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Enrollment
914
Elementary
DISTRICT 956 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GWINNETT COUNTY·NCES 130255004251
Baldwin Elementary
123 Price Pl, Norcross, GA 30071 · (678) 225-5500 · Gwinnett County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL914 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
75 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
81%
737 students
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 74%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 8 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 127 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 161 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 162 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 162 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 158 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 136 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (127) is 7% smaller than its 5th grade class (136).
Student demographics
25%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on published attendance-zone data from Gwinnett County. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
15.3%
GA avg 40.1% . -8.8pp since 2021
Math
29.4%
GA avg 44.6% . -4.0pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 15 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 29 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are down about 9 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 4 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 15.3% | 29.4% |
| 2023-24 | 20.5% | 30.0% |
| 2022-23 | 20.6% | 33.1% |
| 2021-22 | 24.1% | 33.3% |
% Proficient or Distinguished, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Georgia Milestones. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
24.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Baldwin Elementary
Baldwin Elementary's state test result (24.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baldwin Elementary this school | 914 | 80.6% | 24.0% |
| Graves Elementary School Norcross | 1,076 | 82.8% | 21.3% |
| Rockbridge Elementary School Norcross | 990 | 87.8% | 17.1% |
| Corley Elementary School Lawrenceville | 1,119 | 80.1% | 29.2% |
| John Robert Lewis Elementary School Brookhaven | 840 | 87.9% | 17.2% |
| Hopkins Elementary School Lilburn | 1,113 | 87.6% | 24.3% |
Matched among Georgia elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Baldwin Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Gwinnett County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 24.0% | #951 of 1,208 | #78 of 84 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 29.4% | #873 of 1,215 ▼ 32 | #75 of 84 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 15.3% | #1,122 of 1,215 ▼ 80 | #81 of 84 ▼ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -6.4pp | #86 of 1,183 | #13 of 83 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 914 | #124 of 1,324 | #43 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.2:1 | #315 of 1,301 | #23 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 25.0% | #1,133 of 1,301 | #87 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 80.6% | #705 of 1,312 | #23 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.6% | #315 of 854 | #12 of 53 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
914
-16 (-2%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
was 14.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 914 | 74.9 | 12.2:1 | 81% (737) |
| 2023-24 | 944 | 74.9 | 12.6:1 | 84% (789) |
| 2022-23 | 917 | 66.9 | 13.7:1 | 83% (760) |
| 2020-21 | 930 | 65 | 14.3:1 | 84% (778) |
| 2017-18 | 1,096 | 72 | 15.2:1 | 92% (1,006) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Baldwin Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 17% (1,096 to 914); teachers up 4% (72 to 74.9).
About Baldwin Elementary
Baldwin Elementary is a high-enrollment elementary school based in Norcross, Georgia. The latest federal count shows 914 students in pre-K through 5. The average for elementary schools in Georgia is about 605 students, so this school is 51% bigger than average.
The 141 schools of Gwinnett County, including Baldwin Elementary, enroll 182,518 students.
Hispanic students are the large majority at Baldwin Elementary, with 86% of enrollment. The next largest groups are 8% Black and 3% Asian. In Gwinnett County overall, about 24% of residents are Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at Baldwin Elementary belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 25%.
At Baldwin Elementary, 74.9 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 12.2:1. For comparison, elementary schools in Georgia average 13.3:1. Roughly 81% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 60% average for public schools in Gwinnett County is 21 points.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Baldwin Elementary is 11.6 points below its prediction. Actual: 24.0%. Predicted: 35.7%.
Census Bureau estimates for Gwinnett County show that median household income is about $87,890, roughly 39% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Baldwin Elementary is one of 150 public schools in Gwinnett County, which together enroll about 196,924 students.
The school nearest to Baldwin Elementary is Summerour Middle School, at a distance of about 0.2 miles. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On state test proficiency, Baldwin Elementary ranks 6th in a group of 8 nearby schools.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment was essentially flat over 4 years: 930 in 2020-21, 914 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.3:1 in 2020-21 to 12.2:1 in 2024-25.
The discussion area below is open to posts about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
Gwinnett County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
979,864
Census ACS
Median income
$87,890
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
150
196,924 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Gwinnett County
- Brookwood High SchoolHigh · 3,803 students
- Grayson High SchoolHigh · 3,627 students
- Parkview High SchoolHigh · 3,216 students
- Peachtree Ridge High SchoolHigh · 3,155 students
- Archer High SchoolHigh · 3,058 students
- North Gwinnett High SchoolHigh · 3,033 students
Other schools in Norcross
- Meadowcreek High SchoolHigh · 2,609 students
- Norcross High SchoolHigh · 2,317 students
- Paul Duke STEM High SchoolHigh · 1,509 students
- Summerour Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,319 students
- Graves Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,076 students
- Rockbridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 990 students
Other Baldwin Elementary schools
7 other US public schools in 6 states are named Baldwin Elementary. Baldwin Elementary is the largest of the 8.
- Baldwin Elementary SchoolBaldwin, GA · 422 students
- Baldwin ElementaryManassas, VA · 631 students
- Baldwin Elementary SchoolAUSTIN, TX · 582 students
- Baldwin Elementary SchoolROCHESTER, MI · 534 students
- BALDWIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLPARAGOULD, AR · 221 students
Nearby schools
- Summerour Middle School0.2 mi · 1,319
- Norcross Elementary School0.5 mi · 751
- Brookhaven Innovation Academy0.9 mi · 524
- Gwinnett Intervention Education Center (GIVE) West1.3 mi · 227
- Paul Duke STEM High School1.4 mi · 1,509
- Stripling Elementary School1.6 mi · 799
Frequently asked questions
About Baldwin ElementaryHow many students attend Baldwin Elementary?
Baldwin Elementary enrolls approximately 914 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Baldwin Elementary serve?
Baldwin Elementary serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Baldwin Elementary have?
Baldwin Elementary employs 75 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.2:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Baldwin Elementary?
At Baldwin Elementary, the student body is approximately 2% White, 86% Hispanic, 8% Black, 3% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is Baldwin Elementary in?
Baldwin Elementary is part of Gwinnett County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.