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Enrollment
1,758
Middle
DISTRICT 1,431 · STATE 763
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GWINNETT COUNTY·NCES 130255003388
Jones Middle School
3575 Ridge Rd, Buford, GA 30519 · (770) 904-5450 · Gwinnett County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,758 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
115 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 14.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
44%
767 students
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 74%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 572 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 609 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 577 | 33% |
Student demographics
77%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
Jones Middle School→Seckinger High School
Feeds from
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
62.8%
GA avg 40.1% . +0.5pp since 2021
Math
69.5%
GA avg 44.6% . +5.7pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 70 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 up about 6 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 62.8% | 69.5% |
| 2023-24 | 63.6% | 66.9% |
| 2022-23 | 62.9% | 61.5% |
| 2021-22 | 62.3% | 63.8% |
% 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
68.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.8%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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 Jones Middle School
Jones Middle School's state test result (68.7% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jones Middle School this school | 1,758 | 43.6% | 68.7% |
| Crews Middle School Lawrenceville | 1,443 | 41.3% | 77.7% |
| Five Forks Middle School Lawrenceville | 1,239 | 48.5% | 69.7% |
| Osborne Middle School Hoschton | 1,816 | 36.6% | 70.0% |
| Trickum Middle School Lilburn | 2,204 | 62.2% | 61.0% |
| Lanier Middle School Sugar Hill | 1,369 | 50.5% | 70.5% |
Matched among Georgia middle 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 Jones Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Gwinnett County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 68.7% | #37 of 470 | #9 of 30 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 69.5% | #47 of 474 ▼ 1 | #8 of 30 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.8% | #44 of 474 ▲ 3 | #6 of 30 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +3.1pp | #286 of 465 | #12 of 30 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,758 | #8 of 487 | #7 of 30 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #338 of 471 | #19 of 30 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 76.9% | #2 of 471 | #2 of 30 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 43.6% | #402 of 479 | #25 of 30 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +83.1% | #2 of 144 | #1 of 14 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
1,758
+743 (+73%) vs 2020
+37% since 2010-11, when it was 1,280
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 16.6:1
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 | 1,758 | 115 | 15.3:1 | 44% (767) |
| 2023-24 | 1,744 | 107.2 | 16.3:1 | 45% (789) |
| 2022-23 | 1,562 | 91.7 | 17.0:1 | 36% (558) |
| 2020-21 | 1,015 | 61 | 16.6:1 | 31% (311) |
| 2017-18 | 960 | 60.6 | 15.8:1 | 30% (286) |
| 2015-16 | 1,396 | 77 | 18.1:1 | 34% (470) |
| 2010-11 | 1,280 | 80 | 16.0:1 | 31% (403) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Jones Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 83% (960 to 1,758); teachers up 90% (60.6 to 115).
About Jones Middle School
Jones Middle School is a large middle school in Buford, Georgia, under Gwinnett County. The school reports 1,758 students in grades 6 through 8. The typical figure for middle schools in Georgia is about 763 students.
In Gwinnett County, 141 schools enroll a combined 182,518 students.
White students are the largest group at Jones Middle School, with 26% of enrollment. The remaining shares are 25% Black, 23% Asian, 21% Hispanic, and 5% multiracial. The chance that two students picked at random at Jones Middle School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 77%.
Teachers at the school number 115 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 15.3:1. Among middle schools in Georgia, the typical ratio is 14.1:1. The school's lunch program data list 44% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Gwinnett County is 60%.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Jones Middle School would score about 54.8%. It scores 68.7%, 13.9 points above that figure.
Gwinnett County census figures show that median household income is about $87,890, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 39% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 9%. A total of 150 public schools operate in Gwinnett County, serving about 196,924 students.
Of nearby public schools, Ivy Creek Elementary School is the closest, at about 0.4 miles. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Jones Middle School comes in 5th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for Jones Middle School is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal counts for Jones Middle School: 1,015 students in 2020-21, 1,758 in 2024-25. A gap this wide can follow a change in the grades offered. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio fell from 16.6:1 to 15.3:1.
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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 Buford
- Seckinger High SchoolHigh · 2,318 students
- Buford High SchoolHigh · 1,966 students
- Twin Rivers Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,669 students
- Ivy Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,507 students
- Buford Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,426 students
- Buford Senior AcademyElementary · 1,368 students
Other Jones Middle schools
4 other US public schools in 4 states are named Jones Middle. Jones Middle School is the largest of the 5.
- Jones Middle SchoolHUMBLE, TX · 1,235 students
- Jones Middle SchoolSAN ANTONIO, TX · 1,035 students
- Jones Middle SchoolUpper Arlington, OH · 733 students
- Jones Middle SchoolJones, OK · 237 students
Nearby schools
- Ivy Creek Elementary School0.4 mi · 1,507
- Patrick Elementary School1.5 mi · 999
- Friendship Elementary School2.1 mi · 673
- Seckinger High School2.2 mi · 2,318
- Harmony Elementary School2.5 mi · 614
- Puckett's Mill Elementary School2.7 mi · 794
Frequently asked questions
About Jones Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Jones Middle School?
Jones Middle School enrolls approximately 1,758 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Jones Middle School serve?
Jones Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Jones Middle School?
Approximately 15.3:1 students per teacher at Jones Middle School.
How diverse is Jones Middle School?
Jones Middle School reports a student body of 26% White, 21% Hispanic, 25% Black, 23% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Jones Middle School public or private?
Jones Middle 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.