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If you could change one rule at Norcross Elementary School, what would it be?
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Enrollment
751
Elementary
DISTRICT 956 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GWINNETT COUNTY·NCES 130255001125
Norcross Elementary School
150 Hunt St, Norcross, GA 30071 · (770) 448-2188 · Gwinnett County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL751 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 17% of Georgia public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- DThree-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
12.1:1
62 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
89%
665 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 | 9 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 108 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 111 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 136 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 127 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 120 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 140 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (108) is 23% smaller than its 5th grade class (140).
Student demographics
38%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
23.5%
GA avg 40.1% . -3.4pp since 2021
Math
30.6%
GA avg 44.6% . -3.9pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 23 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 31 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 3 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 4 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 23.5% | 30.6% |
| 2023-24 | 23.4% | 28.2% |
| 2022-23 | 22.0% | 31.1% |
| 2021-22 | 26.9% | 34.5% |
% 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
26.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.6%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% 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 Norcross Elementary School
Norcross Elementary School's state test result (26.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norcross Elementary School this school | 751 | 88.5% | 26.5% |
| Meadowcreek Elementary School Norcross | 806 | 93.8% | 19.8% |
| Fair Street International Academy Gainesville | 651 | 91.1% | 14.6% |
| Pleasantdale Elementary School Doraville | 794 | 86.3% | 20.8% |
| Ferguson Elementary School Duluth | 856 | 83.5% | 29.1% |
| Rockbridge Elementary School Norcross | 990 | 87.8% | 17.1% |
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 Norcross Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Gwinnett County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 26.5% | #892 of 1,208 | #75 of 84 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 30.6% | #846 of 1,215 ▲ 37 | #73 of 84 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 23.5% | #920 of 1,215 ▲ 47 | #75 of 84 ▼ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.7pp | #191 of 1,183 | #21 of 83 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 751 | #302 of 1,324 | #65 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.1:1 | #285 of 1,301 | #17 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 37.8% | #982 of 1,301 | #81 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 88.5% | #601 of 1,312 | #4 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.4% | #174 of 854 | #6 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
751
-77 (-9%) vs 2020
-33% since 1990-91, when it was 1,118
Student : Teacher
12.1:1
was 14.3:1
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 | 751 | 62.2 | 12.1:1 | 89% (665) |
| 2023-24 | 773 | 67.2 | 11.5:1 | 89% (691) |
| 2022-23 | 806 | 61.7 | 13.1:1 | 88% (712) |
| 2020-21 | 828 | 58 | 14.3:1 | 80% (664) |
| 2017-18 | 980 | 67 | 14.6:1 | 87% (856) |
| 2015-16 | 1,190 | 74 | 16.1:1 | 90% (1,070) |
| 2010-11 | 1,027 | 70 | 14.7:1 | 92% (940) |
| 2000-01 | 849 | 64 | 13.3:1 | 69% (589) |
| 1990-91 | 1,118 | 63 | 17.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Norcross Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 23% (980 to 751); teachers down 7% (67 to 62.2).
About Norcross Elementary School
Norcross Elementary School, located in Norcross, Georgia, is a medium-sized elementary school. Students in pre-K through 5 attend, and enrollment is 751 students. The school's enrollment is 24% larger than the 605 average for elementary schools in Georgia.
Gwinnett County operates 141 schools. Combined enrollment is 182,518 students.
At 78%, Hispanic students outnumber all other groups at Norcross Elementary School combined. After that, the student body is 14% Black, 5% Asian, and 2% White. Among all residents of Gwinnett County, the Hispanic share is about 24%. Norcross Elementary School has a diversity index of 38%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The count of teachers at Norcross Elementary School is 62.2 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 12.1:1. Among elementary schools in Georgia, the typical ratio is 13.3:1. The school counts 665 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 89%. The rate at public schools in Gwinnett County averages 60%, lower than here.
Norcross Elementary School is graded C- by allk12, scoring above 17% of Georgia public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Norcross Elementary School's actual average proficiency rate on state tests (26.5%) and its predicted rate (31.6%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Georgia schools.
Census estimates describe Gwinnett County this way: median household income is about $87,890, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 39% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 9%. Federal data list 150 public schools in Gwinnett County, with a combined enrollment of about 196,924.
Summerour Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of 7 schools in the immediate area with test results, Norcross Elementary School ranks 4th on average proficiency.
NCES describes the area around Norcross Elementary School as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The student count in 2024-25 was 751, 9% below the 828 of 2020-21. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 12.1:1, from 14.3:1.
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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 Norcross
- Meadowcreek High SchoolHigh · 2,609 students
- 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
Nearby schools
- Summerour Middle School0.4 mi · 1,319
- Baldwin Elementary0.5 mi · 914
- Gwinnett Intervention Education Center (GIVE) West0.9 mi · 227
- Brookhaven Innovation Academy0.9 mi · 524
- Paul Duke STEM High School1.0 mi · 1,509
- Stripling Elementary School1.4 mi · 799
Frequently asked questions
About Norcross Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Norcross Elementary School?
Norcross Elementary School enrolls approximately 751 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Norcross Elementary School serve?
Norcross Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Norcross Elementary School have?
Norcross Elementary School employs 62 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.1:1.
What is the student diversity at Norcross Elementary School?
Student demographics at Norcross Elementary School are roughly 2% White, 78% Hispanic, 14% Black, 5% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Norcross Elementary School public or private?
Norcross 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.