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Alumni: what's one memory from Jenkins Elementary School that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
775
Elementary
DISTRICT 956 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GWINNETT COUNTY·NCES 130255004004
Jenkins Elementary School
12 Village Way, Lawrenceville, GA 30046 · (678) 407-8900 · Gwinnett County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL775 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 25% of Georgia public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- FThree-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
12.6:1
62 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
83%
642 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 | 16 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 116 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 127 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 116 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 136 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 133 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 131 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (116) is 11% smaller than its 5th grade class (131).
Student demographics
61%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
29.0%
GA avg 40.1% . -7.1pp since 2021
Math
34.3%
GA avg 44.6% . -8.8pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 34 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 7 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 9 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 29.0% | 34.3% |
| 2023-24 | 31.5% | 28.1% |
| 2022-23 | 30.3% | 34.0% |
| 2021-22 | 36.1% | 43.1% |
% 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
31.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.5%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% 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 Jenkins Elementary School
Jenkins Elementary School's state test result (31.6% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jenkins Elementary School this school | 775 | 82.8% | 31.6% |
| Lawrenceville Elementary School Lawrenceville | 677 | 81.4% | 22.5% |
| Simonton Elementary School Lawrenceville | 702 | 79.5% | 33.4% |
| Dowell Elementary School Marietta | 898 | 87.4% | 33.4% |
| Annistown Elementary School Snellville | 686 | 78.3% | 37.7% |
| Cedar Hill Elementary School Lawrenceville | 896 | 82.1% | 31.3% |
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 Jenkins Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Gwinnett County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.6% | #759 of 1,208 | #66 of 84 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 34.3% | #750 of 1,215 ▲ 135 | #66 of 84 ▲ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 29.0% | #750 of 1,215 ▼ 18 | #64 of 84 ▼ 5 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -7.9pp | #55 of 1,183 | #10 of 83 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 775 | #265 of 1,324 | #63 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.6:1 | #419 of 1,301 | #35 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.0% | #441 of 1,301 | #57 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 82.8% | #680 of 1,312 | #14 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.5% | #352 of 854 | #15 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
775
-16 (-2%) vs 2020
-20% since 2010-11, when it was 973
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
was 14.9:1
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 | 775 | 61.5 | 12.6:1 | 83% (642) |
| 2023-24 | 745 | 57 | 13.1:1 | 87% (646) |
| 2022-23 | 754 | 53.5 | 14.1:1 | 83% (627) |
| 2020-21 | 791 | 53 | 14.9:1 | 73% (579) |
| 2017-18 | 917 | 62 | 14.8:1 | 87% (797) |
| 2015-16 | 1,004 | 62 | 16.2:1 | 88% (883) |
| 2010-11 | 973 | 63 | 15.4:1 | 87% (843) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Jenkins Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (917 to 775); teachers down 1% (62 to 61.5).
About Jenkins Elementary School
The public elementary school Jenkins Elementary School is located in Lawrenceville, Georgia. It had 775 students in 2024-25, spanning pre-K through 5. Elementary schools in Georgia have about 605 students on average; enrollment here is 28% higher.
Jenkins Elementary School is one school in a 141-school district, Gwinnett County, which enrolls 182,518 students.
Of every 100 students at Jenkins Elementary School, about 45 are Hispanic, the largest group. It is also 43% Black, 6% White, 4% multiracial, and 2% Asian. For comparison, the population of Gwinnett County is roughly 24% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 61, compared with 70 nationally.
The school has 61.5 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 12.6 students per teacher. The average for elementary schools in Georgia is 13.3:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. The school reported 83% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. On average, public schools in Gwinnett County report 60%.
Jenkins Elementary School holds a C allk12 Grade, placing it above 25% of Georgia public elementary schools.
The model predicts 34.5% for a school in Georgia with Jenkins Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Jenkins Elementary School posts 31.6%.
In the surrounding county, Gwinnett County, the median household earns about $87,890 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 39%, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. Gwinnett County has 150 public schools with about 196,924 students, including Jenkins Elementary School.
Of the public schools around it, Jenkins Elementary School is closest to Jordan Middle School, about 0.2 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Jenkins Elementary School is 4th of 6 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
In the federal locale system, Jenkins Elementary School is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Compared with 2020-21, when it had 791 students, enrollment in 2024-25 was about the same at 775. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (12.6:1) than in 2020-21 (14.9:1).
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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 Jenkins Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Jenkins Elementary. Jenkins Elementary School is the largest of the 2.
- Jenkins Elementary SchoolScituate, MA · 341 students
Nearby schools
- Jordan Middle School0.2 mi · 757
- Gwinnett Online Campus1.7 mi · 1,996
- Simonton Elementary School1.7 mi · 702
- Gwinnett InterVention Education (GIVE) Center East1.8 mi · 334
- Lawrenceville Elementary School1.9 mi · 677
- Central Gwinnett High School2.1 mi · 2,414
Frequently asked questions
About Jenkins Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Jenkins Elementary School?
Jenkins Elementary School enrolls approximately 775 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Jenkins Elementary School serve?
Jenkins Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Jenkins Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Jenkins Elementary School is approximately 12.6:1 (62 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Jenkins Elementary School?
At Jenkins Elementary School, the student body is approximately 6% White, 45% Hispanic, 43% Black, 2% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Jenkins Elementary School public or private?
Jenkins 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.