Patrick Elementary School

Set in Buford, Georgia, Patrick Elementary School is a sprawling elementary school, operated by Gwinnett County. It educates 999 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 65% bigger than the state mean of about 605.

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

On demographics, Patrick Elementary School records that the most-represented group is Black (31%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 24% Hispanic, 23% Asian, 16% White, 6% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 70 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 50% of students at Patrick 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 meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Patrick Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.7%, the actual is 50.2%, a residual of -1.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, Gwinnett County reports that median household earnings sit near $87,890, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Patrick Elementary School is one of 150 public schools in Gwinnett County (combined enrollment of about 196,924 students).

Nearest neighbor: Ivy Creek Elementary School, around 1.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Patrick Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Patrick Elementary School at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 67.2%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 33%: 749 students in 2018 compared to 999 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 33% to 16%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for Patrick Elementary School typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.