The Anchor School

The Anchor School operates as a rural-scale 9-12 campus in Decatur, Georgia, run under State Specialty Schools II- The Anchor School. Current enrollment sits at 208 students spanning grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 1,120 students each, so The Anchor School sits 81% smaller than that benchmark.

The Anchor School is a school of State Specialty Schools II- The Anchor School, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

Demographically, The Anchor School lists that nearly all students (88%) are Black; the rest looks like 6% Asian, 3% Hispanic. 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, The school currently runs with 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.2:1, putting The Anchor School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against DeKalb County (around 77%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Around the school, ACS estimates for DeKalb County put the typical household earns roughly $80,644 per year, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, DeKalb County runs 154 public schools (combined enrollment of about 102,960 students), of which The Anchor School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Canby Lane Elementary School, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around The Anchor School.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area. The Anchor School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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