Rowland Elementary School

Rowland Elementary School is a compact K-5 school in Stone Mountain, Georgia, operated by DeKalb County. The school works with 390 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Rowland Elementary School sits 36% below that benchmark.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Rowland Elementary School lists that the largest single group is Black, at 71% of enrollment. Other groups include 16% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 2% multiracial. By comparison, DeKalb County as a whole is about 51% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Rowland Elementary School reports 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of DeKalb County's rate of about 77%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Rowland 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 26.1%, a residual of +0.4 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (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 the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, DeKalb County runs 154 public schools (combined enrollment of about 102,960 students), of which Rowland Elementary School is one.

DeKalb Preparatory Academy Charter is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rowland Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Rowland Elementary School at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 20.2%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 31%: 565 students in 2018 compared to 390 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 85% to 71% across the same window.

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