Miller Grove Middle School

Miller Grove Middle School is one of the close-knit 6-8 campuss in Decatur, Georgia, run under DeKalb County, with 625 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

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

On the student-mix side, Miller Grove Middle School logs that nearly all students (86%) are Black. Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, DeKalb County as a whole is about 51% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.1:1, putting Miller Grove Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 100% of students at Miller Grove Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than DeKalb County's rate of about 77%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Miller Grove Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.7%; this one delivers 12.7%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for DeKalb County indicate median household earnings sit near $80,644, roughly 47% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across DeKalb County's 154 public schools (combined enrollment of about 102,960 students), Miller Grove Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Panola Way Elementary School, roughly 0.9 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Miller Grove Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Miller Grove Middle School at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 20.0%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 31%: 909 students in 2018 compared to 625 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 95% to 86%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

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