Centerville Elementary School

Centerville Elementary School operates as a medium-sized K-5 school in Snellville, Georgia, overseen by Gwinnett County. Current enrollment sits at 655 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Centerville Elementary School is one of 141 schools operated by Gwinnett County, a district that serves 182,518 students overall.

Demographically, Centerville Elementary School reports that 50% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 31% Hispanic, 7% White, 5% multiracial, 5% Asian. By comparison, Gwinnett County as a whole is about 28% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Centerville Elementary School shows 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting Centerville Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 83% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Gwinnett County (around 60%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Centerville Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.7%, the actual is 33.8%, a residual of -0.9 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Gwinnett County indicate median household earnings sit near $87,890, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Gwinnett County runs 150 public schools (combined enrollment of about 196,924 students), of which Centerville Elementary School is one.

Norton Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Centerville Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Centerville Elementary School at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 37.0%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Centerville Elementary School has contracted 5%, going from 686 students in 2018 to 655 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 59% to 50%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 in 2025.

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