Oak Grove Elementary School

As a compact primary school in Atlanta, Georgia, Oak Grove Elementary School instructs 429 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under DeKalb County. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Oak Grove Elementary School sits 29% smaller than that benchmark.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Oak Grove Elementary School logs that White students make up the majority at 62%; the rest is composed of 14% Black, 9% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 29%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Oak Grove Elementary School has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.3:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 11% of students at Oak Grove 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 meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Oak Grove Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 71.7%; this one delivers 73.4%.

Across the wider county, DeKalb County reports that median household income runs about $80,644, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, DeKalb County runs 154 public schools (combined enrollment of about 102,960 students), of which Oak Grove Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Coralwood Education Center, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Oak Grove Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Oak Grove Elementary School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 49.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Oak Grove Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 20% since 2018, when it stood at 534 (now 429).

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