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Enrollment
2,609
High
DISTRICT 2,162 · STATE 1,120
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GWINNETT COUNTY·NCES 130255001980
Meadowcreek High School
4455 Steve Reynolds Blvd, Norcross, GA 30093 · (770) 381-9680 · Gwinnett County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL2,609 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 19% of Georgia public high schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
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 high schools
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
188 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.8:1 · STATE 15.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
85%
2,230 students
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 74%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 585 | 22% |
| Grade 10 | 653 | 25% |
| Grade 11 | 732 | 28% |
| Grade 12 | 639 | 24% |
Student demographics
37%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
Based on published attendance-zone data from Gwinnett County. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedMath
18.8%
GA avg 44.6% . +7.7pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 19 of every 100 students at this school do math at grade level. The Georgia average is about 45 of 100. Math scores are up about 8 points since 2021.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | Math |
|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 18.8% |
| 2023-24 | 15.5% |
| 2022-23 | 4.9% |
| 2021-22 | 11.1% |
% 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
20.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.2%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 21% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% 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 Meadowcreek High School
Meadowcreek High School's state test result (20.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meadowcreek High School this school | 2,609 | 85.5% | 20.8% |
| Berkmar High School Lilburn | 2,975 | 76.6% | 27.0% |
| McClure Health Science High School Duluth | 1,237 | 85.7% | 43.0% |
| Osborne High School Marietta | 2,790 | 100.0% | 23.1% |
| Cross Keys High School Brookhaven | 1,748 | 100.0% | 32.3% |
| Johnson High School Gainesville | 1,318 | 70.7% | 27.1% |
Matched among Georgia high 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 Meadowcreek High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Gwinnett County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 20.8% | #339 of 411 | #24 of 26 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 18.8% | #342 of 417 ▲ 8 | #24 of 26 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 2,609 | #22 of 480 | #11 of 29 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #82 of 413 | #4 of 28 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 36.9% | #325 of 413 | #27 of 28 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 85.5% | #147 of 425 | #3 of 28 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.7% | #35 of 168 | #4 of 8 |
Ranked against other public high 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
2,609
-14 (-1%) vs 2020
+89% since 1990-91, when it was 1,383
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
was 17.4:1
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 | 2,609 | 188.3 | 13.9:1 | 85% (2,230) |
| 2023-24 | 2,640 | 194.2 | 13.6:1 | 86% (2,272) |
| 2022-23 | 2,663 | 184.1 | 14.5:1 | 79% (2,109) |
| 2020-21 | 2,623 | 151 | 17.4:1 | 77% (2,025) |
| 2017-18 | 3,211 | 169.1 | 19.0:1 | 80% (2,581) |
| 2015-16 | 3,193 | 169 | 18.9:1 | 85% (2,721) |
| 2010-11 | 2,675 | 151 | 17.7:1 | 88% (2,353) |
| 2000-01 | 2,189 | 129 | 17.0:1 | 44% (961) |
| 1990-91 | 1,383 | 76 | 18.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Meadowcreek High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 19% (3,211 to 2,609); teachers up 11% (169.1 to 188.3).
About Meadowcreek High School
Meadowcreek High School is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as a high school in Norcross, Georgia. The grade span is 9 through 12, and enrollment is 2,609 students. Average enrollment for high schools in Georgia is about 1,120, so this school runs 133% larger than that.
A total of 141 schools make up Gwinnett County, with 182,518 students enrolled.
Hispanic students make up a majority at Meadowcreek High School, at 78%. Next come 15% Black and 5% Asian. That compares with about 24% Hispanic among all Gwinnett County residents. Meadowcreek High School's diversity index is 37%, against a US figure of 70%.
Teachers at Meadowcreek High School total 188.3 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 13.9:1. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 15.2:1 average for high schools in Georgia. The school counts 2,230 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 85%. Compared with the 60% average for public schools in Gwinnett County, the school's rate is higher.
Meadowcreek High School is graded C- by allk12, scoring above 19% of Georgia public high schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 33.2% for Meadowcreek High School. The school posts 20.8%, 12.4 points below the prediction.
According to the American Community Survey, in Gwinnett County, the median household income is $87,890, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 39% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 9%. There are 150 public schools in Gwinnett County, enrolling about 196,924 students in all.
Meadowcreek Elementary School is the closest public school, about 1.0 miles away in a straight line. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Meadowcreek High School. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, Meadowcreek High School ranks 8th on average proficiency.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
The school's size has been steady, with 2,623 students in 2020-21 and 2,609 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 17.4:1 to 13.9:1.
The discussion area below is open to posts about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
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 Norcross
- Norcross High SchoolHigh · 2,317 students
- Paul Duke STEM High SchoolHigh · 1,509 students
- Summerour Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,319 students
- Graves Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,076 students
- Rockbridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 990 students
- Beaver Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 984 students
Nearby schools
- Meadowcreek Elementary School1.0 mi · 806
- Hopkins Elementary School1.0 mi · 1,113
- Minor Elementary School1.2 mi · 952
- McClure Health Science High School1.6 mi · 1,237
- Beaver Ridge Elementary School1.6 mi · 984
- Radloff Middle School1.7 mi · 1,315
Frequently asked questions
About Meadowcreek High SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Meadowcreek High School?
Meadowcreek High School enrolls approximately 2,609 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does Meadowcreek High School serve?
Meadowcreek High School serves grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Meadowcreek High School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Meadowcreek High School is approximately 13.9:1 (188 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Meadowcreek High School?
At Meadowcreek High School, the student body is approximately 2% White, 78% Hispanic, 15% Black, 5% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is Meadowcreek High School public or private?
Meadowcreek High 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.