Seckinger High School

Seckinger High School operates as a big 9-12 campus in Buford, Georgia, overseen by Gwinnett County. Current enrollment sits at 2,318 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 1,120 students each, so Seckinger High School sits 107% bigger than that benchmark.

Seckinger High School is one of 141 schools operated by Gwinnett County, a district that hosts 182,518 students overall.

On demographics, Seckinger High School records that 29% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 26% White, 21% Hispanic, 18% Asian, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, Seckinger High School has 127 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.2:1, putting Seckinger High School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 44% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Gwinnett County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Seckinger High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.6%, the actual is 63.0%, a residual of +8.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Gwinnett County) shows that median household earnings sit near $87,890, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Gwinnett County's 150 public schools (combined enrollment of about 196,924 students), Seckinger High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Puckett's Mill Elementary School, around 1.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Seckinger High School comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 65.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

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