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What's one thing Settles Bridge Elementary School gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
741
Elementary
DISTRICT 1,008 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FORSYTH COUNTY·NCES 130222002320
Settles Bridge Elementary School
600 James Burgess Rd, Suwanee, GA 30024 · (770) 887-1883 · Forsyth County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL741 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
48 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
15%
114 students
DISTRICT 22% · 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 | 9 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 80 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 95 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 111 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 136 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 150 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 160 | 22% |
This year's kindergarten class (80) is 50% smaller than its 5th grade class (160).
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · 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 Forsyth County. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
73.5%
GA avg 40.1% . -2.5pp since 2021
Math
82.1%
GA avg 44.6% . -0.1pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 82 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 3 points since 2021, while math scores have held steady.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 73.5% | 82.1% |
| 2023-24 | 70.5% | 83.6% |
| 2022-23 | 74.2% | 81.2% |
| 2021-22 | 76.1% | 82.2% |
% 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
77.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.4%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 77% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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 Settles Bridge Elementary School
Settles Bridge Elementary School's state test result (77.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Settles Bridge Elementary School this school | 741 | 15.4% | 77.1% |
| Big Creek Elementary School Cumming | 745 | 15.7% | 77.8% |
| Medlock Bridge Elementary School Alpharetta | 620 | 14.2% | 73.4% |
| Creek View Elementary School Alpharetta | 765 | 5.1% | 87.1% |
| Shakerag Elementary School Johns Creek | 590 | 12.9% | 81.4% |
| Shiloh Point Elementary Cumming | 955 | 12.3% | 71.5% |
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 Settles Bridge Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Forsyth County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 77.1% | #44 of 1,208 | #5 of 23 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 82.1% | #35 of 1,215 ▼ 9 | #5 of 23 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 73.5% | #46 of 1,215 ▲ 33 | #3 of 23 ▲ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.3pp | #330 of 1,183 | #12 of 22 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 741 | #312 of 1,324 | #23 of 23 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #1,157 of 1,301 | #15 of 23 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.7% | #495 of 1,301 | #15 of 23 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 15.4% | #1,261 of 1,312 | #14 of 23 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -31.8% | #72 of 854 | #1 of 14 |
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
741
-246 (-25%) vs 2020
+1% since 2000-01, when it was 735
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 17.9:1
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 | 741 | 48.3 | 15.3:1 | 15% (114) |
| 2023-24 | 818 | 52.1 | 15.7:1 | 14% (114) |
| 2022-23 | 888 | 48.6 | 18.3:1 | 6% (52) |
| 2020-21 | 987 | 55 | 17.9:1 | 7% (65) |
| 2017-18 | 1,087 | 64 | 17.0:1 | 6% (63) |
| 2015-16 | 1,077 | 62 | 17.4:1 | 6% (61) |
| 2010-11 | 816 | 47 | 17.4:1 | 11% (89) |
| 2000-01 | 735 | 44 | 16.7:1 | 2% (14) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Settles Bridge Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 32% (1,087 to 741); teachers down 25% (64 to 48.3).
About Settles Bridge Elementary School
Settles Bridge Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school with its address in Suwanee, Georgia. Students in pre-K through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 741 students. Elementary schools in Georgia average about 605 students, which makes this school 22% larger than average.
Settles Bridge Elementary School is among 42 schools run by Forsyth County, which serves 54,864 students.
The share of Asian students at Settles Bridge Elementary School is 56%, a majority. Other students are 29% White, 6% Black, 5% multiracial, and 4% Hispanic. That is higher than the 20% Asian share among all Forsyth County residents. A diversity index of 60% means there is a 60% chance two randomly chosen students at Settles Bridge Elementary School are from different groups.
There are 48.3 full-time-equivalent teachers at Settles Bridge Elementary School, giving a ratio of 15.3:1. The school's 15.3:1 compares with an average of 13.3:1 for elementary schools in Georgia. By family income, 15% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Compared with Georgia schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Settles Bridge Elementary School's results are 7.7 points above predicted: 77.1% against 69.4%.
In the surrounding county, Forsyth County, the median household earns about $143,784 a year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Settles Bridge Elementary School, Forsyth County has 42 public schools.
Settles Bridge Elementary School is about 0.2 miles from Riverwatch Middle School, its nearest public school. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Settles Bridge Elementary School is 7th of 9 on proficiency.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 25% decline, from 987 to 741. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 17.9:1 to 15.3:1.
The allk12 page for Settles Bridge Elementary School lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Forsyth County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
267,287
Census ACS
Median income
$143,784
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
42
54,864 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Forsyth County
- Lambert High SchoolHigh · 3,249 students
- South Forsyth High SchoolHigh · 2,634 students
- Denmark High SchoolHigh · 2,527 students
- West Forsyth High SchoolHigh · 2,503 students
- Forsyth Central High SchoolHigh · 2,457 students
- North Forsyth High SchoolHigh · 2,151 students
Other schools in Suwanee
- Lambert High SchoolHigh · 3,249 students
- Peachtree Ridge High SchoolHigh · 3,155 students
- North Gwinnett High SchoolHigh · 3,033 students
- Collins Hill High SchoolHigh · 2,485 students
- Riverwatch Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,455 students
- Level Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,051 students
Nearby schools
- Riverwatch Middle School0.2 mi · 1,455
- Riverside Elementary School2.1 mi · 919
- Sharon Elementary School2.2 mi · 865
- Lambert High School2.2 mi · 3,249
- Daves Creek Elementary School2.3 mi · 881
- South Forsyth Middle School2.7 mi · 1,319
Frequently asked questions
About Settles Bridge Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Settles Bridge Elementary School?
Settles Bridge Elementary School enrolls approximately 741 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Settles Bridge Elementary School serve?
Settles Bridge Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Settles Bridge Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Settles Bridge Elementary School is approximately 15.3:1 (48 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Settles Bridge Elementary School?
At Settles Bridge Elementary School, the student body is approximately 29% White, 4% Hispanic, 6% Black, 56% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Settles Bridge Elementary School in?
Settles Bridge Elementary School is part of Forsyth County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.