Rock Chapel Elementary School

Set in Lithonia, Georgia, Rock Chapel Elementary School is a medium-sized K-5 school, run under DeKalb County. It caters to 524 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Rock Chapel Elementary School is one of 131 schools operated by DeKalb County, a district that teaches 92,088 students overall.

On demographics, Rock Chapel Elementary School records that 87% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest looks like 8% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, DeKalb County as a whole is about 51% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against DeKalb County (around 77%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Rock Chapel Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 21.8%.

In the broader community, DeKalb County reports that 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. Rock Chapel Elementary School is one of 154 public schools in DeKalb County (combined enrollment of about 102,960 students).

The closest other public school is Princeton Elementary School, roughly 2.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Rock Chapel Elementary School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 33.0%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 513 students in 2018 compared to 524 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 in 2025.

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