Simonton Elementary School

Set in Lawrenceville, Georgia, Simonton Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus, run under Gwinnett County. It caters to 702 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Gwinnett County runs 141 schools in total, collectively educating 182,518 students. Simonton Elementary School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Simonton Elementary School records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 45%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 38% Black, 6% White, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Simonton Elementary School shows 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.4:1. The state averages about 13.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 79% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Gwinnett County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Simonton Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.3%, the actual is 33.4%, a residual of -2.9 points.

Across the wider county, Gwinnett County reports that median household income runs about $87,890, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Gwinnett County's 150 public schools (combined enrollment of about 196,924 students), Simonton Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Jenkins Elementary School, around 1.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Simonton Elementary School comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 37.3%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Simonton Elementary School's enrollment has declined 14% since 2018, when it stood at 817 (now 702). The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 33% to 45% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.

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