Starling Elementary School

Starling Elementary School is an elementary campus of large scale in Grayson, Georgia, operated by Gwinnett County, serveing 1,340 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 121% larger than the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 605 students.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Starling Elementary School lists that 48% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 22% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 11% White, 6% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Starling Elementary School shows 94 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting Starling Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 57% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Starling Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.7%, the actual is 59.0%, a residual of +11.3 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Gwinnett County) logs that median household earnings sit near $87,890, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Gwinnett County runs 150 public schools (combined enrollment of about 196,924 students), of which Starling Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Couch Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Starling Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Starling Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 57.9%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 27%: 1,054 students in 2018 compared to 1,340 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 27% to 11% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

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