Berkeley Lake Elementary School

Berkeley Lake Elementary School is one of the reasonably sized K-5 schools in Duluth, Georgia, part of Gwinnett County, with 838 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 39% bigger than the state mean of about 605.

Gwinnett County runs 141 schools in total, collectively educating 182,518 students. Berkeley Lake Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Berkeley Lake Elementary School shows that 42% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest reads as 23% White, 18% Black, 10% Asian, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 24% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Berkeley Lake Elementary School has 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.1:1. The state averages about 13.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 55% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Berkeley Lake Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 46.7%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Gwinnett County indicate the typical household earns roughly $87,890 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Berkeley Lake Elementary School is one of 150 public schools in Gwinnett County (combined enrollment of about 196,924 students).

Norcross High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Berkeley Lake Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Berkeley Lake Elementary School at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 32.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Berkeley Lake Elementary School has contracted 6%, going from 888 students in 2018 to 838 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share decreased from 15% to 10%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.

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