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Enrollment
1,319
Middle
DISTRICT 1,431 · STATE 763
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GWINNETT COUNTY·NCES 130255001124
Summerour Middle School
321 Price Place Pl NW, Norcross, GA 30071 · (770) 448-3045 · Gwinnett County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,319 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 31% of Georgia public middle schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-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
12.1:1
109 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 14.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
85%
1,118 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 | 439 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 421 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 459 | 35% |
Student demographics
40%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
Summerour Middle School→Norcross 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
27.9%
GA avg 40.1% . -3.7pp since 2021
Math
39.7%
GA avg 44.6% . +9.0pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 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 4 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 9 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 27.9% | 39.7% |
| 2023-24 | 27.8% | 34.4% |
| 2022-23 | 28.5% | 25.7% |
| 2021-22 | 31.6% | 30.7% |
% 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
30.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.5%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% 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 Summerour Middle School
Summerour Middle School's state test result (30.4% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summerour Middle School this school | 1,319 | 84.8% | 30.4% |
| Sweetwater Middle School Lawrenceville | 1,470 | 82.4% | 33.4% |
| Radloff Middle School Duluth | 1,315 | 90.2% | 22.9% |
| Berkmar Middle School Lilburn | 1,039 | 92.1% | 36.8% |
| Lilburn Middle School Lilburn | 1,636 | 91.7% | 26.2% |
| South Hall Middle School Gainesville | 955 | 77.4% | 34.3% |
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 Summerour Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Gwinnett County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.4% | #310 of 470 | #27 of 30 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.7% | #229 of 474 ▲ 25 | #21 of 30 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 27.9% | #332 of 474 ▲ 22 | #27 of 30 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.7pp | #301 of 465 | #15 of 30 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,319 | #37 of 487 | #17 of 30 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.1:1 | #59 of 471 | #1 of 30 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 39.7% | #360 of 471 | #27 of 30 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 84.8% | #228 of 479 | #4 of 30 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.9% | #34 of 305 | #1 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
1,319
-273 (-17%) vs 2020
+62% since 1990-91, when it was 814
Student : Teacher
12.1:1
was 14.1:1
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 | 1,319 | 109.1 | 12.1:1 | 85% (1,118) |
| 2023-24 | 1,411 | 119 | 11.9:1 | 90% (1,270) |
| 2022-23 | 1,465 | 112.5 | 13.0:1 | 90% (1,313) |
| 2020-21 | 1,592 | 113 | 14.1:1 | 85% (1,361) |
| 2017-18 | 1,734 | 115.5 | 15.0:1 | 88% (1,532) |
| 2015-16 | 1,631 | 103 | 15.8:1 | 90% (1,472) |
| 2010-11 | 1,172 | 81 | 14.5:1 | 91% (1,066) |
| 2000-01 | 1,093 | 71 | 15.4:1 | 69% (757) |
| 1990-91 | 814 | 48 | 17.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Summerour Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 24% (1,734 to 1,319); teachers down 6% (115.5 to 109.1).
About Summerour Middle School
Summerour Middle School is a high-enrollment middle school in Georgia, located in Norcross. The school runs grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 1,319 students. Middle schools in Georgia average about 763 students, which makes this school 73% above average.
Summerour Middle School is one of 141 schools in Gwinnett County, which enrolls 182,518 students in total.
More than half of enrollment at Summerour Middle School is Hispanic: 76%. Other groups make up 14% Black, 6% Asian, and 2% White. Gwinnett County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Summerour Middle School scores 40%.
For every teacher at Summerour Middle School, there are about 12.1 students; the school has 109.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. Compared with the 14.1:1 average for middle schools in Georgia, this school's ratio is lower. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 85%. Compared with the 60% average for public schools in Gwinnett County, the school's rate is higher.
Summerour Middle School earns a C on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 31% of Georgia public middle schools.
On BeatsExpectations, Summerour Middle School is 3.2 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Georgia schools.
In Gwinnett County, home to about 979,864 people, median household income comes to about $87,890, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of people live in poverty. There are 150 public schools in the county, enrolling about 196,924, Summerour Middle School among them.
Baldwin Elementary sits about 0.2 miles from Summerour Middle School. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. By average proficiency, Summerour Middle School is 3rd among 8 schools close by.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
Federal enrollment counts fell from 1,592 (2020-21) to 1,319 (2024-25). Federal data show the ratio falling from 14.1:1 to 12.1:1.
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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 Norcross
- Meadowcreek High SchoolHigh · 2,609 students
- Norcross High SchoolHigh · 2,317 students
- Paul Duke STEM High SchoolHigh · 1,509 students
- Graves Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,076 students
- Rockbridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 990 students
- Beaver Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 984 students
Nearby schools
- Baldwin Elementary0.2 mi · 914
- Norcross Elementary School0.4 mi · 751
- Brookhaven Innovation Academy1.1 mi · 524
- Gwinnett Intervention Education Center (GIVE) West1.3 mi · 227
- Paul Duke STEM High School1.4 mi · 1,509
- Stripling Elementary School1.7 mi · 799
Frequently asked questions
About Summerour Middle SchoolHow large is Summerour Middle School?
Summerour Middle School enrolls approximately 1,319 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Summerour Middle School serve?
Summerour Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does Summerour Middle School have?
Summerour Middle School employs 109 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.1:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Summerour Middle School?
At Summerour Middle School, the student body is approximately 2% White, 76% Hispanic, 14% Black, 6% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Summerour Middle School public or private?
Summerour Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Gwinnett County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.