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Enrollment
1,974
Middle
DISTRICT 1,431 · STATE 763
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GWINNETT COUNTY·NCES 130255002004
Richards Middle School
3555 Sugarloaf Pkwy, Lawrenceville, GA 30044 · (770) 995-7133 · Gwinnett County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,974 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
137 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 14.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
83%
1,642 students
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 74%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 626 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 685 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 663 | 34% |
Student demographics
59%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
Richards Middle School→Discovery High School
Feeds from
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
30.3%
GA avg 40.1% . -6.2pp since 2021
Math
39.5%
GA avg 44.6% . +7.6pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 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 6 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 8 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 30.3% | 39.5% |
| 2023-24 | 35.1% | 38.2% |
| 2022-23 | 35.3% | 33.7% |
| 2021-22 | 36.5% | 31.9% |
% 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
32.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.4%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% 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 Richards Middle School
Richards Middle School's state test result (32.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Richards Middle School this school | 1,974 | 83.2% | 32.8% |
| Duluth Middle School Duluth | 1,201 | 75.7% | 40.2% |
| Sweetwater Middle School Lawrenceville | 1,470 | 82.4% | 33.4% |
| Henderson Middle School Chamblee | 1,367 | 73.5% | 33.7% |
| Summerour Middle School Norcross | 1,319 | 84.8% | 30.4% |
| Moore Middle School Lawrenceville | 971 | 81.2% | 27.3% |
Matched among Georgia middle 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 Richards Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Gwinnett County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.8% | #287 of 470 | #25 of 30 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.5% | #233 of 474 ▼ 14 | #23 of 30 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 30.3% | #300 of 474 ▼ 40 | #25 of 30 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.7pp | #373 of 465 | #21 of 30 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,974 | #5 of 487 | #4 of 30 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #274 of 471 | #13 of 30 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.3% | #191 of 471 | #21 of 30 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 83.2% | #238 of 479 | #6 of 30 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.6% | #176 of 305 | #12 of 16 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
1,974
-202 (-9%) vs 2020
+37% since 1990-91, when it was 1,438
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 17.1:1
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 | 1,974 | 136.7 | 14.4:1 | 83% (1,642) |
| 2023-24 | 2,026 | 136.5 | 14.8:1 | 85% (1,722) |
| 2022-23 | 1,986 | 127.4 | 15.6:1 | 80% (1,587) |
| 2020-21 | 2,176 | 127 | 17.1:1 | 72% (1,557) |
| 2017-18 | 2,160 | 125.4 | 17.2:1 | 80% (1,720) |
| 2015-16 | 1,870 | 116 | 16.1:1 | 80% (1,501) |
| 2010-11 | 2,194 | 136 | 16.1:1 | 80% (1,756) |
| 2000-01 | 1,726 | 114 | 15.1:1 | 34% (592) |
| 1990-91 | 1,438 | 80 | 18.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Richards Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (2,160 to 1,974); teachers up 9% (125.4 to 136.7).
About Richards Middle School
Families in Lawrenceville, Georgia, are served by Richards Middle School, a large middle school. Grades offered run from 6 through 8, with 1,974 students enrolled. The average among middle schools in Georgia is roughly 763 students; this school is 159% above that.
Gwinnett County serves 182,518 students across 141 schools.
At 57%, Hispanic students outnumber all other groups at Richards Middle School combined. The school is also 27% Black, 8% Asian, 5% White, and 2% multiracial. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 24%. The chance that two students picked at random at Richards Middle School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 59%.
Richards Middle School counts 136.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 14.4 students for each one. Across middle schools in Georgia, the average ratio is about 14.1:1. About 83% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits. For comparison, public schools in Gwinnett County average 60%.
The model predicts 34.4% for a school in Georgia with Richards Middle School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Richards Middle School posts 32.8%.
Among Gwinnett County residents, median household income is about $87,890, about 39% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. Richards Middle School is one of 150 public schools in Gwinnett County, which together enroll about 196,924 students.
The closest public school, Cedar Hill Elementary School, is about 0.1 miles from Richards Middle School. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, Richards Middle School places 5th out of 9 schools in its immediate area.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is 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 declined from 2,176 to 1,974. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 17.1:1; by 2024-25 it was 14.4:1.
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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 Lawrenceville
- Archer High SchoolHigh · 3,058 students
- Discovery High SchoolHigh · 2,703 students
- Central Gwinnett High SchoolHigh · 2,414 students
- Mountain View High SchoolHigh · 2,221 students
- Gwinnett Online CampusCombined · 1,996 students
- Creekland Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,693 students
Other Richards Middle schools
2 other US public schools in 2 states are named Richards Middle. Richards Middle School is the largest of the 3.
- Richards Middle SchoolColumbus, GA · 799 students
- Richards Middle SchoolFRASER, MI · 661 students
Nearby schools
- Cedar Hill Elementary School0.1 mi · 896
- Moore Middle School0.8 mi · 971
- Oakland Meadow School1.2 mi · 68
- Winn Holt Elementary School1.2 mi · 1,046
- Crews Middle School1.6 mi · 1,443
- Craig Elementary School1.8 mi · 1,045
Frequently asked questions
About Richards Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Richards Middle School?
Richards Middle School enrolls approximately 1,974 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Richards Middle School serve?
Richards Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does Richards Middle School have?
Richards Middle School employs 137 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.4:1.
What is the student diversity at Richards Middle School?
Student demographics at Richards Middle School are roughly 5% White, 57% Hispanic, 27% Black, 8% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Richards Middle School in?
Richards Middle School is part of Gwinnett County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.