Gwinnett Online Campus, Lawrenceville GA

Original Research by School Decision on Gwinnett Online Campus

Gwinnett Online Campus serves the full K-12 span in Lawrenceville as a fully remote school within Gwinnett County Public Schools. It enrolls a school of roughly two thousand students, making it a mid-sized online program within its district. The enrollment skews substantially toward the secondary grades, with high school accounting for about a third of the total.

The student body reflects meaningful economic need. Nearly half the students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Racially and ethnically, the school is diverse: roughly a third are Black, a quarter are Hispanic, a quarter are white, and about a fourteenth are Asian. The enrollment spans pre-K through grade twelve, though the early elementary cohorts are quite small.

State testing results from the most recent school year present a mixed academic picture. English language arts shows the strongest performance, with proficiency rates hovering around half across grades five through eight, and slightly lower proficiency in grades three and four. Mathematics is considerably weaker across all grades, with proficiency rates in the low-to-mid range in elementary and dipping below a third across the middle grades. Science proficiency is uneven: grade five reaches roughly half, but grade eight sits at roughly a quarter. In social studies, eighth-grade proficiency sits around a third. No prior-year testing data is available, so trends cannot be assessed.

When positioned against other districts in Gwinnett County, Gwinnett Online Campus ranks in the bottom quartile for overall proficiency across tested subjects and grades. Graduation rate data and chronic absenteeism data are not available for this school. A parent may want to look into this further with the school, as online programs sometimes carry different reporting requirements or operational structures that affect data completeness. Data on the school's special education enrollment rate, English learner population, discipline practices, and course offerings was not available.

The school operates in Lawrenceville, a county-seat suburb about thirty miles northeast of Atlanta. The broader Gwinnett County market shows moderate recent housing softness, with home values declining slightly year-over-year. Rental rates are also softening modestly. The area is experiencing substantial new residential and mixed-use development, particularly downtown, with major apartment and hotel projects underway and a proposed bus rapid transit connection to Atlanta MARTA in the works.

Parents choosing this school are selecting a fully online, district-operated remote program rather than a traditional campus-based school. For students who thrive in self-directed, digital-first learning environments, or who have schedule or health constraints that make brick-and-mortar attendance difficult, this pathway offers flexibility. The testing data suggests students in this program face academic headwinds, particularly in mathematics and science, relative to their county peers. Whether this reflects the online modality itself, the student population served, or other factors is not apparent from the data provided.

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Academic performance

State test results and graduation outcomes.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

60-64%Cohort of 146 students · Class of 2021

The federal source publishes a banded range instead of an exact rate when the graduating cohort is small enough that an exact number could risk identifying individual students.

How this school compares to all schools in this state

Each dot is one school’s SY 2020-21 graduation rate, binned by integer rate. Taller columns mean more schools at that rate. This school is highlighted.

467 schools plotted. 22 additional schools' rates are federally suppressed and not shown. Data: EDFacts SY 2020-21.

Math

Grade 339%

School 39% · District 49% · ▼ 10 pts below district

▼ 1 pts below state median · ▼ 9 pts below county median

Grade 438%

School 38% · District 55% · ▼ 18 pts below district

▼ 7 pts below state median · ▼ 16 pts below county median

Grade 524%

School 24% · District 50% · ▼ 26 pts below district

▼ 14 pts below state median · ▼ 22 pts below county median

Grade 622%

School 22% · District 47% · ▼ 25 pts below district

▼ 9 pts below state median · ▼ 25 pts below county median

Grade 733%

School 33% · District 50% · ▼ 16 pts below district

▼ 1 pts below state median · ▼ 15 pts below county median

Grade 836%

School 36% · District 58% · ▼ 22 pts below district

▼ 6 pts below state median · ▼ 18 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 334%

School 34% · District 39% · ▼ 5 pts below district

▲ 3 pts above state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

Grade 437%

School 37% · District 43% · ▼ 7 pts below district

▲ 2 pts above state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

Grade 557%

School 57% · District 49% · ▲ 8 pts above district

▲ 18 pts above state median · ▲ 9 pts above county median

Grade 657%

School 57% · District 49% · ▲ 8 pts above district

▲ 22 pts above state median · ▲ 6 pts above county median

Grade 751%

School 51% · District 49% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▲ 16 pts above state median · ▲ 3 pts above county median

Grade 851%

School 51% · District 47% · ▲ 4 pts above district

▲ 16 pts above state median · ▲ 6 pts above county median

Science

Grade 548%

School 48% · District 52% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▲ 9 pts above state median · ▼ 2 pts below county median

Grade 826%

School 26% · District 0% · ▲ 25 pts above district

even with state median · ▼ 11 pts below county median

Social studies

Grade 832%

School 32% · District 50% · ▼ 17 pts below district

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▼ 3 pts below county median

This schoolGwinnett County, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income45%Higher-income43%2 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income53%Higher-income59%6 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income45%Higher-income81%36 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income42%Higher-income70%28 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income47%Higher-income64%17 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income44%Higher-income68%24 pp gap

Grades 3-8Lower-income46%Higher-income66%20 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income27%Higher-income45%18 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income31%Higher-income61%30 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income9%Higher-income39%30 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income11%Higher-income37%26 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income39%Higher-income53%14 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income28%Higher-income54%26 pp gap

Grades 3-8Lower-income26%Higher-income49%23 pp gap