NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools GA

Best-Resourced Schools in Dacula, GA

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8 public K-12 schools in Dacula from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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8
Schools
10,676
Students
43.8/100
Avg Resource Index
14.6:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Dacula has more public-school enrollment than 82% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Dacula sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

6 of Dacula's 8 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 13-point gap between Puckett's Mill Elementary School and Dacula High School shows the range hidden by Dacula's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 18%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
64th percentile
Teacher staffing
60th percentile

Dacula High School accounts for 23.2% of all Dacula public-school enrollment

That concentration means Dacula-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Dacula school enrollment varies 3.8× across entities

Dacula school enrollment ranges from 645 students (lowest) to 2,481 students (highest), a spread of 1,836 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Dacula operates one school district — a single-district system

Dacula's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Dacula student-teacher ratio is 14.6:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Dacula is typically wider than the Dacula-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Puckett's Mill Elementary School 49
2. Fort Daniel Elementary School 47
3. Harbins Elementary School 46
4. Dacula Middle School 45
5. Dyer Elementary School 45
6. Dacula Elementary School 42
7. Alcova Elementary School 40
8. Dacula High School 36

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Dacula

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Fort Daniel Elementary School 77.6/100
  2. 2 Dyer Elementary School 73.9/100
  3. 3 Dacula Elementary School 73.2/100
  4. 4 Puckett's Mill Elementary School 72.7/100
  5. 5 Harbins Elementary School 69.2/100

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Which Dacula school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Puckett's Mill Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Dacula schools in this federal-data comparison at 49/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Dacula, GA? ▼

Dacula has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 10,676 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.6:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.