Beaver Ridge Elementary School

Beaver Ridge Elementary School is one of the high-enrollment elementary schools in Norcross, Georgia, overseen by Gwinnett County, with 984 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 63% larger than the state mean of about 605.

Gwinnett County comprises 141 schools with combined enrollment of 182,518 students; Beaver Ridge Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Beaver Ridge Elementary School shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 72%; the rest comes out to 18% Black, 5% Asian, 3% multiracial, 2% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 77 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 82% of students at Beaver Ridge Elementary School qualify 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 above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Beaver Ridge Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 25.8%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Gwinnett County) reports that median household earnings sit near $87,890, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Beaver Ridge Elementary School is one of 150 public schools in Gwinnett County (combined enrollment of about 196,924 students).

Meadowcreek Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Beaver Ridge Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 27.3%.

Beaver Ridge Elementary School operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. Beaver Ridge Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 18% since 2018, when it stood at 1,201 (now 984). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 57% to 72%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 in 2025.

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