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Enrollment
820
Middle
DISTRICT 1,431 · STATE 763
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GWINNETT COUNTY·NCES 130255001136
Snellville Middle School
3155 Pate Rd, Snellville, GA 30078 · (770) 972-1530 · Gwinnett County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL820 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 42% of Georgia public middle schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- DThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Georgia public middle schools
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
60 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 14.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
76%
622 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 | 262 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 266 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 292 | 36% |
Student demographics
52%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
Snellville Middle School→South Gwinnett High School
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
35.6%
GA avg 40.1% . -5.1pp since 2021
Math
29.8%
GA avg 44.6% . +3.2pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 30 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 5 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 3 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 35.6% | 29.8% |
| 2023-24 | 41.3% | 30.9% |
| 2022-23 | 38.8% | 29.9% |
| 2021-22 | 40.7% | 26.6% |
% 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
37.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.1%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 38% 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 Snellville Middle School
Snellville Middle School's state test result (37.8% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Snellville Middle School this school | 820 | 75.9% | 37.8% |
| Stockbridge Middle School Stockbridge | 673 | 81.6% | 17.3% |
| Chestnut Log Middle School Douglasville | 719 | 84.0% | 26.9% |
| Eagle's Landing Middle School McDonough | 974 | 72.2% | 21.9% |
| Grace Snell Middle School Loganville | 1,231 | 72.5% | 35.9% |
| Factory Shoals Middle School Douglasville | 833 | 77.6% | 30.1% |
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 Snellville Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Gwinnett County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.8% | #233 of 470 | #21 of 30 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 29.8% | #315 of 474 ▼ 33 | #29 of 30 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 35.6% | #228 of 474 ▼ 33 | #21 of 30 ▼ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.0pp | #50 of 465 | #4 of 30 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 820 | #188 of 487 | #28 of 30 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.7:1 | #199 of 471 | #7 of 30 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.5% | #270 of 471 | #24 of 30 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 75.9% | #268 of 479 | #10 of 30 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.4% | #151 of 305 | #8 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
820
-131 (-14%) vs 2020
-42% since 1990-91, when it was 1,415
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
was 18.3:1
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 | 820 | 60 | 13.7:1 | 76% (622) |
| 2023-24 | 876 | 62 | 14.1:1 | 81% (706) |
| 2022-23 | 882 | 55.8 | 15.8:1 | 75% (662) |
| 2020-21 | 951 | 52 | 18.3:1 | 66% (623) |
| 2017-18 | 915 | 50.3 | 18.2:1 | 71% (654) |
| 2015-16 | 950 | 55 | 17.3:1 | 69% (660) |
| 2010-11 | 835 | 56 | 14.9:1 | 67% (562) |
| 2000-01 | 1,454 | 88 | 16.5:1 | 15% (220) |
| 1990-91 | 1,415 | 74 | 19.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Snellville Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (915 to 820); teachers up 19% (50.3 to 60).
About Snellville Middle School
Snellville Middle School is a medium-sized middle-grades school in Georgia, with an address in Snellville. The school reports 820 students in grades 6 through 8.
Gwinnett County is responsible for 141 schools, Snellville Middle School included, with 182,518 students in all.
Black students are the majority at Snellville Middle School, with 64% of enrollment. It is also 25% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% White, and 3% Asian. Gwinnett County's residents are about 28% Black, 35 points below the school's share. Pick two students at random and there is a 52% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Staffing totals 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 13.7:1. That matches the 14.1:1 average for middle schools in Georgia fairly closely. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 76%. Among public schools in Gwinnett County, the average eligibility rate is 60%.
The allk12 Grade for Snellville Middle School is C+. Compared with Georgia public middle schools, the school scored higher than 42% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Snellville Middle School is within a point of the average proficiency rate on state tests predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 37.8% actual, 38.1% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Georgia.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Gwinnett County show that the median household income is $87,890, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 39%, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. Besides Snellville Middle School, Gwinnett County has 149 other public schools.
South Gwinnett High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles away. Within five miles of Snellville Middle School, there are at least 8 other public schools. Its average proficiency rate of 37.8% is below the 38.3% average for nearby schools.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
Federal data show a 14% enrollment decrease, from 951 in 2020-21 to 820 in 2024-25. Students per teacher fell from 18.3 in 2020-21 to 13.7 in 2024-25.
The Snellville Middle School community page is open for posts about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. 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 Snellville
- Brookwood High SchoolHigh · 3,803 students
- South Gwinnett High SchoolHigh · 2,639 students
- Shiloh High SchoolHigh · 2,096 students
- Shiloh Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,592 students
- Brookwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,422 students
- Norton Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,042 students
Nearby schools
- South Gwinnett High School1.4 mi · 2,639
- Britt Elementary School1.4 mi · 561
- Norton Elementary School1.7 mi · 1,042
- Centerville Elementary School2.0 mi · 655
- Rosebud Elementary School2.4 mi · 1,042
- Grace Snell Middle School3.4 mi · 1,231
Frequently asked questions
About Snellville Middle SchoolHow many students attend Snellville Middle School?
Snellville Middle School enrolls approximately 820 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Snellville Middle School serve?
Snellville Middle School serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Snellville Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Snellville Middle School is approximately 13.7:1 (60 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Snellville Middle School?
Snellville Middle School reports a student body of 3% White, 25% Hispanic, 64% Black, 3% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Snellville Middle School?
Snellville Middle School is overseen by Gwinnett County in Gwinnett County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.