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Enrollment
1,340
Elementary
DISTRICT 956 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GWINNETT COUNTY·NCES 130255003835
Starling Elementary School
1725 Grayson Hwy, Grayson, GA 30017 · (678) 344-6100 · Gwinnett County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,340 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
94 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
57%
769 students
DISTRICT 63% · 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 | 36 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 183 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 207 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 222 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 238 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 219 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 235 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (183) is 22% smaller than its 5th grade class (235).
Student demographics
69%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
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
52.1%
GA avg 40.1% . -3.3pp since 2021
Math
62.5%
GA avg 44.6% . +4.3pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 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 are up about 4 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 52.1% | 62.5% |
| 2023-24 | 55.5% | 63.2% |
| 2022-23 | 49.6% | 54.9% |
| 2021-22 | 55.4% | 58.2% |
% 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
59.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% 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 Starling Elementary School
Starling Elementary School's state test result (59.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starling Elementary School this school | 1,340 | 57.4% | 59.0% |
| Grayson Elementary School Grayson | 1,095 | 56.3% | 57.1% |
| Godley Station School Savannah | 1,585 | 60.8% | 37.1% |
| Trip Elementary School Grayson | 1,589 | 59.9% | 60.8% |
| Dyer Elementary School Dacula | 944 | 57.8% | 60.7% |
| Harbins Elementary School Dacula | 1,320 | 55.6% | 48.4% |
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 Starling Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Gwinnett County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 59.0% | #205 of 1,208 | #27 of 84 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.5% | #218 of 1,215 ▼ 10 | #27 of 84 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.1% | #242 of 1,215 ▼ 9 | #28 of 84 ▼ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.5pp | #717 of 1,183 | #28 of 83 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,340 | #17 of 1,324 | #10 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.2:1 | #916 of 1,301 | #74 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.8% | #159 of 1,301 | #39 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 57.4% | #970 of 1,312 | #54 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +27.1% | #63 of 386 | #5 of 31 |
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
1,340
+259 (+24%) vs 2020
+39% since 2010-11, when it was 963
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
was 15.9:1
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 | 1,340 | 94.1 | 14.2:1 | 57% (769) |
| 2023-24 | 1,249 | 84.6 | 14.8:1 | 59% (731) |
| 2022-23 | 1,103 | 76.2 | 14.5:1 | 47% (523) |
| 2020-21 | 1,081 | 68 | 15.9:1 | 41% (447) |
| 2017-18 | 1,054 | 58.5 | 18.0:1 | 42% (444) |
| 2015-16 | 979 | 55 | 17.8:1 | 40% (394) |
| 2010-11 | 963 | 60 | 16.1:1 | 35% (337) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Starling Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 27% (1,054 to 1,340); teachers up 61% (58.5 to 94.1).
About Starling Elementary School
Starling Elementary School is a large elementary school in Georgia, located in Grayson. It is open to students in pre-K through 5 and enrolls 1,340 students. It has 121% more students than the average for elementary schools in Georgia (about 605).
Starling Elementary School is one school in Gwinnett County, a system of 141 schools with 182,518 students.
The student body at Starling Elementary School has no majority group. Black students lead at 48%. Next come 22% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 11% White, and 6% multiracial. The county population is about 28% Black. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 69%.
Based on 94.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, Starling Elementary School has a ratio of 14.2:1. The gap from the 13.3:1 average for elementary schools in Georgia is 0.9 students per teacher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 57%.
Starling Elementary School is 11.3 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (59.0% versus 47.7%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Georgia.
In Gwinnett County, the median household earns about $87,890 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 39%, and about 9% of people live in poverty. Gwinnett County has 150 public schools with about 196,924 students, including Starling Elementary School.
Couch Middle School is about 0.1 miles from Starling Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Starling Elementary School places 6th of 9 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
The NCES locale for Starling Elementary School is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment rose from 1,081 to 1,340, a 24% increase. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 15.9:1 to 14.2:1.
The allk12 page for Starling 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.
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 Grayson
- Trip Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,589 students
- Bay Creek Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,510 students
- Couch Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,147 students
- Grayson Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,095 students
Nearby schools
- Couch Middle School0.1 mi · 1,147
- Grayson Elementary School0.9 mi · 1,095
- Bay Creek Middle School2.1 mi · 1,510
- Trip Elementary School2.1 mi · 1,589
- Pharr Elementary School2.4 mi · 816
- Simonton Elementary School2.4 mi · 702
Frequently asked questions
About Starling Elementary SchoolHow large is Starling Elementary School?
Starling Elementary School enrolls approximately 1,340 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Starling Elementary School serve?
Starling Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Starling Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Starling Elementary School is approximately 14.2:1 (94 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Starling Elementary School?
At Starling Elementary School, the student body is approximately 11% White, 22% Hispanic, 48% Black, 13% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Starling Elementary School in?
Starling Elementary School is part of Gwinnett County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.