Woodridge Elementary School

Located at 4120 Cedar Ridge Trl, in Stone Mountain, Georgia, Woodridge Elementary School is a close-knit elementary-level community that works with 444 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by DeKalb County. Enrollment runs roughly 27% leaner than the state mean of about 605.

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

On the student-mix side, Woodridge Elementary School shows that 82% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder comes out to 12% Hispanic, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 51% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.8:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at Woodridge Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, DeKalb County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Woodridge Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.7%; this one delivers 18.9%.

Across the wider county, census data for DeKalb County shows the typical household earns roughly $80,644 per year, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across DeKalb County's 154 public schools (combined enrollment of about 102,960 students), Woodridge Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Mary McLeod Bethune Middle School, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Woodridge Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Woodridge Elementary School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 19.9%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Woodridge Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 24% since 2018, when it stood at 582 (now 444). Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 90% to 82%.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.