Marbut Elementary School

Marbut Elementary School operates as a cozy K-5 school in Lithonia, Georgia, operated by DeKalb County. Current enrollment sits at 427 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 605 students per school, that is 29% smaller than typical.

Marbut Elementary School is one of 131 schools operated by DeKalb County, a district that teaches 92,088 students overall.

Demographically, Marbut Elementary School lists that 90% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest consists of 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, DeKalb County as a whole is about 51% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. Roughly 100% of students at Marbut 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 above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Marbut Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.7%, the actual is 24.5%, a residual of -1.1 points.

Across the wider county, DeKalb County reports that the typical household earns roughly $80,644 per year, roughly 47% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Marbut Elementary School is one of 154 public schools in DeKalb County (combined enrollment of about 102,960 students).

The closest other public school is Redan Middle School, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Marbut Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Marbut Elementary School comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 20.4%.

Marbut Elementary School operates from a residential location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 45%: 776 students in 2018 compared to 427 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged down from 96% to 90% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 in 2025.

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