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Enrollment
1,133
Elementary
DISTRICT 956 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GWINNETT COUNTY·NCES 130255002082
Chattahoochee Elementary School
2930 Albion Farm Rd, Duluth, GA 30097 · (770) 497-9907 · Gwinnett County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,133 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
85 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
48%
548 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 | 41 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 172 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 195 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 165 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 183 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 181 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 196 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (172) is 12% smaller than its 5th grade class (196).
Student demographics
77%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
48.2%
GA avg 40.1% . -4.8pp since 2021
Math
58.1%
GA avg 44.6% . +3.4pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 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 5 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 3 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 48.2% | 58.1% |
| 2023-24 | 51.4% | 57.0% |
| 2022-23 | 48.6% | 54.0% |
| 2021-22 | 53.0% | 54.7% |
% 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
54.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.4%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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 Chattahoochee Elementary School
Chattahoochee Elementary School's state test result (54.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chattahoochee Elementary School this school | 1,133 | 48.4% | 54.6% |
| Patrick Elementary School Buford | 999 | 49.5% | 50.2% |
| Gwin Oaks Elementary School Lawrenceville | 1,077 | 45.1% | 69.9% |
| Craig Elementary School Lawrenceville | 1,045 | 47.8% | 70.1% |
| Sugar Hill Elementary School Sugar Hill | 1,156 | 49.0% | 60.3% |
| Brookwood Elementary School Snellville | 1,422 | 46.8% | 68.6% |
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 Chattahoochee Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Gwinnett County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.6% | #264 of 1,208 | #33 of 84 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.1% | #269 of 1,215 ▲ 31 | #32 of 84 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 48.2% | #299 of 1,215 ▼ 8 | #31 of 84 ▲ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -0.7pp | #369 of 1,183 | #45 of 83 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,133 | #37 of 1,324 | #19 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.4:1 | #649 of 1,301 | #62 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 77.3% | #5 of 1,301 | #5 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.4% | #1,053 of 1,312 | #64 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.7% | #263 of 854 | #8 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
1,133
-148 (-12%) vs 2020
+93% since 1990-91, when it was 588
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
was 14.9:1
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 | 1,133 | 84.5 | 13.4:1 | 48% (548) |
| 2023-24 | 1,119 | 86 | 13.0:1 | 50% (564) |
| 2022-23 | 1,107 | 83 | 13.3:1 | 42% (466) |
| 2020-21 | 1,281 | 86 | 14.9:1 | 39% (494) |
| 2017-18 | 1,393 | 87 | 16.0:1 | 48% (663) |
| 2015-16 | 1,212 | 77 | 15.7:1 | 44% (530) |
| 2010-11 | 1,154 | 77 | 15.0:1 | 38% (437) |
| 2000-01 | 1,339 | 91 | 14.7:1 | 10% (134) |
| 1990-91 | 588 | 34 | 17.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Chattahoochee Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 19% (1,393 to 1,133); teachers down 3% (87 to 84.5).
About Chattahoochee Elementary School
In Duluth, Georgia, Chattahoochee Elementary School is a high-enrollment elementary school. Classes run from pre-K through 5, and the school has 1,133 students. The average for elementary schools in Georgia is about 605 students, so this school is 87% bigger than average.
Chattahoochee Elementary School reports to Gwinnett County, which has 141 schools and 182,518 students.
Chattahoochee Elementary School has no majority group; Black students are the largest, at 29%. Other reported shares: 26% Hispanic, 22% Asian, 17% White, and 6% multiracial. The Black share in Gwinnett County as a whole is similar, at about 28%. Pick two students at random and there is a 77% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school employs the equivalent of 84.5 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 13.4:1. That matches the 13.3:1 average for elementary schools in Georgia fairly closely. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 48%. Public schools in Gwinnett County average 60%.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Chattahoochee Elementary School falls in the middle 80% of Georgia schools: 54.6% actual against 52.4% predicted.
Among Gwinnett County residents, the median household income is $87,890, roughly 39% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 9%. Chattahoochee Elementary School is one of 150 public schools in the county.
The closest public school to Chattahoochee Elementary School is Duluth High School, about 0.6 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 8 nearby schools with scores, Chattahoochee Elementary School ranks 4th on average proficiency.
In the federal locale system, Chattahoochee Elementary School is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
2024-25 enrollment was 1,133, a 12% decrease from 1,281 in 2020-21. Its ratio of students to teachers was 14.9:1 in 2020-21, and 13.4:1 in 2024-25.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news at Chattahoochee Elementary School. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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
Other Chattahoochee Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 2 states are named Chattahoochee Elementary. Chattahoochee Elementary School is the largest of the 3.
- Chattahoochee Elementary SchoolCumming, GA · 810 students
- CHATTAHOOCHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLCHATTAHOOCHEE, FL · 159 students
Nearby schools
- Duluth High School0.6 mi · 2,556
- Coleman Middle School1.0 mi · 711
- Yi Hwang Academy of Language Excellence1.3 mi · 459
- New Life Academy of Excellence1.4 mi · 645
- Shakerag Elementary School2.2 mi · 590
- River Trail Middle School2.2 mi · 1,098
Frequently asked questions
About Chattahoochee Elementary SchoolHow large is Chattahoochee Elementary School?
Chattahoochee Elementary School enrolls approximately 1,133 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Chattahoochee Elementary School serve?
Chattahoochee Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Chattahoochee Elementary School have?
Chattahoochee Elementary School employs 85 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.4:1.
What is the student diversity at Chattahoochee Elementary School?
Student demographics at Chattahoochee Elementary School are roughly 17% White, 26% Hispanic, 29% Black, 22% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Chattahoochee Elementary School public or private?
Chattahoochee Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Gwinnett County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.