DeKalb GA News

There were 17,869 ninth grade students enrolled in DeKalb County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 5.3% less than the previous year, according to reports from the Georgia Department of Education.

Cross Keys High School welcomed the largest number of ninth grade students among county schools, registering 1,351 students during the 2022-23 school year.

Within DeKalb County schools, the highest student count was found in ninth grade, with the smallest class sizes seen in 12th grade.

Statewide, DeKalb County ranked fourth in enrollment numbers, with a total of 197,406 students enrolled in the 2022-23 school year. It was also ranked fourth the year before.

According to the Georgia Department of Education, over 1.6 million students were enrolled in Georgia's public schools during the 2021-22 school year. The state boasted a diverse and closely distributed student body across grade levels, with roughly 44% of the students in elementary, 24.5% in middle school, and 31.5% in high schools.

The state also registered an ethnically diverse student body, with 34.4% of the students identified as white, 36.5% as Black, 17.1% as Hispanic, and 4.5% as Asian.

School name	# of 9th Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Cross Keys High School	1,351	39.7%	3,405
Lakeside High School	1,340	31.6%	4,242
Tucker High School	1,077	34.8%	3,093
Dunwoody High School	1,046	25.8%	4,054
Decatur High School	1,025	27.8%	3,690
Chamblee Charter High School	966	27.4%	3,524
Lithonia High School	950	32.6%	2,910
Clarkston High School	947	34%	2,787
Martin Luther King Jr. High School	893	31.1%	2,873
Stephenson High School	864	32.2%	2,681
Miller Grove High School	791	34.5%	2,296
Druid Hills High School	765	28.2%	2,708
Arabia Mountain High School - Academy of Engineering- Medic	743	31.9%	2,332
Southwest DeKalb High School	727	28.2%	2,576
Stone Mountain High School	726	31%	2,345
Cedar Grove High School	666	30.2%	2,208
Redan High School	612	32.3%	1,896
McNair High School	575	39.5%	1,454
Columbia High School	544	31.5%	1,728
Towers High School	472	31.4%	1,501
Charles Drew Charter JA/SR Academy	262	14.2%	1,850
Dekalb Early College Academy	130	22.6%	575
DeKalb School of the Arts	130	21.7%	600
DeKalb Alternative School	116	36.7%	316
Tapestry Public Charter School	92	15.6%	590
Georgia Fugees Academy Charter School	27	8.7%	311
Atlanta Area School for the Deaf	22	10.7%	205
UHS of Laurel Heights	10	22.7%	44
Margaret Harris Comprehensive School	0	0%	37
East DeKalb Special Education Center	0	0%	10
Elizabeth Andrews High School	0	0%	537