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What's the most underrated thing about Dacula Middle School that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
1,866
Middle
DISTRICT 1,431 · STATE 763
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GWINNETT COUNTY·NCES 130255001907
Dacula Middle School
137 Dacula Rd, Dacula, GA 30019 · (770) 963-1110 · Gwinnett County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,866 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
117 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 14.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
65%
1,217 students
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 74%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 641 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 603 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 622 | 33% |
Student demographics
67%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
Dacula Middle School→Dacula High School
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
49.5%
GA avg 40.1% . -0.3pp since 2021
Math
54.2%
GA avg 44.6% . +16.4pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2021, while math scores are up about 16 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 49.5% | 54.2% |
| 2023-24 | 52.3% | 51.0% |
| 2022-23 | 49.0% | 45.7% |
| 2021-22 | 49.8% | 37.7% |
% 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
49.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.6%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 50% 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 Middle School
Dacula Middle School's state test result (49.6% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dacula Middle School this school | 1,866 | 65.2% | 49.6% |
| McConnell Middle School Loganville | 2,009 | 58.8% | 49.5% |
| East Cobb Middle School Marietta | 1,352 | 66.5% | 36.1% |
| Campbell Middle School Smyrna | 1,368 | 56.5% | 41.1% |
| Creekland Middle School Lawrenceville | 1,693 | 65.0% | 45.2% |
| Shiloh Middle School Snellville | 1,592 | 78.1% | 31.9% |
Matched among Georgia middle 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 Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Gwinnett County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.6% | #117 of 470 | #15 of 30 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.2% | #113 of 474 ▲ 9 | #16 of 30 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.5% | #103 of 474 ▼ 6 | #16 of 30 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +8.1pp | #99 of 465 | #4 of 30 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,866 | #6 of 487 | #5 of 30 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.0:1 | #387 of 471 | #24 of 30 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.0% | #71 of 471 | #16 of 30 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 65.2% | #306 of 479 | #13 of 30 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +13.5% | #57 of 144 | #4 of 14 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
1,866
+54 (+3%) vs 2020
+377% since 1990-91, when it was 391
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
was 17.9:1
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 | 1,866 | 116.5 | 16.0:1 | 65% (1,217) |
| 2023-24 | 1,813 | 110.1 | 16.5:1 | 68% (1,228) |
| 2022-23 | 1,839 | 107 | 17.2:1 | 58% (1,069) |
| 2020-21 | 1,812 | 101 | 17.9:1 | 49% (884) |
| 2017-18 | 1,644 | 91.4 | 18.0:1 | 50% (818) |
| 2015-16 | 1,597 | 92 | 17.4:1 | 47% (758) |
| 2010-11 | 1,566 | 95 | 16.5:1 | 46% (716) |
| 2000-01 | 1,930 | 121 | 15.9:1 | 9% (171) |
| 1990-91 | 391 | 26 | 15.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Dacula Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 14% (1,644 to 1,866); teachers up 27% (91.4 to 116.5).
About Dacula Middle School
Students in Dacula, Georgia, attend Dacula Middle School, a large middle school. There are 1,866 students enrolled, covering grades 6 through 8. Across middle schools in Georgia, the average enrollment is about 763.
Gwinnett County enrolls 182,518 students in 141 schools, including Dacula Middle School.
No group is above 50% at Dacula Middle School; the largest is Black, at 48%. It is also 27% Hispanic, 14% White, 6% Asian, and 5% multiracial. Gwinnett County's residents are about 28% Black, 20 points below the school's share. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Dacula Middle School scores 67%.
There are 116.5 full-time-equivalent teachers at Dacula Middle School, giving a ratio of 16.0:1. Middle schools in Georgia have an average ratio of 14.1:1. By family income, 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Dacula Middle School is 6.0 points above the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 49.6% actual, 43.6% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Georgia.
Census data for Gwinnett County show the median household earns about $87,890 a year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of people live in poverty. Counting Dacula Middle School, Gwinnett County has 150 public schools.
Among nearby public schools, Dacula High School is closest at about 0.4 miles. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Dacula Middle School. By average proficiency, Dacula Middle School is 5th among 9 schools close by.
NCES describes the area around Dacula Middle School as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
By 2024-25, enrollment had risen to 1,866, from 1,812 in 2020-21. The ratio of students to teachers went from 17.9:1 to 16.0:1 over the same years.
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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 Dacula
- Dacula High SchoolHigh · 2,481 students
- Alcova Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,467 students
- Harbins Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,320 students
- Dacula Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,159 students
- Dyer Elementary SchoolElementary · 944 students
- Puckett's Mill Elementary SchoolElementary · 794 students
Nearby schools
- Dacula High School0.4 mi · 2,481
- Dacula Elementary School0.8 mi · 1,159
- Alcova Elementary School1.6 mi · 1,467
- Dyer Elementary School2.5 mi · 944
- Mulberry Elementary School3.3 mi · 763
- Freeman's Mill Elementary School3.7 mi · 1,011
Frequently asked questions
About Dacula Middle SchoolHow many students attend Dacula Middle School?
Dacula Middle School enrolls approximately 1,866 students in grades 06-08.
Is Dacula Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Dacula Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Dacula Middle School?
Approximately 16.0:1 students per teacher at Dacula Middle School.
How diverse is Dacula Middle School?
Dacula Middle School reports a student body of 14% White, 27% Hispanic, 48% Black, 6% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Dacula Middle School?
Dacula Middle School is overseen by Gwinnett County in Gwinnett County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.