Jordan Middle School

As a moderately sized 6-8 campus in Lawrenceville, Georgia, Jordan Middle School enrolls 757 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within Gwinnett County.

Jordan Middle School is one of 141 schools operated by Gwinnett County, a district that enrolls 182,518 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Jordan Middle School shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 45%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school records 42% Black, 8% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.1:1 average. Roughly 83% of students at Jordan Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Gwinnett County (around 60%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Jordan Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.2%, the actual is 38.0%, a residual of +3.8 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Gwinnett County indicate the typical household earns roughly $87,890 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Jordan Middle School is one of 150 public schools in Gwinnett County (combined enrollment of about 196,924 students).

Jenkins Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Jordan Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Jordan Middle School at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 27.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Jordan Middle School has contracted 20%, going from 942 students in 2018 to 757 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 36% to 45%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

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