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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Mountain Park Elementary School administration to hear?
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Enrollment
652
Elementary
DISTRICT 956 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GWINNETT COUNTY·NCES 130255001137
Mountain Park Elementary School
1500 Pounds Rd SW, Lilburn, GA 30047 · (770) 921-2224 · Gwinnett County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL652 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
12.7:1
52 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
66%
429 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 | 25 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 90 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 108 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 118 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 107 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 106 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 98 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (90) is 8% smaller than its 5th grade class (98).
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
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
51.8%
GA avg 40.1% . -4.7pp since 2021
Math
63.2%
GA avg 44.6% . +3.8pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 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 5 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 4 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 51.8% | 63.2% |
| 2023-24 | 49.2% | 61.8% |
| 2022-23 | 60.2% | 65.0% |
| 2021-22 | 56.5% | 59.4% |
% 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
57.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.4%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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 Mountain Park Elementary School
Mountain Park Elementary School's state test result (57.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mountain Park Elementary School this school | 652 | 65.8% | 57.2% |
| Rock Springs Elementary School Lawrenceville | 801 | 62.9% | 45.6% |
| Walnut Grove Elementary School Suwanee | 819 | 57.3% | 58.2% |
| Lake Joy Primary School Warner Robins | 588 | 63.8% | N/A |
| Taylor Elementary School Lawrenceville | 883 | 63.0% | 52.4% |
| Bells Ferry Elementary School Marietta | 704 | 61.5% | 42.3% |
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 Mountain Park Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Gwinnett County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.2% | #227 of 1,208 | #30 of 84 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 63.2% | #212 of 1,215 ▲ 12 | #24 of 84 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 51.8% | #246 of 1,215 ▲ 96 | #29 of 84 ▲ 8 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -0.5pp | #388 of 1,183 | #48 of 83 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 652 | #476 of 1,324 | #77 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.7:1 | #434 of 1,301 | #39 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 77.3% | #4 of 1,301 | #4 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 65.8% | #875 of 1,312 | #43 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +10.1% | #192 of 386 | #15 of 31 |
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
652
+33 (+5%) vs 2020
+12% since 1990-91, when it was 581
Student : Teacher
12.7:1
was 15.9:1
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 | 652 | 51.5 | 12.7:1 | 66% (429) |
| 2023-24 | 628 | 49.7 | 12.6:1 | 67% (423) |
| 2022-23 | 646 | 43.2 | 14.9:1 | 55% (355) |
| 2020-21 | 619 | 39 | 15.9:1 | 47% (290) |
| 2017-18 | 592 | 39 | 15.2:1 | 50% (298) |
| 2015-16 | 601 | 35 | 17.2:1 | 49% (297) |
| 2010-11 | 568 | 38 | 14.9:1 | 47% (265) |
| 2000-01 | 545 | 45 | 12.1:1 | 14% (77) |
| 1990-91 | 581 | 37 | 15.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mountain Park Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 10% (592 to 652); teachers up 32% (39 to 51.5).
About Mountain Park Elementary School
Mountain Park Elementary School is an elementary school in Lilburn, Georgia, reachable at (770) 921-2224. Enrollment stands at 652 students, covering pre-K through 5.
Besides Mountain Park Elementary School, Gwinnett County runs 140 other schools. The district enrolls 182,518 students.
The largest group at Mountain Park Elementary School is Hispanic students, at 30%. Other students are 23% Black, 22% White, 18% Asian, and 6% multiracial. The diversity index for Mountain Park Elementary School is 77%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 12.7:1. The school has 51.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is in line with the 13.3:1 average for elementary schools in Georgia. In all, 66% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Mountain Park Elementary School scores 57.2% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 43.4%.
In the surrounding county, Gwinnett County, 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.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Parkview High School, is about 1.3 miles. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. On state test proficiency, Mountain Park Elementary School ranks 6th in a group of 9 nearby schools.
Locale data from NCES put Mountain Park Elementary School in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
From 619 students in 2020-21, enrollment increased to 652 by 2024-25. By 2024-25, the school had 12.7 students per teacher, compared with 15.9 in 2020-21.
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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 Lilburn
- Parkview High SchoolHigh · 3,216 students
- Berkmar High SchoolHigh · 2,975 students
- Trickum Middle SchoolMiddle · 2,204 students
- Lilburn Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,636 students
- Camp Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,425 students
- Lilburn Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,249 students
Other Mountain Park Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 2 states are named Mountain Park Elementary. Mountain Park Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Mountain Park Elementary SchoolRoswell, GA · 735 students
- Mountain Park ElementaryState Road, NC · 188 students
Nearby schools
- Parkview High School1.3 mi · 3,216
- Camp Creek Elementary School1.5 mi · 1,425
- Shiloh Elementary School2.4 mi · 711
- Arcado Elementary School2.6 mi · 905
- Shiloh Middle School2.6 mi · 1,592
- Shiloh High School2.8 mi · 2,096
Frequently asked questions
About Mountain Park Elementary SchoolHow large is Mountain Park Elementary School?
Mountain Park Elementary School enrolls approximately 652 students in grades PK-05.
Is Mountain Park Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Mountain Park Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Mountain Park Elementary School?
Approximately 12.7:1 students per teacher at Mountain Park Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Mountain Park Elementary School?
Student demographics at Mountain Park Elementary School are roughly 22% White, 30% Hispanic, 23% Black, 18% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Mountain Park Elementary School in?
Mountain Park Elementary School is part of Gwinnett County.
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