Smoke Rise Elementary School

Set in Stone Mountain, Georgia, Smoke Rise Elementary School is a moderately sized elementary-level community, overseen by DeKalb County. It teaches 539 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Within DeKalb County, which oversees 131 schools and 92,088 students, Smoke Rise Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Smoke Rise Elementary School reports that the largest single group is Black at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 37% Hispanic, 11% White, 5% multiracial, 5% Asian. That is considerably less Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. An estimated 84% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Smoke Rise Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 34.9%.

Across the wider 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 Smoke Rise Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Tucker Middle School, roughly 1.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Smoke Rise Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Smoke Rise Elementary School at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 36.7%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 36%: 397 students in 2018 compared to 539 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 50% to 42%.

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