Laurel Ridge Elementary School

Laurel Ridge Elementary School operates as a low-enrollment elementary campus in Decatur, Georgia, one of the schools within DeKalb County. Current enrollment sits at 440 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 27% below the state mean of about 605.

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

In terms of who attends, Laurel Ridge Elementary School lists that 42% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 21% Black, 19% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 8% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 29% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. Roughly 40% of students at Laurel Ridge Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against DeKalb County (around 77%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Laurel Ridge Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.9%, the actual is 55.2%, a residual of -1.7 points.

In the surrounding community, DeKalb County reports that 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 Laurel Ridge Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Druid Hills Middle School, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Laurel Ridge Elementary School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Laurel Ridge Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 48.4%.

Laurel Ridge Elementary School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Laurel Ridge Elementary School has shrank 7%, going from 473 students in 2018 to 440 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 47% to 42% across the same window.

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