DeKalb actually did lose value during the recession

A Georgia State University group that reported only a slight decline in the per student net taxable “digest” values for the DeKalb County School District during and after the Great Recession now says it erred and that the county’s losses were actually about as high as that of other major metro Atlanta jurisdictions.

The decline for DeKalb was 24.25 percent from fiscal year 2009 to fiscal year 2014, the Center for State and Local Finance at Georgia State University said Monday.

The organization previously reported that DeKalb dropped less than a percentage point while the statewide per student digest dropped 17.5 percent and other major metro Atlanta jurisdictions fell much further: 31.7 percent in Clayton County and 27.8 percent in Gwinnett County, for instance.