Tapestry Public Charter School

Tapestry Public Charter School operates as a minimally staffed high school in Doraville, Georgia, run under DeKalb County. Current enrollment sits at 300 students spanning grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 1,120 students each, so Tapestry Public Charter School sits 73% smaller than that benchmark.

Within DeKalb County, which oversees 131 schools and 92,088 students, Tapestry Public Charter School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Tapestry Public Charter School shows that 47% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 27% Black, 20% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 29%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.2:1 average. Roughly 35% of students at Tapestry Public Charter School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against DeKalb County (around 77%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Tapestry Public Charter School is in the bottom 10% of Georgia public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 59.4%; Tapestry Public Charter School posts 30.9%, -28.6 points below that line.

Across the wider county, census data for DeKalb County shows median household income runs about $80,644, roughly 47% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Tapestry Public Charter School is one of 154 public schools in DeKalb County (combined enrollment of about 102,960 students).

Sequoyah Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Tapestry Public Charter School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Tapestry Public Charter School at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 33.1%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site. Tapestry Public Charter School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 46%: 205 students in 2018 compared to 300 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 8% to 20% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 6.2:1 in 2018 to 8.1:1 today.

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