Dacula Middle School

As a sprawling junior high in Dacula, Georgia, Dacula Middle School teaches 1,866 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within Gwinnett County. Enrollment runs roughly 145% bigger than the state mean of about 763.

Across the 141 schools in Gwinnett County (182,518 students total), Dacula Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Dacula Middle School shows that 48% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 27% Hispanic, 14% White, 6% Asian, 5% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

Looking at school resources, Dacula Middle School lists 117 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.1:1 average. An estimated 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Dacula Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.6%, the actual is 49.6%, a residual of +6.0 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Gwinnett County indicate median household income runs about $87,890, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Dacula Middle School is one of 150 public schools in Gwinnett County (combined enrollment of about 196,924 students).

Nearest neighbor: Dacula High School, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Dacula Middle School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 53.3%.

Dacula Middle School operates from an outer-ring location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Dacula Middle School's enrollment has rose 14% since 2018, when it stood at 1,644 (now 1,866). Over the same period, the White share fell from 27% to 14%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 today.

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