Jenkins Elementary School

Jenkins Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary-level community in Lawrenceville, Georgia, operated by Gwinnett County. The school serves 775 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 28% larger than the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 605 students.

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

Demographically, Jenkins Elementary School logs that 45% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 43% Black, 6% White, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.6:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Gwinnett County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Jenkins Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.5%, the actual is 31.6%, a residual of -2.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Gwinnett County put median household income runs about $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. Jenkins Elementary School is one of 150 public schools in Gwinnett County (combined enrollment of about 196,924 students).

The closest other public school is Jordan Middle School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Jenkins Elementary School comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 28.6%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Jenkins Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 15% since 2018, when it stood at 917 (now 775). The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 37% to 45% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 in 2025.

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