Salem Middle School

Salem Middle School is one of the mid-sized middle-grades schools in Lithonia, Georgia, one of the schools within DeKalb County, with 827 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

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

Looking at the student body, Salem Middle School lists that 92% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest reads as 5% Hispanic. 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, Salem Middle School logs 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. The state averages around 14.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. 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 north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Salem Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.7%; this one delivers 12.0%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for DeKalb County indicate median household earnings sit near $80,644, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, DeKalb County runs 154 public schools (combined enrollment of about 102,960 students), of which Salem Middle School is one.

Browns Mill Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Salem Middle School at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 23.0%.

Salem Middle School operates from a residential location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Salem Middle School has shrank 18%, going from 1,007 students in 2018 to 827 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 today.

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