19.7%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Flat Shoals Elementary School has edged down 34%, going from 561 students in 2018 to 373 in 2025.

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.