Peachcrest Elementary School

Peachcrest Elementary School is a primary school of moderately sized scale in Decatur, Georgia, overseen by DeKalb County, serveing 729 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 20% above the state mean of about 605.

Across the 131 schools in DeKalb County (92,088 students total), Peachcrest Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Peachcrest Elementary School shows that the largest single group is Black, at 74% of enrollment; the rest looks like 15% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 4% Asian, 2% White. By comparison, DeKalb County as a whole is about 51% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting Peachcrest Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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, Peachcrest 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 12.7%, a residual of -12.9 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for DeKalb County indicate 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. In all, DeKalb County runs 154 public schools (combined enrollment of about 102,960 students), of which Peachcrest Elementary School is one.

Towers High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Peachcrest Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Peachcrest Elementary School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 33.4%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 25%: 968 students in 2018 compared to 729 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 89% to 74% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.

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