Public school / Primary
Columbia Elementary School
Decatur, Georgia
- NCES ID
- 130174000652
- District
- Dekalb County
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Columbia Elementary School is a public primary school in Decatur, Georgia, run by Dekalb County. It enrols 412 students — the 49131st largest of 2,332 public schools in Georgia.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
412
Teachers
34.0
Students per teacher
12.1
Free or reduced-price lunch
100.0%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Dekalb County
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Lakeside High School2,141 students
- 2Dunwoody High School2,040 students
- 3Chamblee High School1,776 students
- 4Sequoyah Middle School1,763 students
- 5Cross Keys High School1,714 students
- 6Tucker High School1,579 students
- 7Lithonia High School1,483 students
- 8Martin Luther King- Jr. High School1,440 students
- Enrollment−37.6%
- Teachers−26.1%
- Students per teacher−15.4%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+45.9%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory