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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Daves Creek Elementary School administration to hear?
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Enrollment
881
Elementary
DISTRICT 1,008 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FORSYTH COUNTY·NCES 130222001610
Daves Creek Elementary School
3740 Melody Mizer Ln, Cumming, GA 30041 · (770) 888-1222 · Forsyth County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL881 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 94% of Georgia public elementary schools
- A+Test 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.
- C-Three-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
13.2:1
67 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
8%
69 students
DISTRICT 22% · 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 | 5 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 91 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 105 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 112 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 185 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 182 | 21% |
| Grade 5 | 201 | 23% |
This year's kindergarten class (91) is 55% smaller than its 5th grade class (201).
Student demographics
34%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · 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
82.7%
GA avg 40.1% . -3.2pp since 2021
Math
90.7%
GA avg 44.6% . -3.1pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 83 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 91 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 3 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 3 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 82.7% | 90.7% |
| 2023-24 | 85.3% | 93.1% |
| 2022-23 | 87.0% | 93.4% |
| 2021-22 | 85.9% | 93.8% |
% 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
87.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
73.3%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 88% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 73% 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 Daves Creek Elementary School
Daves Creek Elementary School's state test result (87.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daves Creek Elementary School this school | 881 | 7.8% | 87.5% |
| Johns Creek Elementary Suwanee | 888 | 14.1% | 79.5% |
| Wilson Creek Elementary School Duluth | 854 | 14.9% | 83.1% |
| Shiloh Point Elementary Cumming | 955 | 12.3% | 71.5% |
| Shakerag Elementary School Johns Creek | 590 | 12.9% | 81.4% |
| Big Creek Elementary School Cumming | 745 | 15.7% | 77.8% |
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 Daves Creek Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Forsyth County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 87.5% | #3 of 1,208 | #1 of 23 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 90.7% | #4 of 1,215 ▼ 2 | #1 of 23 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 82.7% | #6 of 1,215 ▼ 1 | #1 of 23 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.1pp | #226 of 1,183 | #6 of 22 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 881 | #155 of 1,324 | #17 of 23 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.2:1 | #582 of 1,301 | #5 of 23 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 33.7% | #1,024 of 1,301 | #23 of 23 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 7.8% | #1,297 of 1,312 | #22 of 23 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -25.6% | #143 of 854 | #3 of 14 |
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
881
-318 (-27%) vs 2020
-1% since 2000-01, when it was 893
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
was 15.4:1
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 | 881 | 67 | 13.2:1 | 8% (69) |
| 2023-24 | 1,016 | 70.7 | 14.4:1 | 8% (85) |
| 2022-23 | 1,112 | 75.1 | 14.8:1 | 4% (39) |
| 2020-21 | 1,199 | 78 | 15.4:1 | 3% (40) |
| 2017-18 | 1,184 | 67.1 | 17.6:1 | 3% (34) |
| 2015-16 | 1,210 | 69 | 17.5:1 | 3% (31) |
| 2010-11 | 1,015 | 58 | 17.5:1 | 6% (65) |
| 2000-01 | 893 | 57 | 15.7:1 | 17% (149) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Daves Creek Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 26% (1,184 to 881); teachers unchanged (67.1 to 67).
About Daves Creek Elementary School
Daves Creek Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school in Georgia, with an address in Cumming. The school's 881 students are in pre-K through 5. Enrollment is 46% higher than the average for elementary schools in Georgia, which is about 605.
Daves Creek Elementary School belongs to Forsyth County, a district of 42 schools and 54,864 students.
Asian students make up 81% of enrollment at Daves Creek Elementary School. The remaining students are 10% White, 4% Hispanic, 3% Black, and 3% multiracial. Census figures show Forsyth County is about 20% Asian. Daves Creek Elementary School's diversity index is 34%, against a US figure of 70%.
Federal staffing data show 67 full-time-equivalent teachers at Daves Creek Elementary School and a ratio of 13.2:1. For comparison, elementary schools in Georgia average 13.3:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 8% of students. The rate at public schools in Forsyth County averages 21%, higher than here.
Daves Creek Elementary School is graded A by allk12, scoring above 94% of Georgia public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Schools in Georgia with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 73.3%. Daves Creek Elementary School scores 87.5%.
Census estimates describe Forsyth County this way: the median household income is $143,784, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Besides Daves Creek Elementary School, Forsyth County has 41 other public schools.
Of nearby public schools, South Forsyth Middle School is the closest, at about 1.5 miles. Daves Creek Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. The nearest schools with test data average 79.3%, lower than Daves Creek Elementary School's 87.5%.
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.
Daves Creek Elementary School's enrollment dropped from 1,199 in 2020-21 to 881 in 2024-25. Federal data show the ratio falling from 15.4:1 to 13.2:1.
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Forsyth County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
267,287
Census ACS
Median income
$143,784
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
42
54,864 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Forsyth County
- Lambert High SchoolHigh · 3,249 students
- South Forsyth High SchoolHigh · 2,634 students
- Denmark High SchoolHigh · 2,527 students
- West Forsyth High SchoolHigh · 2,503 students
- Forsyth Central High SchoolHigh · 2,457 students
- North Forsyth High SchoolHigh · 2,151 students
Other schools in Cumming
- South Forsyth High SchoolHigh · 2,634 students
- West Forsyth High SchoolHigh · 2,503 students
- Forsyth Central High SchoolHigh · 2,457 students
- North Forsyth High SchoolHigh · 2,151 students
- Sawnee Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,591 students
- Lakeside Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,513 students
Nearby schools
- South Forsyth Middle School1.5 mi · 1,319
- South Forsyth High School1.8 mi · 2,634
- Shiloh Point Elementary2.0 mi · 955
- Riverwatch Middle School2.1 mi · 1,455
- Lambert High School2.1 mi · 3,249
- Piney Grove Middle School2.1 mi · 1,024
Frequently asked questions
About Daves Creek Elementary SchoolHow large is Daves Creek Elementary School?
Daves Creek Elementary School enrolls approximately 881 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Daves Creek Elementary School serve?
Daves Creek Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Daves Creek Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Daves Creek Elementary School is approximately 13.2:1 (67 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Daves Creek Elementary School?
Student demographics at Daves Creek Elementary School are roughly 10% White, 4% Hispanic, 3% Black, 81% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Daves Creek Elementary School in?
Daves Creek Elementary School is part of Forsyth County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.