White Oak Elementary School

White Oak Elementary School is a mid-tier elementary campus in Sugar Hill, Georgia, part of Gwinnett County. The school instructs 722 students in grades pre-K through 5.

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

Looking at the student body, White Oak Elementary School logs that 46% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 20% Hispanic, 15% Black, 12% Asian, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Gwinnett County as a whole is about 33% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. Roughly 32% of students at White Oak Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Gwinnett County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, White Oak Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.7%, the actual is 68.1%, a residual of +7.5 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Gwinnett County shows median household earnings sit near $87,890, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. White Oak Elementary School is one of 150 public schools in Gwinnett County (combined enrollment of about 196,924 students).

Lanier Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), White Oak Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 68.3%.

White Oak Elementary School operates from an outer-ring location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 7%: 776 students in 2018 compared to 722 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 59% to 46% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

Inside the community feed, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.