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What's something Dacula Elementary School does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
1,159
Elementary
DISTRICT 956 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GWINNETT COUNTY·NCES 130255002125
Dacula Elementary School
2500 Fence Rd, Dacula, GA 30019 · (770) 963-7174 · Gwinnett County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,159 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 34% 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.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- DThree-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
13.5:1
86 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
64%
746 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 | 28 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 172 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 163 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 163 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 191 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 210 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 232 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (172) is 26% smaller than its 5th grade class (232).
Student demographics
73%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
30.9%
GA avg 40.1% . -11.0pp since 2021
Math
40.6%
GA avg 44.6% . -0.5pp 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 41 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 11 points since 2021, while math scores have held steady.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 30.9% | 40.6% |
| 2023-24 | 38.9% | 44.1% |
| 2022-23 | 39.3% | 44.7% |
| 2021-22 | 41.9% | 41.1% |
% 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
40.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.1%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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 Dacula Elementary School
Dacula Elementary School's state test result (40.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dacula Elementary School this school | 1,159 | 64.4% | 40.0% |
| McKendree Elementary School Lawrenceville | 1,030 | 71.8% | 39.2% |
| Taylor Elementary School Lawrenceville | 883 | 63.0% | 52.4% |
| Smyrna Elementary School Smyrna | 870 | 58.7% | 43.2% |
| Woodward Mill Elementary School Lawrenceville | 1,106 | 60.6% | 56.5% |
| Harbins Elementary School Dacula | 1,320 | 55.6% | 48.4% |
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 Dacula Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Gwinnett County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.0% | #555 of 1,208 | #51 of 84 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 40.6% | #611 of 1,215 ▼ 96 | #56 of 84 ▼ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 30.9% | #692 of 1,215 ▼ 140 | #58 of 84 ▼ 7 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -5.7pp | #107 of 1,183 | #16 of 83 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,159 | #33 of 1,324 | #17 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.5:1 | #668 of 1,301 | #67 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 73.2% | #49 of 1,301 | #25 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 64.4% | #892 of 1,312 | #44 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.9% | #806 of 854 | #48 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
1,159
+66 (+6%) vs 2020
+42% since 1990-91, when it was 816
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
was 15.6:1
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 | 1,159 | 86.1 | 13.5:1 | 64% (746) |
| 2023-24 | 1,183 | 89.6 | 13.2:1 | 66% (786) |
| 2022-23 | 1,188 | 82.1 | 14.5:1 | 56% (665) |
| 2020-21 | 1,093 | 70 | 15.6:1 | 45% (492) |
| 2017-18 | 1,181 | 67 | 17.6:1 | 45% (529) |
| 2015-16 | 1,205 | 68 | 17.7:1 | 44% (536) |
| 2010-11 | 1,338 | 82 | 16.3:1 | 38% (503) |
| 2000-01 | 931 | 60 | 15.5:1 | 10% (90) |
| 1990-91 | 816 | 46 | 17.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Dacula Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (1,181 to 1,159); teachers up 29% (67 to 86.1).
About Dacula Elementary School
Dacula Elementary School is a high-enrollment elementary school. Its address is in Dacula, Georgia. It had 1,159 students in 2024-25, spanning pre-K through 5. Elementary schools in Georgia average about 605 students, which makes this school 92% above average.
Dacula Elementary School is run by Gwinnett County, whose 141 schools enroll 182,518 students.
The student body at Dacula Elementary School has no majority group. Black students lead at 35%. The next largest groups are 30% Hispanic, 22% White, 7% multiracial, and 6% Asian. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 73%.
Dacula Elementary School reported 86.1 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 13.5:1. It is about the same as the 13.3:1 average for elementary schools in Georgia. Roughly 64% of students at Dacula Elementary School can receive free or reduced-price lunch.
Dacula Elementary School earns a C on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 34% of Georgia public elementary schools.
Dacula Elementary School is 4.1 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (40.0% versus 44.1%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Georgia.
Gwinnett County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $87,890 a year, roughly 39% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 9%. Dacula Elementary School shares Gwinnett County with 149 other public schools.
Of the public schools around it, Dacula Elementary School is closest to Dacula High School, about 0.6 miles away. Dacula Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Dacula Elementary School's average proficiency of 40.0% compares with 57.3% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Locale data from NCES put Dacula Elementary School in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
A 6% rise took enrollment from 1,093 in 2020-21 to 1,159 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 15.6:1 in 2020-21 to 13.5:1 in 2024-25.
On allk12, people connected to Dacula Elementary School can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
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 Dacula
- Dacula High SchoolHigh · 2,481 students
- Dacula Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,866 students
- Alcova Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,467 students
- Harbins Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,320 students
- Dyer Elementary SchoolElementary · 944 students
- Puckett's Mill Elementary SchoolElementary · 794 students
Nearby schools
- Dacula High School0.6 mi · 2,481
- Dacula Middle School0.8 mi · 1,866
- Dyer Elementary School2.0 mi · 944
- Alcova Elementary School2.2 mi · 1,467
- Freeman's Mill Elementary School2.9 mi · 1,011
- Mulberry Elementary School3.2 mi · 763
Frequently asked questions
About Dacula Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Dacula Elementary School?
Dacula Elementary School enrolls approximately 1,159 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Dacula Elementary School serve?
Dacula Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Dacula Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Dacula Elementary School is approximately 13.5:1 (86 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Dacula Elementary School?
At Dacula Elementary School, the student body is approximately 22% White, 30% Hispanic, 35% Black, 6% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is Dacula Elementary School public or private?
Dacula 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.