Norcross Elementary School

Located at 150 Hunt St, in Norcross, Georgia, Norcross Elementary School is a mid-tier elementary school that educates 751 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of Gwinnett County. Enrollment runs roughly 24% above the state mean of about 605.

Within Gwinnett County, which oversees 141 schools and 182,518 students, Norcross Elementary School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Norcross Elementary School reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 78% of enrollment. Other groups include 14% Black, 5% Asian, 2% White. By comparison, Gwinnett County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.1:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 89% of students at Norcross Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Gwinnett County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Norcross Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.6%, the actual is 26.5%, a residual of -5.1 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Gwinnett County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $87,890 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Gwinnett County's 150 public schools (combined enrollment of about 196,924 students), Norcross Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Summerour Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Norcross Elementary School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 29.2%.

Norcross Elementary School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 23%: 980 students in 2018 compared to 751 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 71% to 78%. Class-load math has fell: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 in 2025.

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