High · Georgia
Southwest DeKalb High School
Free meals for allSouthwest DeKalb High School, a public high school in Decatur, Georgia: grades 9–12, 1,237 students, 15.3 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of DeKalb County.
Size and class size
Compared with high schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 1,237
- Teachers (FTE)
- 81.0
- Students per teacher
- 15.3
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
Fewer students per teacher than 54% of high schools in Georgia
Median 15.7 · 484 schools compared
More students per teacher than 56% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 59% of high schools in Georgia
Median 1,072 · 484 schools compared
Larger than 80% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
State test results
No state test results published for this school: state tests cover grades 3–8, and small groups are not published.
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 9–12
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Large suburb
- Run by
- DeKalb County
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with DeKalb County.
Location
- Address
- 2863 Kelley Chapel Rd, Decatur, GA 30034
- Phone
- (678)874-1902
- County
- DeKalb County
Nearby high schools
The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
The Anchor SchoolCharterFree meals for all | 6–12 | 208 | 13.6 |
Columbia High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 877 | 13.9 |
DeKalb Regional Youth Detention CenterAlternative | 5–12 | 11 | 2.2 |
Martin Luther King- Jr. High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,370 | 16.3 |
Towers High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 876 | 16.5 |
Miller Grove High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,073 | 14.9 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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