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Enrollment
913
Elementary
DISTRICT 956 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GWINNETT COUNTY·NCES 130255002197
Mason Elementary School
3030 Bunten Rd, Duluth, GA 30096 · (770) 232-3370 · Gwinnett County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL913 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
64 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
46%
416 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 127 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 144 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 150 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 158 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 166 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 168 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (127) is 24% smaller than its 5th grade class (168).
Student demographics
75%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
47.3%
GA avg 40.1% . -7.5pp since 2021
Math
50.1%
GA avg 44.6% . -12.8pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 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 8 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 13 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.3% | 50.1% |
| 2023-24 | 52.7% | 55.2% |
| 2022-23 | 54.0% | 61.4% |
| 2021-22 | 54.9% | 62.9% |
% 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
53.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.8%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% 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 Mason Elementary School
Mason Elementary School's state test result (53.4% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mason Elementary School this school | 913 | 45.6% | 53.4% |
| Woodland Elementary School Atlanta | 851 | 46.5% | 54.9% |
| Brandywine Elementary School Alpharetta | 968 | 36.2% | 58.5% |
| Patrick Elementary School Buford | 999 | 49.5% | 50.2% |
| Gwin Oaks Elementary School Lawrenceville | 1,077 | 45.1% | 69.9% |
| Amana Academy School Alpharetta | 667 | 47.5% | 64.4% |
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 Mason Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Gwinnett County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.4% | #286 of 1,208 | #34 of 84 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.1% | #404 of 1,215 ▼ 71 | #42 of 84 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.3% | #311 of 1,215 ▼ 40 | #35 of 84 ▼ 4 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -10.1pp | #24 of 1,183 | #3 of 83 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 913 | #126 of 1,324 | #44 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.3:1 | #920 of 1,301 | #75 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 75.0% | #22 of 1,301 | #18 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 45.6% | #1,076 of 1,312 | #67 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.6% | #653 of 854 | #33 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
913
-17 (-2%) vs 2020
+5% since 2000-01, when it was 870
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
was 14.5:1
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 | 913 | 64 | 14.3:1 | 46% (416) |
| 2023-24 | 926 | 68 | 13.6:1 | 48% (447) |
| 2022-23 | 963 | 64 | 15.1:1 | 39% (374) |
| 2020-21 | 930 | 64 | 14.5:1 | 31% (286) |
| 2017-18 | 978 | 63 | 15.5:1 | 37% (364) |
| 2015-16 | 891 | 62 | 14.4:1 | 39% (349) |
| 2010-11 | 1,139 | 81 | 14.1:1 | 44% (501) |
| 2000-01 | 870 | 68 | 12.8:1 | 15% (134) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mason Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (978 to 913); teachers up 2% (63 to 64).
About Mason Elementary School
Mason Elementary School is a public elementary school in Duluth, Georgia. Students in pre-K through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 913 students. By comparison, elementary schools in Georgia enroll about 605 students on average.
Mason Elementary School is part of a district of 141 schools: Gwinnett County, with 182,518 students.
Asian students make up 34% of enrollment at Mason Elementary School, the largest share of any group. The rest of enrollment is 28% Black, 19% Hispanic, 13% White, and 6% multiracial. Census estimates put the Asian share of Gwinnett County's population at about 13%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 75%.
Mason Elementary School lists 64 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 14.3 students per teacher. Across elementary schools in Georgia, the average ratio is 13.3:1. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 46% of the student body. That is 14 points below the 60% average for public schools in Gwinnett County.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for Mason Elementary School is 53.8%, and its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 53.4%.
For the population of Gwinnett County, the median household earns about $87,890 a year, about 39% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. Across Gwinnett County, 150 public schools serve about 196,924 students.
Harris Elementary School sits about 1.1 miles from Mason Elementary School. Mason Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. The nearest schools with test data average 52.9%, lower than Mason Elementary School's 53.4%.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal data show 930 students in 2020-21 and 913 in 2024-25, a difference of under 3%.
On allk12, people connected to Mason Elementary School can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. 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 Duluth
- Georgia Connections Academy (Virtual)Combined · 7,148 students
- Duluth High SchoolHigh · 2,556 students
- Northview High SchoolHigh · 1,591 students
- Radloff Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,315 students
- Hull Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,267 students
- McClure Health Science High SchoolHigh · 1,237 students
Other Mason Elementary schools
8 other US public schools in 8 states are named Mason Elementary. Mason Elementary School is the largest of the 9.
- Mason ElementarySan Diego, CA · 538 students
- MASON ELEM.LEE'S SUMMIT, MO · 512 students
- MASON ELEM.ST LOUIS, MO · 393 students
- Mason Elementary SchoolMASON, TX · 298 students
- Mason Elementary SchoolChicago, IL · 241 students
Nearby schools
- Harris Elementary School1.1 mi · 642
- Coleman Middle School1.5 mi · 711
- Hull Middle School1.5 mi · 1,267
- Georgia Connections Academy (Virtual)1.7 mi · 7,148
- Duluth High School1.7 mi · 2,556
- Parsons Elementary School2.0 mi · 882
Frequently asked questions
About Mason Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Mason Elementary School?
Mason Elementary School enrolls approximately 913 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Mason Elementary School serve?
Mason Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Mason Elementary School?
Approximately 14.3:1 students per teacher at Mason Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Mason Elementary School?
At Mason Elementary School, the student body is approximately 13% White, 19% Hispanic, 28% Black, 34% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Mason Elementary School?
Mason Elementary School is overseen by Gwinnett County in Gwinnett County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.