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Enrollment
453
Elementary
DISTRICT 556 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DEKALB COUNTY·NCES 130174000732
Stone Mountain Elementary School
6720 James B Rivers Dr, Stone Mountain, GA 30083 · (678) 676-4702 · DeKalb County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL453 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
12.9:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
453 students
DISTRICT 82% · STATE 74%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 24 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 74 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 60 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 79 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 74 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 64 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 78 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (74) is 5% smaller than its 5th grade class (78).
Student demographics
37%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on published attendance-zone data from DeKalb County. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
16.8%
GA avg 40.1% . +7.4pp since 2021
Math
19.2%
GA avg 44.6% . +11.5pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 17 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 19 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 12 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 16.8% | 19.2% |
| 2023-24 | 19.6% | 14.5% |
| 2022-23 | 12.7% | 17.1% |
| 2021-22 | 9.3% | 7.7% |
% Proficient or Distinguished, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Georgia Milestones. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
16.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 16% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Georgia's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Stone Mountain Elementary School
Stone Mountain Elementary School's state test result (16.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stone Mountain Elementary School this school | 453 | 100.0% | 16.3% |
| Canby Lane Elementary School Decatur | 446 | 100.0% | 27.6% |
| Woodridge Elementary School Stone Mountain | 444 | 100.0% | 18.9% |
| Eldridge L. Miller Elementary School Stone Mountain | 450 | 100.0% | 19.6% |
| Shadow Rock Elementary School Lithonia | 493 | 100.0% | 21.1% |
| Arnold Elementary School Jonesboro | 454 | 100.0% | 36.0% |
Matched among Georgia elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Stone Mountain Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In DeKalb County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 16.3% | #1,125 of 1,208 | #76 of 88 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 19.2% | #1,078 of 1,215 ▲ 59 | #64 of 88 ▲ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 16.8% | #1,091 of 1,215 ▼ 32 | #67 of 88 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +9.5pp | #155 of 1,183 | #12 of 88 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 453 | #964 of 1,324 | #59 of 97 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.9:1 | #507 of 1,301 | #43 of 94 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 37.0% | #988 of 1,301 | #51 of 94 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #179 of 1,312 | #26 of 97 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -22.0% | #197 of 854 | #32 of 73 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
453
-11 (-2%) vs 2020
-42% since 1990-91, when it was 777
Student : Teacher
12.9:1
was 12.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 453 | 35 | 12.9:1 | 100% (453) |
| 2023-24 | 442 | 30 | 14.7:1 | 100% (442) |
| 2022-23 | 450 | 29.5 | 15.3:1 | 100% (450) |
| 2020-21 | 464 | 38 | 12.2:1 | 99% (460) |
| 2017-18 | 581 | 39 | 14.9:1 | 83% (481) |
| 2015-16 | 564 | 34 | 16.6:1 | 93% (522) |
| 2010-11 | 573 | 36 | 15.9:1 | 95% (547) |
| 2000-01 | 817 | 41 | 19.9:1 | 71% (584) |
| 1990-91 | 777 | 43 | 18.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Stone Mountain Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (581 to 453); teachers down 10% (39 to 35).
About Stone Mountain Elementary School
Stone Mountain Elementary School is a public small elementary school in Stone Mountain, Georgia. It is open to students in pre-K through 5 and enrolls 453 students. It has 25% fewer students than the average for elementary schools in Georgia (about 605).
DeKalb County runs 131 schools with a combined 92,088 students. Stone Mountain Elementary School is one of them.
Federal enrollment data show Stone Mountain Elementary School is 78% Black. Next come 10% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 2% White, and 2% multiracial. The county population is about 51% Black. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 37%.
The school has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 12.9 students per teacher. The average for elementary schools in Georgia is about 13.3:1. The school reported 100% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. For comparison, public schools in DeKalb County average 77%.
Stone Mountain Elementary School is 9.4 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (16.3% versus 25.7%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Georgia.
In DeKalb County, the median household earns about $80,644 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 47%, and about 10% of people live in poverty. DeKalb County has 154 public schools with about 102,960 students, including Stone Mountain Elementary School.
About 0.6 miles separate Stone Mountain Elementary School from the closest public school, The Champion Middle Theme School. The five-mile area around Stone Mountain Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools average 35.1% on proficiency, and Stone Mountain Elementary School is below that at 16.3%.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment held near 453, starting from 464.
People can post here about homework, tutoring, and testing dates and other school topics. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
DeKalb County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
765,351
Census ACS
Median income
$80,644
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
47%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
154
102,960 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in DeKalb County
- Lakeside High SchoolHigh · 2,234 students
- Dunwoody High SchoolHigh · 2,012 students
- Chamblee High SchoolHigh · 1,867 students
- Cross Keys High SchoolHigh · 1,748 students
- Sequoyah Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,713 students
- Tucker High SchoolHigh · 1,614 students
Other schools in Stone Mountain
- Stephenson High SchoolHigh · 1,339 students
- Freedom Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,272 students
- Stone Mountain High SchoolHigh · 1,254 students
- Redan High SchoolHigh · 1,052 students
- Stone Mountain Middle SchoolMiddle · 986 students
- Rockbridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 900 students
Other Stone Mountain Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Stone Mountain Elementary. Stone Mountain Elementary School is the largest of the 2.
- Stone Mountain ElementaryHIGHLANDS RANCH, CO · 452 students
Nearby schools
- The Champion Middle Theme School0.6 mi · 782
- Stone Mill Elementary School1.2 mi · 601
- DeKalb Agriculture Technology and Environment School1.9 mi · 760
- Stone Mountain High School1.9 mi · 1,254
- East DeKalb Special Education Center2.0 mi · 165
- Elizabeth Andrews High School2.0 mi · 167
Frequently asked questions
About Stone Mountain Elementary SchoolHow large is Stone Mountain Elementary School?
Stone Mountain Elementary School enrolls approximately 453 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Stone Mountain Elementary School serve?
Stone Mountain Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Stone Mountain Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Stone Mountain Elementary School is approximately 12.9:1 (35 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Stone Mountain Elementary School?
Stone Mountain Elementary School reports a student body of 2% White, 10% Hispanic, 78% Black, 7% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Stone Mountain Elementary School in?
Stone Mountain Elementary School is part of DeKalb County.
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