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What's the most underrated thing about Bay Creek Middle School that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
1,510
Middle
DISTRICT 1,431 · STATE 763
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GWINNETT COUNTY·NCES 130255003870
Bay Creek Middle School
821 Cooper Rd, Grayson, GA 30017 · (678) 344-7570 · Gwinnett County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,510 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 99% of Georgia public middle schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Georgia public middle schools
Student : Teacher
16.7:1
90 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 14.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
59%
891 students
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 74%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 510 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 467 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 533 | 35% |
Student demographics
59%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
Bay Creek Middle School→Grayson High School
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
61.0%
GA avg 40.1% . +3.1pp since 2021
Math
70.0%
GA avg 44.6% . +20.0pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 70 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 3 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 20 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 61.0% | 70.0% |
| 2023-24 | 63.6% | 69.1% |
| 2022-23 | 60.6% | 57.5% |
| 2021-22 | 57.9% | 50.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of GA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
72.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.9%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+26.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 47% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 26 points, placing it in Georgia's top 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 Bay Creek Middle School
Bay Creek Middle School's state test result (72.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bay Creek Middle School this school | 1,510 | 59.0% | 72.9% |
| Campbell Middle School Smyrna | 1,368 | 56.5% | 41.1% |
| McConnell Middle School Loganville | 2,009 | 58.8% | 49.5% |
| Dutchtown Middle School Hampton | 1,108 | 63.2% | 27.6% |
| Couch Middle School Grayson | 1,147 | 59.0% | 62.3% |
| Chapel Hill Middle School Douglasville | 1,036 | 58.8% | 48.1% |
Matched among Georgia middle 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 Bay Creek Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Gwinnett County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 72.9% | #18 of 470 | #3 of 30 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 70.0% | #44 of 474 ▼ 3 | #7 of 30 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 61.0% | #48 of 474 no change | #8 of 30 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +11.5pp | #34 of 465 | #3 of 30 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,510 | #21 of 487 | #12 of 30 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.7:1 | #426 of 471 | #27 of 30 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.2% | #194 of 471 | #22 of 30 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 59.0% | #332 of 479 | #18 of 30 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +32.7% | #14 of 144 | #2 of 14 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
1,510
+258 (+21%) vs 2020
+55% since 2010-11, when it was 973
Student : Teacher
16.7:1
was 18.7:1
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 | 1,510 | 90.2 | 16.7:1 | 59% (891) |
| 2023-24 | 1,391 | 81.6 | 17.1:1 | 63% (876) |
| 2022-23 | 1,330 | 80.7 | 16.5:1 | 52% (691) |
| 2020-21 | 1,252 | 67 | 18.7:1 | 43% (534) |
| 2017-18 | 1,138 | 61.4 | 18.5:1 | 44% (500) |
| 2015-16 | 1,127 | 59 | 19.1:1 | 44% (493) |
| 2010-11 | 973 | 53 | 18.4:1 | 42% (405) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bay Creek Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 33% (1,138 to 1,510); teachers up 47% (61.4 to 90.2).
About Bay Creek Middle School
Bay Creek Middle School is a public large middle school in Grayson, Georgia. Enrollment totals 1,510 students across grades 6 through 8. That puts enrollment 98% above the 763-student average for middle schools in Georgia.
In Gwinnett County, 141 schools enroll a combined 182,518 students.
At Bay Creek Middle School, 61% of students are Black. The remaining students are 14% Hispanic, 11% White, 9% Asian, and 5% multiracial. Census figures show Gwinnett County is about 28% Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Bay Creek Middle School scores 59%.
The school had 90.2 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 16.7:1. The gap from the 14.1:1 average for middle schools in Georgia is 2.6 students per teacher. The school reported 59% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The figure for public schools in Gwinnett County is close, at 60%.
Bay Creek Middle School holds an A+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 99% of Georgia public middle schools.
BeatsExpectations places Bay Creek Middle School in the top 10% of Georgia schools. The measure fits a line through proficiency and free or reduced-price lunch share for each state, and this school sits 26.1 points above it (72.9% actual, 46.9% predicted).
For the population of Gwinnett County, the median household earns about $87,890 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 39% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 9%. Bay Creek Middle School shares Gwinnett County with 149 other public schools.
Trip Elementary School is less than a tenth of a mile away, making it the nearest public school. Within five miles of Bay Creek Middle School, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 53.5%; Bay Creek Middle School's is 72.9%, ranking 1st of 9.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment increased 21%. By 2024-25, the school had 16.7 students per teacher, compared with 18.7 in 2020-21.
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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 Grayson
- Trip Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,589 students
- Starling Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,340 students
- Couch Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,147 students
- Grayson Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,095 students
Nearby schools
- Trip Elementary School0.0 mi · 1,589
- Grayson Elementary School1.3 mi · 1,095
- Couch Middle School2.0 mi · 1,147
- Starling Elementary School2.1 mi · 1,340
- Grayson High School2.1 mi · 3,627
- Grace Snell Middle School2.3 mi · 1,231
Frequently asked questions
About Bay Creek Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Bay Creek Middle School?
Bay Creek Middle School enrolls approximately 1,510 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Bay Creek Middle School serve?
Bay Creek Middle School serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Bay Creek Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Bay Creek Middle School is approximately 16.7:1 (90 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Bay Creek Middle School?
Bay Creek Middle School reports a student body of 11% White, 14% Hispanic, 61% Black, 9% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Bay Creek Middle School?
Bay Creek Middle School is overseen by Gwinnett County in Gwinnett County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.