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Enrollment
1,106
Elementary
DISTRICT 956 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GWINNETT COUNTY·NCES 130255003893
Woodward Mill Elementary School
2020 Buford Dr, Lawrenceville, GA 30043 · (678) 407-7590 · Gwinnett County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,106 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 74% of Georgia public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- FThree-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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
83 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
61%
670 students
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 74%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 31 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 166 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 178 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 191 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 187 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 173 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 180 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (166) is 8% smaller than its 5th grade class (180).
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
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
47.4%
GA avg 40.1% . -8.0pp since 2021
Math
56.3%
GA avg 44.6% . -7.2pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 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 8 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 7 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.4% | 56.3% |
| 2023-24 | 52.3% | 61.9% |
| 2022-23 | 50.1% | 61.2% |
| 2021-22 | 55.5% | 63.5% |
% 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
56.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.0%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% 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 Woodward Mill Elementary School
Woodward Mill Elementary School's state test result (56.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodward Mill Elementary School this school | 1,106 | 60.6% | 56.5% |
| Taylor Elementary School Lawrenceville | 883 | 63.0% | 52.4% |
| Walnut Grove Elementary School Suwanee | 819 | 57.3% | 58.2% |
| Dyer Elementary School Dacula | 944 | 57.8% | 60.7% |
| Freeman's Mill Elementary School Lawrenceville | 1,011 | 56.9% | 68.1% |
| Rock Springs Elementary School Lawrenceville | 801 | 62.9% | 45.6% |
Matched among Georgia elementary 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 Woodward Mill Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Gwinnett County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 56.5% | #240 of 1,208 | #32 of 84 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 56.3% | #304 of 1,215 ▼ 83 | #34 of 84 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.4% | #309 of 1,215 ▼ 31 | #34 of 84 ▼ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -7.6pp | #59 of 1,183 | #11 of 83 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,106 | #44 of 1,324 | #22 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.4:1 | #644 of 1,301 | #60 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 74.6% | #29 of 1,301 | #20 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 60.6% | #939 of 1,312 | #50 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +7.1% | #237 of 386 | #20 of 31 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
1,106
+151 (+16%) vs 2020
+21% since 2010-11, when it was 912
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
was 14.7:1
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 | 1,106 | 82.7 | 13.4:1 | 61% (670) |
| 2023-24 | 1,041 | 78.3 | 13.3:1 | 61% (630) |
| 2022-23 | 1,020 | 69.9 | 14.6:1 | 47% (482) |
| 2020-21 | 955 | 65 | 14.7:1 | 43% (411) |
| 2017-18 | 1,033 | 64.5 | 16.0:1 | 51% (524) |
| 2015-16 | 1,021 | 62 | 16.5:1 | 47% (480) |
| 2010-11 | 912 | 56 | 16.3:1 | 51% (462) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Woodward Mill Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 7% (1,033 to 1,106); teachers up 28% (64.5 to 82.7).
About Woodward Mill Elementary School
Woodward Mill Elementary School is the name of a large elementary school in Lawrenceville, Georgia. The school enrolls 1,106 students, from pre-K through 5. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Georgia) has about 605 students.
Woodward Mill Elementary School belongs to Gwinnett County, a district of 141 schools and 182,518 students.
By race and ethnicity, the largest group at Woodward Mill Elementary School is Hispanic (35%). Other groups include 26% Black, 21% White, 13% Asian, and 5% multiracial. The county population is about 24% Hispanic. By the diversity index, Woodward Mill Elementary School comes in at 75%.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.4:1 at Woodward Mill Elementary School, with 82.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. Elementary schools in Georgia have a similar average ratio of 13.3:1. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 61%. Across public schools in Gwinnett County, the average is about the same, 60%.
Woodward Mill Elementary School is graded B+ by allk12, scoring above 74% of Georgia public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Schools in Georgia with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 46.0%. Woodward Mill Elementary School scores 56.5%.
Gwinnett County has about 979,864 residents, and median household income is about $87,890, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 39% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 9%. Federal data list 150 public schools in Gwinnett County, with a combined enrollment of about 196,924.
Nearest public school: Taylor Elementary School, about 1.1 miles away. The five-mile area around Woodward Mill Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Woodward Mill Elementary School at 3rd of 8.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was 955 in 2020-21 and 1,106 in 2024-25, a gain of 151 students. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (13.4:1) than in 2020-21 (14.7:1).
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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 Lawrenceville
- Archer High SchoolHigh · 3,058 students
- Discovery High SchoolHigh · 2,703 students
- Central Gwinnett High SchoolHigh · 2,414 students
- Mountain View High SchoolHigh · 2,221 students
- Gwinnett Online CampusCombined · 1,996 students
- Richards Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,974 students
Nearby schools
- Taylor Elementary School1.1 mi · 883
- Collins Hill High School2.0 mi · 2,485
- Rock Springs Elementary School2.0 mi · 801
- Creekland Middle School2.0 mi · 1,693
- Walnut Grove Elementary School2.1 mi · 819
- Devereux Ackerman Academy - Gwinnett2.6 mi · 17
Frequently asked questions
About Woodward Mill Elementary SchoolHow large is Woodward Mill Elementary School?
Woodward Mill Elementary School enrolls approximately 1,106 students in grades PK-05.
Is Woodward Mill Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Woodward Mill Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Woodward Mill Elementary School have?
Woodward Mill Elementary School employs 83 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.4:1.
What is the student diversity at Woodward Mill Elementary School?
Student demographics at Woodward Mill Elementary School are roughly 21% White, 35% Hispanic, 26% Black, 13% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Woodward Mill Elementary School in?
Woodward Mill Elementary School is part of Gwinnett County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.