Vanderlyn Elementary School

Vanderlyn Elementary School is one of the modestly sized elementary schools in Dunwoody, Georgia, operated by DeKalb County, with 441 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Vanderlyn Elementary School sits 27% smaller than that benchmark.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Vanderlyn Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White at 51%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 25% Asian, 10% Hispanic, 8% Black, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 29% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 10% of students at Vanderlyn Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below DeKalb County's rate of about 77%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Vanderlyn Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 72.4%; this one delivers 75.3%.

Around the school, DeKalb County reports that median household income runs about $80,644, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across DeKalb County's 154 public schools (combined enrollment of about 102,960 students), Vanderlyn Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Dunwoody High School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Vanderlyn Elementary School at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 48.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Vanderlyn Elementary School has fell 37%, going from 705 students in 2018 to 441 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share edged down from 39% to 25%.

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