Harbins Elementary School

Harbins Elementary School, a high-enrollment elementary school in Dacula, Georgia, overseen by Gwinnett County, instructs 1,320 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 118% larger than the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 605 students.

Gwinnett County comprises 141 schools with combined enrollment of 182,518 students; Harbins Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Harbins Elementary School logs that the largest single group is Black at 45%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 23% Hispanic, 22% White, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 28% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 96 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 56% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Harbins Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.6%, the actual is 48.4%, a residual of -0.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Gwinnett County) logs that median household earnings sit near $87,890, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Gwinnett County's 150 public schools (combined enrollment of about 196,924 students), Harbins Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Archer High School, around 2.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Harbins Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Harbins Elementary School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 42.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Five-year trend. Harbins Elementary School's enrollment has grew 5% since 2018, when it stood at 1,261 (now 1,320). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 47% to 22% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

On allk12, members of the Harbins Elementary School community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.