DeKalb GA News

There were 15,452 10th grade students enrolled in DeKalb County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 9.9% more than the previous year, according to reports from the Georgia Department of Education.

Lakeside High School welcomed the largest number of 10th grade students among county schools, registering 1,156 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 10th Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Lakeside High School	1,156	27.3%	4,242
Dunwoody High School	1,143	28.2%	4,054
Chamblee Charter High School	979	27.8%	3,524
Decatur High School	916	24.8%	3,690
Cross Keys High School	912	26.8%	3,405
Lithonia High School	813	27.9%	2,910
Clarkston High School	801	28.7%	2,787
Tucker High School	779	25.2%	3,093
Martin Luther King Jr. High School	750	26.1%	2,873
Stone Mountain High School	703	30%	2,345
Druid Hills High School	694	25.6%	2,708
Stephenson High School	686	25.6%	2,681
Southwest DeKalb High School	637	24.7%	2,576
Arabia Mountain High School - Academy of Engineering- Medic	613	26.3%	2,332
Cedar Grove High School	591	26.8%	2,208
Miller Grove High School	538	23.4%	2,296
Redan High School	512	27%	1,896
McNair High School	462	31.8%	1,454
Towers High School	452	30.1%	1,501
Columbia High School	423	24.5%	1,728
Charles Drew Charter JA/SR Academy	259	14%	1,850
Dekalb Early College Academy	165	28.7%	575
DeKalb School of the Arts	149	24.8%	600
Elizabeth Andrews High School	115	21.4%	537
Tapestry Public Charter School	76	12.9%	590
DeKalb Alternative School	49	15.5%	316
Atlanta Area School for the Deaf	38	18.5%	205
Georgia Fugees Academy Charter School	31	10%	311
East DeKalb Special Education Center	10	100%	10
UHS of Laurel Heights	0	0%	44
Margaret Harris Comprehensive School	0	0%	37