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Baggett Elementary School
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Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedWhat this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 34 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 9 points.
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Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 31% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Georgia's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Baggett Elementary School
Baggett Elementary School is a K-5 school of sizable scale in Lawrenceville, Georgia, run under Gwinnett County, enrolling 1,019 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Baggett Elementary School sits 68% bigger than that benchmark.
Baggett Elementary School is one of 141 schools operated by Gwinnett County, a district that educates 182,518 students overall.
Demographically, Baggett Elementary School shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 62% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 26% Black, 6% Asian, 4% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 24% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Baggett Elementary School has 82 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.4:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Gwinnett County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, Baggett Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 31.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 30.6%.
Across the wider county, Gwinnett County reports that the typical household earns roughly $87,890 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Baggett Elementary School is one of 150 public schools in Gwinnett County (combined enrollment of about 196,924 students).
Gwinnett School of Mathematics- Science and Technology is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Baggett Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Baggett Elementary School at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 43.7%.
The school occupies an outer-ring site.
Over the past 7-year window. Baggett Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 13% since 2018, when it stood at 1,167 (now 1,019). The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 46% to 62% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 in 2025.
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