PEACE Academy Charter School

Set in Decatur, Georgia, PEACE Academy Charter School is a tiny K-5 school, operated by State Specialty Schools II- PEACE Academy Charter School. It works with 241 students across grades K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 60% below the state mean of about 605.

Operationally, PEACE Academy Charter School answers to State Specialty Schools II- PEACE Academy Charter School, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

On demographics, PEACE Academy Charter School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (96%). Other groups include 4% Hispanic. By comparison, DeKalb County as a whole is about 51% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, PEACE Academy Charter School has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.1:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against DeKalb County (around 77%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for DeKalb County indicate 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 PEACE Academy Charter School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Toney Elementary School, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area. PEACE Academy Charter School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

On the community side, members of the PEACE Academy Charter School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.