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Enrollment
1,669
Middle
DISTRICT 1,431 · STATE 763
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GWINNETT COUNTY·NCES 130255003912
Twin Rivers Middle School
2300 Braselton Hwy, Buford, GA 30519 · (678) 407-7550 · Gwinnett County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,669 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
113 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 14.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
58%
975 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 | 539 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 549 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 581 | 35% |
Student demographics
75%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
Twin Rivers Middle School→Mountain View High School
Feeds from
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
60.1%
GA avg 40.1% . -0.2pp since 2021
Math
67.4%
GA avg 44.6% . +6.4pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2021, while math scores are up about 6 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 60.1% | 67.4% |
| 2023-24 | 62.3% | 64.9% |
| 2022-23 | 61.5% | 60.1% |
| 2021-22 | 60.3% | 61.1% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of GA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
71.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.2%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+24.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 47% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 24 points, placing it in Georgia's top 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 Twin Rivers Middle School
Twin Rivers Middle School's state test result (71.3% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Twin Rivers Middle School this school | 1,669 | 58.4% | 71.3% |
| Creekland Middle School Lawrenceville | 1,693 | 65.0% | 45.2% |
| Lanier Middle School Sugar Hill | 1,369 | 50.5% | 70.5% |
| Couch Middle School Grayson | 1,147 | 59.0% | 62.3% |
| Dacula Middle School Dacula | 1,866 | 65.2% | 49.6% |
| Daniell Middle School Marietta | 884 | 57.8% | 47.6% |
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 Twin Rivers Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Gwinnett County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.3% | #23 of 470 | #4 of 30 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 67.4% | #50 of 474 ▲ 5 | #10 of 30 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 60.1% | #53 of 474 ▲ 1 | #9 of 30 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +3.1pp | #287 of 465 | #13 of 30 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,669 | #12 of 487 | #9 of 30 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.8:1 | #300 of 471 | #15 of 30 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 75.0% | #8 of 471 | #8 of 30 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.4% | #340 of 479 | #20 of 30 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.1% | #90 of 305 | #4 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
1,669
-434 (-21%) vs 2020
+16% since 2010-11, when it was 1,443
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
was 17.0:1
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 | 1,669 | 112.8 | 14.8:1 | 58% (975) |
| 2023-24 | 1,627 | 107.4 | 15.2:1 | 60% (976) |
| 2022-23 | 1,616 | 110.4 | 14.6:1 | 46% (740) |
| 2020-21 | 2,103 | 124 | 17.0:1 | 36% (762) |
| 2017-18 | 2,013 | 110.8 | 18.2:1 | 41% (821) |
| 2015-16 | 1,621 | 90 | 18.0:1 | 39% (629) |
| 2010-11 | 1,443 | 91 | 15.9:1 | 39% (556) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Twin Rivers Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 17% (2,013 to 1,669); teachers up 2% (110.8 to 112.8).
About Twin Rivers Middle School
Twin Rivers Middle School serves students in Buford, Georgia, as a large middle school. Students in grades 6 through 8 make up the school's enrollment of 1,669 students. Middle schools in Georgia average about 763 students, which makes this school 119% larger than average.
Gwinnett County enrolls 182,518 students in 141 schools, including Twin Rivers Middle School.
Of every 100 students at Twin Rivers Middle School, about 32 are Black, the largest group. Smaller groups are 29% Hispanic, 21% White, 13% Asian, and 5% multiracial. Census estimates put Gwinnett County at about 28% Black, close to the school's figure. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 75, compared with 70 nationally.
The school lists 112.8 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.8:1. The ratio is within a point of the 14.1:1 average for middle schools in Georgia. A total of 975 students, or 58%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is in line with the 60% average for public schools in Gwinnett County.
Given its lunch-eligibility share, the predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results for Twin Rivers Middle School is 47.2%. It actually posts 71.3%, which is 24.1 points higher and in the top 10% of Georgia schools.
In Gwinnett County, the median household earns about $87,890 a year, about 39% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. Gwinnett County has 150 public schools with about 196,924 students, including Twin Rivers Middle School.
Twin Rivers Middle School's closest public school neighbor is Mountain View High School, about 0.5 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 71.3% is above the 60.4% average for nearby schools.
Twin Rivers Middle School is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels Suburb: Large.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 21%, from 2,103 to 1,669. The number of students per teacher dropped from 17.0 to 14.8 over 4 years.
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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 Buford
- Seckinger High SchoolHigh · 2,318 students
- Buford High SchoolHigh · 1,966 students
- Jones Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,758 students
- Ivy Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,507 students
- Buford Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,426 students
- Buford Senior AcademyElementary · 1,368 students
Nearby schools
- Mountain View High School0.5 mi · 2,221
- Freeman's Mill Elementary School1.1 mi · 1,011
- Fort Daniel Elementary School1.3 mi · 645
- Puckett's Mill Elementary School1.5 mi · 794
- Woodward Mill Elementary School2.8 mi · 1,106
- Seckinger High School3.0 mi · 2,318
Frequently asked questions
About Twin Rivers Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Twin Rivers Middle School?
Twin Rivers Middle School enrolls approximately 1,669 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Twin Rivers Middle School serve?
Twin Rivers Middle School serves grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Twin Rivers Middle School have?
Twin Rivers Middle School employs 113 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.8:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Twin Rivers Middle School?
At Twin Rivers Middle School, the student body is approximately 21% White, 29% Hispanic, 32% Black, 13% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Twin Rivers Middle School public or private?
Twin Rivers 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.