20 public K-12 schools in Lithonia from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Lithonia has more public-school enrollment than 89% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Lithonia's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.
12 of Lithonia's 20 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.
The 32-point gap between Leadership Preparatory Academy and Lithonia High School shows the range hidden by Lithonia's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.
Lithonia school enrollment ranges from 268 students (lowest) to 1,547 students (highest), a spread of 1,279 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
The reported share is above 87.5%, so economic need is widespread across the measured student population. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Lithonia's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Lithonia is typically wider than the Lithonia-aggregate figure suggests.
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Leadership Preparatory Academy | 56 |
| 2. | Redan Middle School | 45 |
| 3. | Edward L. Bouie- Sr. Elementary School | 44 |
| 4. | Shadow Rock Elementary School | 44 |
| 5. | Redan Elementary School | 42 |
| 6. | Arabia Mountain High School - Academy of Engineering- Medic | 41 |
| 7. | Marbut Elementary School | 41 |
| 8. | Miller Grove High School | 39 |
| 9. | Murphey Candler Elementary School | 37 |
| 10. | Browns Mill Elementary School | 35 |
| 11. | Salem Middle School | 33 |
| 12. | Martin Luther King- Jr. High School | 32 |
| 13. | Rock Chapel Elementary School | 31 |
| 14. | Fairington Elementary School | 30 |
| 15. | Princeton Elementary School | 29 |
| 16. | Lithonia Middle School | 28 |
| 17. | Stoneview Elementary School | 28 |
| 18. | Panola Way Elementary School | 28 |
| 19. | Flat Rock Elementary School | 25 |
| 20. | Lithonia High School | 24 |
Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.
Leadership Preparatory Academy has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Lithonia schools in this federal-data comparison at 56/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Lithonia has 20 public schools with a total enrollment of 15,006 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 16:1.
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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.
