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How has Nesbit Elementary School changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
1,191
Elementary
DISTRICT 956 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GWINNETT COUNTY·NCES 130255000296
Nesbit Elementary School
6575 Cherokee Dr, Tucker, GA 30084 · (770) 414-2740 · Gwinnett County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,191 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
97 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
86%
1,019 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 | 53 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 181 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 204 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 193 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 193 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 179 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 188 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (181) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (188).
Student demographics
34%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
14.9%
GA avg 40.1% . -5.0pp since 2021
Math
22.1%
GA avg 44.6% . -1.5pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 15 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 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 down about 2 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 14.9% | 22.1% |
| 2023-24 | 15.4% | 20.3% |
| 2022-23 | 18.2% | 23.1% |
| 2021-22 | 19.9% | 23.6% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of GA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
18.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.1%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 18% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 33% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Nesbit Elementary School
Nesbit Elementary School's state test result (18.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nesbit Elementary School this school | 1,191 | 85.6% | 18.3% |
| Graves Elementary School Norcross | 1,076 | 82.8% | 21.3% |
| Corley Elementary School Lawrenceville | 1,119 | 80.1% | 29.2% |
| Hopkins Elementary School Lilburn | 1,113 | 87.6% | 24.3% |
| Rockbridge Elementary School Norcross | 990 | 87.8% | 17.1% |
| Beaver Ridge Elementary School Norcross | 984 | 81.9% | 25.8% |
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 Nesbit Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Gwinnett County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 18.3% | #1,090 of 1,208 | #82 of 84 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 22.1% | #1,024 of 1,215 ▲ 7 | #82 of 84 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 14.9% | #1,134 of 1,215 ▼ 8 | #82 of 84 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.2pp | #219 of 1,183 | #25 of 83 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,191 | #26 of 1,324 | #15 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.2:1 | #326 of 1,301 | #24 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 34.4% | #1,017 of 1,301 | #83 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 85.6% | #639 of 1,312 | #8 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.1% | #743 of 854 | #40 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
1,191
+33 (+3%) vs 2020
+5% since 2000-01, when it was 1,133
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
was 13.5:1
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 | 1,191 | 97.4 | 12.2:1 | 86% (1,019) |
| 2023-24 | 1,196 | 94.9 | 12.6:1 | 89% (1,061) |
| 2022-23 | 1,206 | 94.9 | 12.7:1 | 88% (1,065) |
| 2020-21 | 1,158 | 86 | 13.5:1 | 79% (920) |
| 2017-18 | 1,242 | 91 | 13.7:1 | 91% (1,130) |
| 2015-16 | 1,406 | 103 | 13.7:1 | 91% (1,286) |
| 2010-11 | 1,657 | 124 | 13.4:1 | 93% (1,549) |
| 2000-01 | 1,133 | 82 | 13.8:1 | 68% (766) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Nesbit Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 4% (1,242 to 1,191); teachers up 7% (91 to 97.4).
About Nesbit Elementary School
Nesbit Elementary School is one of the public schools in Tucker, Georgia. It is a high-enrollment elementary school. The school runs pre-K through 5 and enrolls 1,191 students. By comparison, elementary schools in Georgia enroll about 605 students on average.
In Gwinnett County, 141 schools enroll a combined 182,518 students.
Federal enrollment data show Nesbit Elementary School is 80% Hispanic. The next largest groups are 13% Black, 3% Asian, and 2% White. The school's Hispanic share is 56 points above the 24% share among Gwinnett County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 34%.
With 97.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 12.2:1. Statewide, elementary schools in Georgia average 13.3:1. Roughly 86% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Gwinnett County, the average is 60%.
Nesbit Elementary School posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 18.3%. Schools with its free or reduced-price lunch share in Georgia are predicted to post 33.1%, so the school is 14.8 points behind and in the state's bottom 10%.
The school is in Gwinnett County, where median household income comes to about $87,890, roughly 39% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Gwinnett County's 150 public schools enroll about 196,924 students and include Nesbit Elementary School.
The closest school to Nesbit Elementary School is Livsey Elementary School, located about 1.2 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Nesbit Elementary School at 7th of 8.
Nesbit Elementary School falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
A 3% rise took enrollment from 1,158 in 2020-21 to 1,191 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 13.5:1 in 2020-21 to 12.2:1 in 2024-25.
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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 Tucker
- Tucker High SchoolHigh · 1,614 students
- Tucker Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,173 students
- Idlewood Elementary SchoolElementary · 889 students
- Midvale Elementary SchoolElementary · 417 students
- Brockett Elementary SchoolElementary · 394 students
- Livsey Elementary SchoolElementary · 383 students
Other Nesbit Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Nesbit Elementary. Nesbit Elementary School is the largest of the 2.
- Nesbit ElementaryBelmont, CA · 566 students
Nearby schools
- Livsey Elementary School1.2 mi · 383
- Rockbridge Elementary School1.6 mi · 990
- Tucker High School1.7 mi · 1,614
- Smoke Rise Elementary School1.8 mi · 539
- Georgia Fugees Academy Charter School1.8 mi · 165
- Tucker Middle School2.2 mi · 1,173
Frequently asked questions
About Nesbit Elementary SchoolHow large is Nesbit Elementary School?
Nesbit Elementary School enrolls approximately 1,191 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Nesbit Elementary School serve?
Nesbit Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Nesbit Elementary School have?
Nesbit Elementary School employs 97 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.2:1.
What is the student diversity at Nesbit Elementary School?
Student demographics at Nesbit Elementary School are roughly 2% White, 80% Hispanic, 13% Black, 3% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Nesbit Elementary School?
Nesbit Elementary School is overseen by Gwinnett County in Gwinnett County.
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