Kingsley Elementary School

Set in Dunwoody, Georgia, Kingsley Elementary School is a close-knit elementary-level community, run under DeKalb County. It enrolls 386 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Kingsley Elementary School sits 36% leaner than that benchmark.

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

Looking at the student body, Kingsley Elementary School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 63% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 20% White, 8% Black, 4% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, DeKalb County as a whole is about 11% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Kingsley Elementary School shows 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. Around 69% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Kingsley Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.5%, the actual is 34.2%, a residual of -7.3 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (DeKalb County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $80,644 per year, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across DeKalb County's 154 public schools (combined enrollment of about 102,960 students), Kingsley Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Dunwoody Elementary School, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kingsley Elementary School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 52.9%.

Kingsley Elementary School operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Kingsley Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 15% since 2018, when it stood at 456 (now 386). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 26% to 20%.

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