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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Jackson Elementary School this year?
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Enrollment
1,430
Elementary
DISTRICT 956 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GWINNETT COUNTY·NCES 130255000973
Jackson Elementary School
1970 Sever Rd, Lawrenceville, GA 30043 · (770) 682-4200 · Gwinnett County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,430 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
107 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
70%
1,004 students
DISTRICT 63% · 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 | 17 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 197 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 214 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 234 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 241 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 252 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 275 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (197) is 28% smaller than its 5th grade class (275).
Student demographics
72%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
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
45.0%
GA avg 40.1% . +0.7pp since 2021
Math
51.1%
GA avg 44.6% . -1.0pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 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 down about 1 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 45.0% | 51.1% |
| 2023-24 | 48.2% | 54.9% |
| 2022-23 | 44.7% | 53.7% |
| 2021-22 | 44.2% | 52.1% |
% 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
51.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.1%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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 Jackson Elementary School
Jackson Elementary School's state test result (51.4% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jackson Elementary School this school | 1,430 | 70.2% | 51.4% |
| Woodward Mill Elementary School Lawrenceville | 1,106 | 60.6% | 56.5% |
| Knight Elementary School Lilburn | 876 | 69.6% | 49.1% |
| McKendree Elementary School Lawrenceville | 1,030 | 71.8% | 39.2% |
| Alcova Elementary School Dacula | 1,467 | 70.1% | 40.4% |
| Dacula Elementary School Dacula | 1,159 | 64.4% | 40.0% |
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 Jackson Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Gwinnett County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.4% | #317 of 1,208 | #36 of 84 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.1% | #383 of 1,215 ▼ 46 | #40 of 84 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 45.0% | #353 of 1,215 ▲ 6 | #41 of 84 ▼ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -0.1pp | #418 of 1,183 | #52 of 83 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,430 | #10 of 1,324 | #6 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.4:1 | #653 of 1,301 | #64 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.1% | #75 of 1,301 | #28 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 70.2% | #830 of 1,312 | #39 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.6% | #549 of 854 | #26 of 53 |
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
1,430
-51 (-3%) vs 2020
-5% since 2000-01, when it was 1,505
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
was 15.8:1
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 | 1,430 | 106.5 | 13.4:1 | 70% (1,004) |
| 2023-24 | 1,459 | 109.1 | 13.4:1 | 73% (1,066) |
| 2022-23 | 1,491 | 101.6 | 14.7:1 | 62% (923) |
| 2020-21 | 1,481 | 94 | 15.8:1 | 53% (792) |
| 2017-18 | 1,581 | 95.5 | 16.6:1 | 63% (989) |
| 2015-16 | 1,755 | 104 | 16.9:1 | 63% (1,111) |
| 2010-11 | 1,725 | 103 | 16.8:1 | 52% (897) |
| 2000-01 | 1,505 | 94 | 16.0:1 | 12% (188) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Jackson Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (1,581 to 1,430); teachers up 12% (95.5 to 106.5).
About Jackson Elementary School
Jackson Elementary School is a large elementary school in Lawrenceville, Georgia, administered by Gwinnett County. It enrolls 1,430 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are pre-K through 5. That puts enrollment 136% above the 605-student average for elementary schools in Georgia.
Federal data list 141 schools in Gwinnett County, with 182,518 students enrolled.
Of every 100 students at Jackson Elementary School, about 41 are Hispanic, the largest group. After that, the student body is 26% Black, 17% Asian, 11% White, and 5% multiracial. Census figures show Gwinnett County is about 24% Hispanic. A diversity index of 72% means there is a 72% chance two randomly chosen students at Jackson Elementary School are from different groups.
The school lists 106.5 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.4:1. The ratio is within a point of the 13.3:1 average for elementary schools in Georgia. A total of 1,004 students, or 70%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 60% for public schools in Gwinnett County.
Jackson Elementary School sits between the top and bottom 10% of Georgia schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 51.4% and a predicted 41.1%.
In the wider Gwinnett County area, the median household earns about $87,890 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 39% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 9%. Jackson Elementary School shares Gwinnett County with 149 other public schools.
Among nearby public schools, Northbrook Middle School is closest at about 1.3 miles. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Jackson Elementary School. Among the 8 closest schools with test data, this one included, Jackson Elementary School ranks 4th on average proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 3%, from 1,481 to 1,430. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio dropped to 13.4:1, from 15.8:1.
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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 Lawrenceville
- Archer High SchoolHigh · 3,058 students
- Discovery High SchoolHigh · 2,703 students
- Central Gwinnett High SchoolHigh · 2,414 students
- Mountain View High SchoolHigh · 2,221 students
- Gwinnett Online CampusCombined · 1,996 students
- Richards Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,974 students
Other Jackson Elementary schools
41 other US public schools in 20 states are named Jackson Elementary. Jackson Elementary School is the largest of the 42.
- Jackson Elementary SchoolJackson, GA · 503 students
- Jackson Elementary SchoolAtlanta, GA · 502 students
- Jackson Elementary SchoolRoswell, GA · 489 students
- Jackson Elementary SchoolPLANO, TX · 705 students
- Jackson ElementarySHAKOPEE, MN · 683 students
Nearby schools
- Northbrook Middle School1.3 mi · 944
- Georgia Connections Academy (Virtual)1.8 mi · 7,148
- McKendree Elementary School2.1 mi · 1,030
- Peachtree Ridge High School2.3 mi · 3,155
- Parsons Elementary School2.4 mi · 882
- Gwinnett School of Mathematics- Science and Technology2.5 mi · 1,304
Frequently asked questions
About Jackson Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Jackson Elementary School?
Jackson Elementary School enrolls approximately 1,430 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Jackson Elementary School serve?
Jackson Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Jackson Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Jackson Elementary School is approximately 13.4:1 (107 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Jackson Elementary School?
At Jackson Elementary School, the student body is approximately 11% White, 41% Hispanic, 26% Black, 17% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Jackson Elementary School public or private?
Jackson Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Gwinnett County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.