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Enrollment
1,083
Elementary
DISTRICT 956 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GWINNETT COUNTY·NCES 130255001140
Bethesda Elementary School
525 Bethesda School Rd, Lawrenceville, GA 30044 · (770) 921-2000 · Gwinnett County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,083 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 60% of Georgia public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B+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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
82 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
82%
889 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 | 3 | 0% |
| Kindergarten | 182 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 178 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 184 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 189 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 170 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 177 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (182) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (177).
Student demographics
50%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
30.8%
GA avg 40.1% . -2.2pp since 2021
Math
45.8%
GA avg 44.6% . +11.2pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 46 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 2 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 11 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 30.8% | 45.8% |
| 2023-24 | 36.5% | 39.1% |
| 2022-23 | 32.7% | 42.0% |
| 2021-22 | 33.0% | 34.6% |
% 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
39.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.9%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% 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 Bethesda Elementary School
Bethesda Elementary School's state test result (39.1% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bethesda Elementary School this school | 1,083 | 82.1% | 39.1% |
| Minor Elementary School Lilburn | 952 | 81.0% | 26.8% |
| Beaver Ridge Elementary School Norcross | 984 | 81.9% | 25.8% |
| Chesney Elementary School Duluth | 1,165 | 78.6% | 31.2% |
| Kanoheda Elementary School Lawrenceville | 925 | 84.4% | 35.7% |
| Benefield Elementary School Lawrenceville | 1,209 | 79.6% | 36.5% |
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 Bethesda Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Gwinnett County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.1% | #573 of 1,208 | #53 of 84 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 45.8% | #499 of 1,215 ▲ 126 | #48 of 84 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 30.8% | #695 of 1,215 ▼ 89 | #59 of 84 ▼ 5 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +4.5pp | #423 of 1,183 | #14 of 83 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,083 | #52 of 1,324 | #24 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.2:1 | #604 of 1,301 | #57 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.8% | #793 of 1,301 | #74 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 82.1% | #692 of 1,312 | #18 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.4% | #591 of 854 | #28 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
1,083
-92 (-8%) vs 2020
+14% since 1990-91, when it was 950
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
was 14.0:1
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 | 1,083 | 81.8 | 13.2:1 | 82% (889) |
| 2023-24 | 1,105 | 86.3 | 12.8:1 | 84% (933) |
| 2022-23 | 1,148 | 88.5 | 13.0:1 | 78% (896) |
| 2020-21 | 1,175 | 84 | 14.0:1 | 76% (888) |
| 2017-18 | 1,182 | 81.5 | 14.5:1 | 85% (1,000) |
| 2015-16 | 1,246 | 83 | 15.0:1 | 85% (1,060) |
| 2010-11 | 1,214 | 85 | 14.3:1 | 85% (1,036) |
| 2000-01 | 1,115 | 79 | 14.1:1 | 32% (352) |
| 1990-91 | 950 | 49 | 19.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bethesda Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (1,182 to 1,083); teachers unchanged (81.5 to 81.8).
About Bethesda Elementary School
Bethesda Elementary School is a public high-enrollment elementary school in Lawrenceville, Georgia. School enrollment was 1,083 students in 2024-25, in pre-K through 5. For comparison, elementary schools in Georgia average about 605 students.
The district, Gwinnett County, has 182,518 students enrolled across 141 schools.
At Bethesda Elementary School, Hispanic students make up 68% of the student body. The next largest groups are 16% Black, 9% Asian, 4% White, and 3% multiracial. The school's Hispanic share is 45 points above the 24% share among Gwinnett County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 50% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Teacher staffing is 81.8 full-time equivalents, or about 13.2 students per teacher. That matches the 13.3:1 average for elementary schools in Georgia fairly closely. About 82% of students, or 889, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Gwinnett County is 60%.
Bethesda Elementary School is graded B by allk12, scoring above 60% of Georgia public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Bethesda Elementary School would score about 34.9%. It scores 39.1%, 4.2 points above that figure.
Federal survey data for Gwinnett County show that the median household income is $87,890, about 39% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. Gwinnett County is home to 150 public schools and about 196,924 public school students.
Nearest public school: Alford Elementary, about 0.9 miles away. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Bethesda Elementary School ranks 3rd of 9 on average proficiency.
NCES assigns Bethesda Elementary School the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
2024-25 enrollment was 1,083, an 8% decrease from 1,175 in 2020-21.
The allk12 site hosts a discussion page for Bethesda Elementary School covering things like sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. 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 Lawrenceville
- Archer High SchoolHigh · 3,058 students
- Discovery High SchoolHigh · 2,703 students
- Central Gwinnett High SchoolHigh · 2,414 students
- Mountain View High SchoolHigh · 2,221 students
- Gwinnett Online CampusCombined · 1,996 students
- Richards Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,974 students
Other Bethesda Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 5 states are named Bethesda Elementary. Bethesda Elementary School is the largest of the 5.
- Bethesda ElementaryBethesda, MD · 645 students
- Bethesda ElementaryThompson Station, TN · 561 students
- Bethesda ElementaryDurham, NC · 442 students
- Bethesda ElementaryWaukesha, WI · 401 students
Nearby schools
- Alford Elementary0.9 mi · 828
- Kanoheda Elementary School1.2 mi · 925
- Sweetwater Middle School1.2 mi · 1,470
- Baggett Elementary School2.0 mi · 1,019
- Berkmar High School2.1 mi · 2,975
- Gwin Oaks Elementary School2.2 mi · 1,077
Frequently asked questions
About Bethesda Elementary SchoolHow large is Bethesda Elementary School?
Bethesda Elementary School enrolls approximately 1,083 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Bethesda Elementary School serve?
Bethesda Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Bethesda Elementary School have?
Bethesda Elementary School employs 82 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.2:1.
What is the student diversity at Bethesda Elementary School?
Student demographics at Bethesda Elementary School are roughly 4% White, 68% Hispanic, 16% Black, 9% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Bethesda Elementary School in?
Bethesda Elementary School is part of Gwinnett County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.