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Enrollment
856
Elementary
DISTRICT 956 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GWINNETT COUNTY·NCES 130255003382
Lovin Elementary School
1705 New Hope Rd, Lawrenceville, GA 30045 · (678) 518-6940 · Gwinnett County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL856 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 81% of Georgia public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A-Three-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
11.6:1
74 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
72%
620 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 | 54 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 134 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 125 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 115 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 135 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 156 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 137 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (134) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (137).
Student demographics
63%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
45.5%
GA avg 40.1% . +7.2pp since 2021
Math
49.1%
GA avg 44.6% . +8.7pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 9 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 45.5% | 49.1% |
| 2023-24 | 45.0% | 43.6% |
| 2022-23 | 41.9% | 45.4% |
| 2021-22 | 38.3% | 40.5% |
% 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
48.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.9%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 Lovin Elementary School
Lovin Elementary School's state test result (48.7% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lovin Elementary School this school | 856 | 72.4% | 48.7% |
| Bay Creek Elementary School Loganville | 776 | 69.5% | 42.6% |
| Southwest Elementary School Savannah | 769 | 78.4% | 25.0% |
| Brumby Elementary School Marietta | 963 | 78.3% | 22.4% |
| Hiram Elementary School Hiram | 797 | 71.5% | 28.6% |
| Rice Creek School Port Wentworth | 1,011 | 74.6% | 26.1% |
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 Lovin Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Gwinnett County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.7% | #370 of 1,208 | #42 of 84 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.1% | #427 of 1,215 ▲ 101 | #44 of 84 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 45.5% | #342 of 1,215 ▲ 72 | #40 of 84 ▲ 5 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +7.9pp | #222 of 1,183 | #5 of 83 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 856 | #171 of 1,324 | #51 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.6:1 | #195 of 1,301 | #10 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.4% | #361 of 1,301 | #54 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 72.4% | #806 of 1,312 | #36 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.8% | #681 of 854 | #35 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
856
-11 (-1%) vs 2020
+5% since 2010-11, when it was 813
Student : Teacher
11.6:1
was 12.2:1
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 | 856 | 74 | 11.6:1 | 72% (620) |
| 2023-24 | 891 | 72.1 | 12.4:1 | 73% (648) |
| 2022-23 | 893 | 72 | 12.4:1 | 63% (563) |
| 2020-21 | 867 | 71 | 12.2:1 | 57% (492) |
| 2017-18 | 909 | 69.4 | 13.1:1 | 61% (552) |
| 2015-16 | 916 | 67 | 13.7:1 | 58% (527) |
| 2010-11 | 813 | 59 | 13.8:1 | 59% (476) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lovin Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (909 to 856); teachers up 7% (69.4 to 74).
About Lovin Elementary School
Lovin Elementary School, located in Lawrenceville, Georgia, is a mid-sized elementary school. The school has 856 students in 2024-25 across pre-K through 5. That compares with an average of about 605 students for elementary schools in Georgia.
Lovin Elementary School reports to Gwinnett County, which has 141 schools and 182,518 students.
At Lovin Elementary School, 53% of students are Black. Smaller groups are 27% Hispanic, 12% White, 5% multiracial, and 4% Asian. For comparison, the population of Gwinnett County is roughly 28% Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Lovin Elementary School scores 63%.
For every teacher at Lovin Elementary School, there are about 11.6 students; the school has 74 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, elementary schools in Georgia average 13.3:1. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 72%. On average, public schools in Gwinnett County report 60%.
Among Georgia public elementary schools, Lovin Elementary School outscored 81%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Lovin Elementary School would be expected to post about 39.9%. Its actual average proficiency rate across its state test results is 48.7%.
The county, Gwinnett County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $87,890, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 39% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 9%. The county has 150 public schools and about 196,924 students.
Archer High School, about 1.7 miles away, is the closest public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Lovin Elementary School places 7th of 9 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment held near 856, starting from 867.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about open houses, carpools, and field trips at Lovin Elementary School. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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
Nearby schools
- Archer High School1.7 mi · 3,058
- McConnell Middle School2.0 mi · 2,009
- Simonton Elementary School2.2 mi · 702
- Cooper Elementary School2.2 mi · 1,520
- Starling Elementary School2.9 mi · 1,340
- Grayson Elementary School2.9 mi · 1,095
Frequently asked questions
About Lovin Elementary SchoolHow large is Lovin Elementary School?
Lovin Elementary School enrolls approximately 856 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Lovin Elementary School serve?
Lovin Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Lovin Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Lovin Elementary School is approximately 11.6:1 (74 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Lovin Elementary School?
Lovin Elementary School reports a student body of 12% White, 27% Hispanic, 53% Black, 4% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Lovin Elementary School public or private?
Lovin 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.