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What's one thing Puckett's Mill Elementary School gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
794
Elementary
DISTRICT 956 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GWINNETT COUNTY·NCES 130255003814
Puckett's Mill Elementary School
2442 S Pucketts Mill Rd, Dacula, GA 30019 · (678) 765-5110 · Gwinnett County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL794 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
60 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
31%
246 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 | 12 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 107 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 119 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 122 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 122 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 149 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 163 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (107) is 34% smaller than its 5th grade class (163).
Student demographics
73%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
66.0%
GA avg 40.1% . -9.5pp since 2021
Math
72.3%
GA avg 44.6% . -2.2pp since 2021
What 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 72 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 10 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 2 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 66.0% | 72.3% |
| 2023-24 | 73.1% | 78.5% |
| 2022-23 | 75.2% | 80.6% |
| 2021-22 | 75.5% | 74.5% |
% 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
73.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.3%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 74% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% 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 Puckett's Mill Elementary School
Puckett's Mill Elementary School's state test result (73.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Puckett's Mill Elementary School this school | 794 | 31.0% | 73.8% |
| Fernbank Elementary School Atlanta | 895 | 27.8% | 64.9% |
| White Oak Elementary School Sugar Hill | 722 | 32.3% | 68.1% |
| Coal Mountain Elementary School Cumming | 747 | 31.5% | 50.7% |
| Kedron Elementary School Peachtree City | 843 | 21.0% | 75.6% |
| River Ridge Elementary Evans | 789 | 21.4% | 79.0% |
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 Puckett's Mill Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Gwinnett County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 73.8% | #62 of 1,208 | #6 of 84 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 72.3% | #105 of 1,215 ▼ 51 | #9 of 84 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 66.0% | #91 of 1,215 ▼ 33 | #9 of 84 ▼ 4 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -5.9pp | #97 of 1,183 | #15 of 83 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 794 | #241 of 1,324 | #61 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.3:1 | #635 of 1,301 | #58 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.7% | #60 of 1,301 | #26 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 31.0% | #1,177 of 1,312 | #81 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.4% | #664 of 854 | #34 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
794
+71 (+10%) vs 2020
-31% since 2010-11, when it was 1,143
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
was 14.2:1
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 | 794 | 59.5 | 13.3:1 | 31% (246) |
| 2023-24 | 749 | 59 | 12.7:1 | 32% (243) |
| 2022-23 | 780 | 57.2 | 13.6:1 | 22% (169) |
| 2020-21 | 723 | 51 | 14.2:1 | 16% (114) |
| 2017-18 | 848 | 57.3 | 14.8:1 | 13% (113) |
| 2015-16 | 951 | 60 | 15.8:1 | 13% (119) |
| 2010-11 | 1,143 | 66 | 17.3:1 | 11% (128) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Puckett's Mill Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (848 to 794); teachers up 4% (57.3 to 59.5).
About Puckett's Mill Elementary School
In Dacula, Georgia, Puckett's Mill Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school. The school counts 794 students across pre-K through 5. The school's enrollment is 31% above the 605 average for elementary schools in Georgia.
In Gwinnett County, 141 schools enroll a combined 182,518 students.
Enrollment at Puckett's Mill Elementary School is mixed, with White students the largest group at 43%. After that, the student body is 20% Black, 15% Asian, 14% Hispanic, and 7% multiracial. Census figures show Gwinnett County is about 33% White. The chance that two students picked at random at Puckett's Mill Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 73%.
The teaching staff at Puckett's Mill Elementary School is 59.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 13.3:1. Elementary schools in Georgia average about 13.3:1, a similar figure. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 31%. The rate at public schools in Gwinnett County averages 60%, higher than here.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Puckett's Mill Elementary School, the prediction is 61.3% and the result is 73.8%.
County data help place the school in context: in Gwinnett County, 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%. The public schools of Gwinnett County number 150 and enroll about 196,924.
Mountain View High School is the public school closest to Puckett's Mill Elementary School, about 1.4 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Puckett's Mill Elementary School is 1st of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
In the federal locale system, Puckett's Mill Elementary School is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count grew from 723 to 794.
Conversations here can range across science fairs, picture day, and bus routes. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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 Dacula
- Dacula High SchoolHigh · 2,481 students
- Dacula Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,866 students
- Alcova Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,467 students
- Harbins Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,320 students
- Dacula Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,159 students
- Dyer Elementary SchoolElementary · 944 students
Nearby schools
- Mountain View High School1.4 mi · 2,221
- Fort Daniel Elementary School1.5 mi · 645
- Seckinger High School1.5 mi · 2,318
- Twin Rivers Middle School1.5 mi · 1,669
- Patrick Elementary School2.2 mi · 999
- Ivy Creek Elementary School2.2 mi · 1,507
Frequently asked questions
About Puckett's Mill Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Puckett's Mill Elementary School?
Puckett's Mill Elementary School enrolls approximately 794 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Puckett's Mill Elementary School serve?
Puckett's Mill Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Puckett's Mill Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Puckett's Mill Elementary School is approximately 13.3:1 (60 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Puckett's Mill Elementary School?
Student demographics at Puckett's Mill Elementary School are roughly 43% White, 14% Hispanic, 20% Black, 15% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Puckett's Mill Elementary School in?
Puckett's Mill Elementary School is part of Gwinnett County.
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