Rainbow Elementary School

Rainbow Elementary School, a cozy elementary campus in Decatur, Georgia, run under DeKalb County, instructs 337 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 44% leaner than the state mean of about 605.

DeKalb County runs 131 schools in total, collectively educating 92,088 students. Rainbow Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Rainbow Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (89%). The remainder is composed of 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, DeKalb County as a whole is about 51% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting Rainbow Elementary School tighter 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. That share is above DeKalb County's rate of about 77%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Rainbow 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 20.4%, a residual of -5.3 points.

In the broader 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, DeKalb County runs 154 public schools (combined enrollment of about 102,960 students), of which Rainbow Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Southwest DeKalb High School, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rainbow Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Rainbow Elementary School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 22.3%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Rainbow Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 22% since 2018, when it stood at 430 (now 337). Black enrollment moved from 95% to 89% across the same window.

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