Duluth High School

As a sizable high school in Duluth, Georgia, Duluth High School serves 2,556 students from grades 9 through 12, part of Gwinnett County. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 1,120 students each, so Duluth High School sits 128% larger than that benchmark.

Within Gwinnett County, which oversees 141 schools and 182,518 students, Duluth High School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Duluth High School records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 25% Black, 11% Asian, 11% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 24% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Duluth High School lists 155 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.2:1 average. About 61% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Duluth High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.6%, the actual is 42.7%, a residual of -2.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Gwinnett County shows the typical household earns roughly $87,890 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Gwinnett County runs 150 public schools (combined enrollment of about 196,924 students), of which Duluth High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Coleman Middle School, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Duluth High School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 49.7%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 7%: 2,760 students in 2018 compared to 2,556 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 34% to 49% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.5:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 in 2025.

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