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Enrollment
1,062
Middle
DISTRICT 857 · STATE 763
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DEKALB COUNTY·NCES 130174002858
Lithonia Middle School
2451 Randall Ave, Lithonia, GA 30058 · (678) 875-0702 · DeKalb County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,062 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 3% of Georgia public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- DThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Georgia public middle schools
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
72 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.2:1 · STATE 14.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
1,062 students
DISTRICT 82% · STATE 74%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 320 | 30% |
| Grade 7 | 352 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 390 | 37% |
Student demographics
23%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Lithonia Middle School→Lithonia High School
Based on published attendance-zone data from DeKalb County. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
15.1%
GA avg 40.1% . -3.4pp since 2021
Math
13.2%
GA avg 44.6% . +3.6pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 15 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 4 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 15.1% | 13.2% |
| 2023-24 | 19.9% | 9.8% |
| 2022-23 | 20.6% | 7.9% |
| 2021-22 | 18.5% | 9.5% |
% Proficient or Distinguished, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Georgia Milestones. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
13.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 13% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Georgia's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Lithonia Middle School
Lithonia Middle School's state test result (13.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lithonia Middle School this school | 1,062 | 100.0% | 13.0% |
| Woodland Middle School East Point | 937 | 100.0% | 20.8% |
| Renaissance Middle School Fairburn | 977 | 100.0% | 31.4% |
| Bear Creek Middle School Fairburn | 971 | 100.0% | 28.1% |
| Salem Middle School Lithonia | 827 | 100.0% | 12.0% |
| Albany Middle School Albany | 792 | 100.0% | 18.4% |
Matched among Georgia middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Lithonia Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In DeKalb County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 13.0% | #441 of 470 | #20 of 23 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 13.2% | #433 of 474 ▲ 11 | #19 of 23 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 15.1% | #447 of 474 ▼ 26 | #22 of 23 ▼ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.1pp | #392 of 465 | #21 of 23 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,062 | #77 of 487 | #7 of 23 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.8:1 | #294 of 471 | #16 of 23 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 23.4% | #423 of 471 | #16 of 23 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #56 of 479 | #10 of 23 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.4% | #269 of 305 | #12 of 13 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,062
-132 (-11%) vs 2020
-10% since 2010-11, when it was 1,181
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
was 17.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,062 | 72 | 14.8:1 | 100% (1,062) |
| 2023-24 | 1,064 | 66 | 16.1:1 | 100% (1,064) |
| 2022-23 | 1,214 | 72.7 | 16.7:1 | 100% (1,214) |
| 2020-21 | 1,194 | 69 | 17.3:1 | 99% (1,182) |
| 2017-18 | 1,088 | 69.5 | 15.7:1 | 94% (1,026) |
| 2015-16 | 1,069 | 71 | 15.1:1 | 90% (959) |
| 2010-11 | 1,181 | 75 | 15.8:1 | 85% (1,000) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lithonia Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (1,088 to 1,062); teachers up 4% (69.5 to 72).
About Lithonia Middle School
Lithonia Middle School is a mid-sized middle-grades school in Lithonia, Georgia, under DeKalb County. It is open to students in grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 1,062 students. By comparison, middle schools in Georgia enroll about 763 students on average.
DeKalb County serves 92,088 students across 131 schools.
A large majority of enrollment at Lithonia Middle School is Black, at 87%. The rest of enrollment is 7% Hispanic and 2% multiracial. Among all residents of DeKalb County, the Black share is about 51%. The diversity index for Lithonia Middle School is 23%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Lithonia Middle School reported 72 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 14.8:1. The average for middle schools in Georgia is about 14.1:1. Roughly 100% of students at Lithonia Middle School can receive free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in DeKalb County averages 77%, lower than here.
On the allk12 Grade, Lithonia Middle School lands at F, ahead of 3% of Georgia public middle schools.
The model predicts 25.7% for a school in Georgia with Lithonia Middle School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Lithonia Middle School posts 13.0%.
Census data for DeKalb County show median household income comes to about $80,644, about 47% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. The county has 154 public schools and about 102,960 students.
Lithonia Middle School's closest public school neighbor is Stoneview Elementary School, about 0.7 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools average 21.3% on proficiency, and Lithonia Middle School is below that at 13.0%.
Locale data from NCES put Lithonia Middle School in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
Enrollment figures show a decline of 132 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25. The ratio was 17.3:1 in 2020-21 and 14.8:1 in 2024-25.
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DeKalb County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
765,351
Census ACS
Median income
$80,644
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
47%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
154
102,960 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in DeKalb County
- Lakeside High SchoolHigh · 2,234 students
- Dunwoody High SchoolHigh · 2,012 students
- Chamblee High SchoolHigh · 1,867 students
- Cross Keys High SchoolHigh · 1,748 students
- Sequoyah Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,713 students
- Tucker High SchoolHigh · 1,614 students
Other schools in Lithonia
- Lithonia High SchoolHigh · 1,547 students
- Martin Luther King- Jr. High SchoolHigh · 1,370 students
- Arabia Mountain High School - Academy of Engineering- MedicHigh · 1,224 students
- Miller Grove High SchoolHigh · 1,073 students
- Flat Rock Elementary SchoolElementary · 977 students
- Salem Middle SchoolMiddle · 827 students
Nearby schools
- Stoneview Elementary School0.7 mi · 782
- Lithonia High School1.3 mi · 1,547
- Leadership Preparatory Academy1.8 mi · 268
- Miller Grove High School2.2 mi · 1,073
- Redan Elementary School2.6 mi · 525
- Marbut Elementary School2.6 mi · 427
Frequently asked questions
About Lithonia Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Lithonia Middle School?
Lithonia Middle School enrolls approximately 1,062 students in grades 06-08.
Is Lithonia Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Lithonia Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Lithonia Middle School?
Approximately 14.8:1 students per teacher at Lithonia Middle School.
What is the student diversity at Lithonia Middle School?
Student demographics at Lithonia Middle School are roughly 1% White, 7% Hispanic, 87% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Lithonia Middle School public or private?
Lithonia Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by DeKalb County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.