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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Berkeley Lake Elementary School this year?
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Enrollment
838
Elementary
DISTRICT 956 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GWINNETT COUNTY·NCES 130255001931
Berkeley Lake Elementary School
4300 S Berkeley Lake Rd NW, Duluth, GA 30096 · (770) 446-0947 · Gwinnett County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL838 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
64 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
55%
458 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 | 44 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 124 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 108 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 132 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 160 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 141 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 129 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (124) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (129).
Student demographics
72%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
39.5%
GA avg 40.1% . -8.0pp since 2021
Math
49.3%
GA avg 44.6% . +4.2pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 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 8 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 4 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.5% | 49.3% |
| 2023-24 | 48.2% | 50.0% |
| 2022-23 | 46.9% | 50.8% |
| 2021-22 | 47.4% | 45.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
46.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.1%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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 Berkeley Lake Elementary School
Berkeley Lake Elementary School's state test result (46.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Lake Elementary School this school | 838 | 54.7% | 46.7% |
| Sycamore Elementary School Sugar Hill | 751 | 61.7% | 45.8% |
| Walnut Grove Elementary School Suwanee | 819 | 57.3% | 58.2% |
| Cumming Elementary School Cumming | 900 | 59.8% | 40.8% |
| Rock Springs Elementary School Lawrenceville | 801 | 62.9% | 45.6% |
| Taylor Elementary School Lawrenceville | 883 | 63.0% | 52.4% |
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 Berkeley Lake Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Gwinnett County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 46.7% | #404 of 1,208 | #44 of 84 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.3% | #420 of 1,215 ▼ 4 | #43 of 84 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.5% | #481 of 1,215 ▼ 124 | #47 of 84 ▼ 9 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.9pp | #285 of 1,183 | #31 of 83 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 838 | #191 of 1,324 | #53 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #559 of 1,301 | #50 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.0% | #78 of 1,301 | #29 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 54.7% | #1,000 of 1,312 | #59 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.6% | #689 of 854 | #36 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
838
+69 (+9%) vs 2020
-21% since 1990-91, when it was 1,056
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
was 12.8:1
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 | 838 | 64 | 13.1:1 | 55% (458) |
| 2023-24 | 808 | 65 | 12.4:1 | 54% (436) |
| 2022-23 | 819 | 64 | 12.8:1 | 52% (427) |
| 2020-21 | 769 | 60 | 12.8:1 | 52% (400) |
| 2017-18 | 888 | 62.8 | 14.1:1 | 59% (524) |
| 2015-16 | 1,099 | 75 | 14.7:1 | 60% (660) |
| 2010-11 | 1,138 | 77 | 14.8:1 | 60% (681) |
| 2000-01 | 1,138 | 79 | 14.4:1 | 13% (146) |
| 1990-91 | 1,056 | 59 | 17.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Berkeley Lake Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (888 to 838); teachers up 2% (62.8 to 64).
About Berkeley Lake Elementary School
Berkeley Lake Elementary School is an elementary school located in Duluth, Georgia, in Gwinnett County. It offers pre-K through 5 and has 838 students enrolled. It has 39% more students than the average for elementary schools in Georgia (about 605).
Gwinnett County serves 182,518 students across 141 schools.
No group is above 50% at Berkeley Lake Elementary School; the largest is Hispanic, at 42%. The rest of enrollment is 23% White, 18% Black, 10% Asian, and 6% multiracial. Among all residents of Gwinnett County, the Hispanic share is about 24%. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 72%.
The school's 64 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.1:1. The ratio is within a point of the 13.3:1 average for elementary schools in Georgia. At Berkeley Lake Elementary School, 55% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 46.7%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 49.1%.
Gwinnett County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $87,890 a year, roughly 39% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 9%. Berkeley Lake Elementary School shares Gwinnett County with 149 other public schools.
Of the public schools around it, Berkeley Lake Elementary School is closest to Norcross High School, about 1.7 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, Berkeley Lake Elementary School is 1st of 8 nearby schools with test data.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is 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 rose 9%.
The Berkeley Lake Elementary School discussion page is a place for homework, tutoring, and testing dates. You can also rate the school on this page.
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 Duluth
- Georgia Connections Academy (Virtual)Combined · 7,148 students
- Duluth High SchoolHigh · 2,556 students
- Northview High SchoolHigh · 1,591 students
- Radloff Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,315 students
- Hull Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,267 students
- McClure Health Science High SchoolHigh · 1,237 students
Nearby schools
- Norcross High School1.7 mi · 2,317
- Duluth Middle School1.7 mi · 1,201
- Gwinnett Intervention Education Center (GIVE) West2.2 mi · 227
- International Charter Academy of Georgia2.5 mi · 268
- Pinckneyville Middle School2.5 mi · 1,157
- Norcross Elementary School2.5 mi · 751
Frequently asked questions
About Berkeley Lake Elementary SchoolHow large is Berkeley Lake Elementary School?
Berkeley Lake Elementary School enrolls approximately 838 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Berkeley Lake Elementary School serve?
Berkeley Lake Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Berkeley Lake Elementary School have?
Berkeley Lake Elementary School employs 64 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.1:1.
What is the student diversity at Berkeley Lake Elementary School?
Student demographics at Berkeley Lake Elementary School are roughly 23% White, 42% Hispanic, 18% Black, 10% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Berkeley Lake Elementary School public or private?
Berkeley Lake Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Gwinnett County.
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