Stripling Elementary School

Located at 6155 Atlantic Blvd, in Norcross, Georgia, Stripling Elementary School is a mid-tier elementary campus that teaches 799 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Gwinnett County. Enrollment runs roughly 32% larger than the state mean of about 605.

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

Demographically, Stripling Elementary School shows that 64% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school shows 28% Black, 4% White, 2% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 71 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting Stripling Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 86% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Gwinnett County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Stripling Elementary School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 32.9%; this one comes in at 17.8%, -15.1 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Gwinnett County indicate the typical household earns roughly $87,890 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Stripling Elementary School is one of 150 public schools in Gwinnett County (combined enrollment of about 196,924 students).

The closest other public school is Brookhaven Innovation Academy, roughly 0.7 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Stripling Elementary School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 30.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Stripling Elementary School has remained close to its prior level, going from 800 students in 2018 to 799 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 42% to 28% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 in 2025.

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