Over 150 years of community history. The top-performing school in DeKalb County, with growing enrollment and falling costs. A flawed process is threatening to close it anyway.
Made by Oak Grove students and families
OUR ROOTS
The Oak Grove community goes back over 150 years, to before the Civil War. According to the DeKalb History Center, it was the only building in the area to survive Union forces. The current school has served families on this site since 1958, and generations of children have learned here and carried this place with them.
Today all of that is under threat. The school is performing better than ever, but the process pushing to close it doesn't care.
OUR KIDS
Oak Grove consistently outperforms the district on every metric that matters.
INCLUSIVE EDUCATION
That's far above the district average. These children have established IEPs, trusted therapists, and routines built over years. Displacing them means starting over with new teams and new environments, and gaps in services that can take months to fill.
IZA Institute of Labor Economics: School consolidation reduced student test scores by 5.9% of a standard deviation, with the most detrimental effects concentrated among students in small schools that were closed.
OUR COMMUNITY
Closing a school in the middle of a growth corridor makes no sense.
388 to 447 students in two years (2023-2025), and the only Lakeside cluster school with zero portable classrooms.
The Clifton Corridor has significant residential development underway, including multi-family units at Emory at Executive Park. That growth is only accelerating.
Arthur M. Blank Hospital ($1.5B, opened 2024), Emory at Executive Park ($1B+), and the MARTA Clifton Corridor BRT.
OUR FUTURE
The numbers the district is using to justify closure don't hold up.
At a public meeting on March 23, 2026, an HPM consultant admitted the recommendation to close Oak Grove was "nothing more than looking at the map and saying these are farther apart." Not enrollment data, not educational outcomes. We have audio. This firm has no educational expertise, and their recommendations could affect 27 schools.
SOLUTIONS
Alternatives that protect students and actually save money.
COMMUNITY VOICES
"Mrs. Kennedy stands at the front every morning and says hello by name to each student. A large school cannot provide any of this."
OGE Parent"This is an orchestrated grift, working just as it's designed to work. Our exact experience has played out in different districts in multiple states."
Samuel Howe, OGE Parent"Oak Grove ranks #1 in 3rd-grade reading. This school works. Our kids deserve to stay here."
OGE ParentACROSS DEKALB
The fight to save Oak Grove is part of a county-wide movement. Parents across Lakeside, Dunwoody, Tucker, and connected schools are all organizing because the SAP process threatens 27 schools.
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WHAT'S COMING UP
Show up when you can. Your presence matters more than you think.
Public input session. Speaker signups being coordinated. 25 slots available.
Strategic Asset Planning committee convenes. Time TBD.
Your vote determines who sits on the board that decides Oak Grove's future.
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