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Enrollment
1,045
Elementary
DISTRICT 956 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GWINNETT COUNTY·NCES 130255000272
Craig Elementary School
1075 Rocky Rd, Lawrenceville, GA 30044 · (770) 978-5560 · Gwinnett County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,045 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 97% of Georgia public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- BThree-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
12.9:1
81 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
48%
500 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 | 47 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 151 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 146 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 137 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 174 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 197 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 193 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (151) is 22% smaller than its 5th grade class (193).
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
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
71.2%
GA avg 40.1% . +4.6pp since 2021
Math
69.3%
GA avg 44.6% . +1.2pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 1 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 71.2% | 69.3% |
| 2023-24 | 69.5% | 66.8% |
| 2022-23 | 69.3% | 68.2% |
| 2021-22 | 66.5% | 68.2% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of GA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
70.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.6%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 53% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in Georgia's top 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 Craig Elementary School
Craig Elementary School's state test result (70.1% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Craig Elementary School this school | 1,045 | 47.8% | 70.1% |
| Sugar Hill Elementary School Sugar Hill | 1,156 | 49.0% | 60.3% |
| Chattahoochee Elementary School Duluth | 1,133 | 48.4% | 54.6% |
| Gwin Oaks Elementary School Lawrenceville | 1,077 | 45.1% | 69.9% |
| Freeman's Mill Elementary School Lawrenceville | 1,011 | 56.9% | 68.1% |
| Patrick Elementary School Buford | 999 | 49.5% | 50.2% |
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 Craig Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Gwinnett County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 70.1% | #95 of 1,208 | #10 of 84 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 69.3% | #138 of 1,215 ▲ 21 | #17 of 84 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 71.2% | #65 of 1,215 ▲ 19 | #7 of 84 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.9pp | #533 of 1,183 | #17 of 83 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,045 | #62 of 1,324 | #29 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.9:1 | #490 of 1,301 | #44 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 77.1% | #8 of 1,301 | #8 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 47.8% | #1,057 of 1,312 | #65 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +1.9% | #340 of 386 | #30 of 31 |
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
1,045
+39 (+4%) vs 2020
+11% since 2000-01, when it was 942
Student : Teacher
12.9:1
was 13.8:1
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 | 1,045 | 81.1 | 12.9:1 | 48% (500) |
| 2023-24 | 1,084 | 84.4 | 12.8:1 | 48% (519) |
| 2022-23 | 1,087 | 83 | 13.1:1 | 36% (387) |
| 2020-21 | 1,006 | 73 | 13.8:1 | 31% (307) |
| 2017-18 | 1,026 | 71.3 | 14.4:1 | 34% (346) |
| 2015-16 | 1,011 | 73 | 13.8:1 | 32% (324) |
| 2010-11 | 1,075 | 75 | 14.3:1 | 30% (319) |
| 2000-01 | 942 | 61 | 15.4:1 | 5% (46) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Craig Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 2% (1,026 to 1,045); teachers up 14% (71.3 to 81.1).
About Craig Elementary School
Craig Elementary School is a large elementary school that serves part of Lawrenceville, Georgia. Grades offered run from pre-K through 5, with 1,045 students enrolled. The average among elementary schools in Georgia is roughly 605 students; this school is 73% larger than that.
Craig Elementary School belongs to Gwinnett County, a district of 141 schools and 182,518 students.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at Craig Elementary School. The largest is Black students, at 30%. Next come 25% White, 20% Hispanic, 18% Asian, and 7% multiracial. The Black share in Gwinnett County as a whole is similar, at about 28%. Craig Elementary School's diversity index is 77%, against a US figure of 70%.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.9:1 at Craig Elementary School, with 81.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is close to the 13.3:1 average for elementary schools in Georgia. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 48%. It compares with 60% for public schools in Gwinnett County.
Craig Elementary School is graded A+ by allk12, scoring above 97% of Georgia public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Craig Elementary School is 17.4 points above expectations on state tests, given its student poverty level, placing it in the top 10% in Georgia.
According to the American Community Survey, in Gwinnett County, the median household income is $87,890, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 39% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 9%. There are 150 public schools in Gwinnett County, enrolling about 196,924 students in all.
The closest public school, Crews Middle School, is about 0.6 miles from Craig Elementary School. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Ranked by average proficiency, Craig Elementary School places 2nd out of 9 schools in its immediate area.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment climbed 4% from its 2020-21 level of 1,006.
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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 Craig Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 4 states are named Craig Elementary. Craig Elementary School is the largest of the 4.
- CRAIG ELEM.ST LOUIS, MO · 423 students
- CRAIG ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSCHENECTADY, NY · 377 students
- Craig ElementaryCraig, AK · 82 students
Nearby schools
- Crews Middle School0.6 mi · 1,443
- Pharr Elementary School1.1 mi · 816
- Cedar Hill Elementary School1.7 mi · 896
- Richards Middle School1.8 mi · 1,974
- Brookwood High School1.8 mi · 3,803
- Oakland Meadow School1.9 mi · 68
Frequently asked questions
About Craig Elementary SchoolHow large is Craig Elementary School?
Craig Elementary School enrolls approximately 1,045 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Craig Elementary School serve?
Craig Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Craig Elementary School have?
Craig Elementary School employs 81 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Craig Elementary School?
Student demographics at Craig Elementary School are roughly 25% White, 20% Hispanic, 30% Black, 18% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Craig Elementary School in?
Craig Elementary School is part of Gwinnett County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.