Enrollment
337
Elementary
DISTRICT 556 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DEKALB COUNTY·NCES 130174000699
Rainbow Elementary School
2801 Kelley Chapel Rd, Decatur, GA 30034 · (678) 874-1702 · DeKalb County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL337 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
10.9:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
337 students
DISTRICT 82% · STATE 74%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 38 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 35 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 50 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 55 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 49 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 60 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 50 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (35) is 30% smaller than its 5th grade class (50).
Student demographics
20%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on published attendance-zone data from DeKalb County. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
20.6%
GA avg 40.1% . +3.1pp since 2021
Math
20.6%
GA avg 44.6% . +5.8pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 21 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 21 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 6 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 20.6% | 20.6% |
| 2023-24 | 20.6% | 22.0% |
| 2022-23 | 23.4% | 21.2% |
| 2021-22 | 17.5% | 14.9% |
% Proficient or Distinguished, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Georgia Milestones. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
20.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 20% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Georgia's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Rainbow Elementary School
Rainbow Elementary School's state test result (20.4% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow Elementary School this school | 337 | 100.0% | 20.4% |
| Wesley Heights Elementary School Columbus | 349 | 100.0% | 18.9% |
| DeKalb Brilliance Academy Decatur | 357 | 100.0% | N/A |
| T. J. Perkerson Elementary School Atlanta | 338 | 100.0% | 18.1% |
| Jamestown Elementary School Hephzibah | 327 | 100.0% | 15.5% |
| Snapfinger Elementary School Decatur | 356 | 100.0% | 12.4% |
Matched among Georgia elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Rainbow Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In DeKalb County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 20.4% | #1,041 of 1,208 | #58 of 88 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.6% | #1,054 of 1,215 ▼ 52 | #62 of 88 ▼ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 20.6% | #995 of 1,215 ▲ 45 | #56 of 88 ▲ 7 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +4.4pp | #426 of 1,183 | #37 of 88 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 337 | #1,203 of 1,324 | #85 of 97 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.9:1 | #103 of 1,301 | #13 of 94 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 19.8% | #1,202 of 1,301 | #72 of 94 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #169 of 1,312 | #16 of 97 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.6% | #203 of 854 | #33 of 73 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
337
+24 (+8%) vs 2020
-50% since 1990-91, when it was 678
Student : Teacher
10.9:1
was 10.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 337 | 31 | 10.9:1 | 100% (337) |
| 2023-24 | 319 | 25.6 | 12.5:1 | 100% (319) |
| 2022-23 | 323 | 28.1 | 11.5:1 | 100% (323) |
| 2020-21 | 313 | 31 | 10.1:1 | 99% (310) |
| 2017-18 | 430 | 38 | 11.3:1 | 88% (379) |
| 2015-16 | 461 | 33 | 14.0:1 | 84% (387) |
| 2010-11 | 499 | 35 | 14.3:1 | 84% (420) |
| 2000-01 | 639 | 34 | 18.8:1 | 62% (398) |
| 1990-91 | 678 | 46 | 14.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Rainbow Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (430 to 337); teachers down 18% (38 to 31).
About Rainbow Elementary School
Located in Decatur, Georgia, Rainbow Elementary School is a small elementary school. It reports enrollment of 337 students in pre-K through 5. That puts enrollment 44% below the 605-student average for elementary schools in Georgia.
Rainbow Elementary School falls under DeKalb County, which has 131 schools enrolling 92,088 students.
Black students account for 89% of the school's enrollment. Beyond that, enrollment is 6% Hispanic and 3% multiracial. The Black share of the county population is lower, at 51%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 20%.
There are about 10.9 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Rainbow Elementary School, which has 31. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Georgia is 13.3:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Rainbow Elementary School is about 100%. That is 23 points above the 77% average for public schools in DeKalb County.
Rainbow Elementary School's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 20.4% is 5.3 points below the 25.7% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
In DeKalb County, home to about 765,351 people, the median household earns about $80,644 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 47% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Public schools in DeKalb County number 154, with about 102,960 students.
Southwest DeKalb High School is about 0.2 miles from Rainbow Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 7 closest schools with test data, this one included, Rainbow Elementary School ranks 5th on average proficiency.
Locale data from NCES put Rainbow Elementary School in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
Enrollment figures show a rise of 24 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about open houses, carpools, and field trips at Rainbow Elementary School. Members of the school community can share what they know.
DeKalb County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
765,351
Census ACS
Median income
$80,644
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
47%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
154
102,960 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in DeKalb County
- Lakeside High SchoolHigh · 2,234 students
- Dunwoody High SchoolHigh · 2,012 students
- Chamblee High SchoolHigh · 1,867 students
- Cross Keys High SchoolHigh · 1,748 students
- Sequoyah Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,713 students
- Tucker High SchoolHigh · 1,614 students
Other schools in Decatur
- Decatur High SchoolHigh · 1,901 students
- Beacon Hill Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,285 students
- Southwest DeKalb High SchoolHigh · 1,237 students
- Druid Hills Middle SchoolMiddle · 985 students
- Columbia High SchoolHigh · 877 students
- Towers High SchoolHigh · 876 students
Other Rainbow Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 5 states are named Rainbow Elementary. Rainbow Elementary School is the 4th largest of the 5.
- RAINBOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWINTER SPRINGS, FL · 729 students
- Rainbow Elementary SchoolMadison, AL · 725 students
- Rainbow Elementary SchoolCoatesville, PA · 684 students
- Rainbow Elementary SchoolCLINTON TOWNSHIP, MI · 254 students
Nearby schools
- Southwest DeKalb High School0.2 mi · 1,237
- DeKalb Brilliance Academy0.6 mi · 357
- The Anchor School1.1 mi · 208
- Canby Lane Elementary School1.2 mi · 446
- Bob Mathis Elementary School1.4 mi · 368
- Columbia Middle School1.7 mi · 571
Frequently asked questions
About Rainbow Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Rainbow Elementary School?
Rainbow Elementary School enrolls approximately 337 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Rainbow Elementary School serve?
Rainbow Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Rainbow Elementary School have?
Rainbow Elementary School employs 31 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Rainbow Elementary School?
Student demographics at Rainbow Elementary School are roughly 6% Hispanic, 89% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Rainbow Elementary School public or private?
Rainbow Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by DeKalb County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.