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Osborne Middle School
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Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedWhat this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 76 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 4 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Osborne Middle School
Osborne Middle School is a well-populated 6-8 campus in Hoschton, Georgia, run under Gwinnett County. The school instructs 1,816 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 138% bigger than the state mean of about 763.
Within Gwinnett County, which oversees 141 schools and 182,518 students, Osborne Middle School is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, Osborne Middle School reports that 35% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 25% Black, 18% Asian, 17% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. Compared to Gwinnett County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
Looking at school resources, The school reports having 112 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.1:1 average. An estimated 37% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Gwinnett County's rate of about 60%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Osborne Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.4%, the actual is 70.0%, a residual of +11.6 points.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Gwinnett County indicate median household earnings sit near $87,890, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Gwinnett County's 150 public schools (combined enrollment of about 196,924 students), Osborne Middle School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Duncan Creek Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Osborne Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Osborne Middle School at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 66.0%.
Osborne Middle School operates from a suburban location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 5%: 1,728 students in 2018 compared to 1,816 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 62% to 35% across the same window.
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