NCES CCD 2024-25 13 schools GA

Best-Resourced Schools in Norcross, GA

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

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13
Schools
14,825
Students
43.2/100
Avg Resource Index
13.1:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Norcross has more public-school enrollment than 88% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Norcross 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

7 of Norcross's 13 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 28-point gap between Gwinnett Intervention Education Center (Give) West and Rockbridge Elementary School shows the range hidden by Norcross'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 12%
School count
Top 28%
Resource Index average
61st percentile
Teacher staffing
78th percentile

Meadowcreek High School accounts for 17.6% of all Norcross public-school enrollment

That concentration means Norcross-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

Norcross school enrollment varies 11× across entities

Norcross school enrollment ranges from 227 students (lowest) to 2,609 students (highest), a spread of 2,382 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. 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

Norcross reports 66.0% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Norcross student-teacher ratio is 13.1:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Gwinnett Intervention Education Center (Give) West 62
2. Summerour Middle School 48
3. Norcross Elementary School 47
4. Brookhaven Innovation Academy 46
5. Stripling Elementary School 43
6. Meadowcreek High School 42
7. Beaver Ridge Elementary School 42
8. Meadowcreek Elementary School 42
9. Paul Duke Stem High School 40
10. Norcross High School 39
11. Graves Elementary School 39
12. Baldwin Elementary 38
13. Rockbridge Elementary School 34

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Norcross

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 Brookhaven Innovation Academy 67.8/100
  2. 2 Paul Duke Stem High School 67.2/100
  3. 3 Norcross High School 60.1/100
  4. 4 Gwinnett Intervention Education Center (Give) West 57.8/100
  5. 5 Stripling Elementary School 50.8/100

What do families ask about schools in Norcross?

Which Norcross school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Gwinnett Intervention Education Center (Give) West has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Norcross schools in this federal-data comparison at 62/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Norcross, GA? ▼

Norcross has 13 public schools with a total enrollment of 14,825 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.1:1.

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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.