Summary:
Zip code 30097, spanning parts of Duluth and Johns Creek, Georgia, is home to five elementary schools serving approximately 3,670 students in Pre-K through 5th grade across the Gwinnett County and Fulton County districts.
This is an exceptional cluster of schools, with four of the five earning 5-star ratings and ranking in the top 44 of Georgia's 1,219 elementary schools. Wilson Creek Elementary School leads the pack as the state's #10 school, showing remarkable consistency with math proficiency between 85.6% and 89.3% across all grade levels and a chronic absenteeism rate of just 3.5%. Shakerag Elementary School boasts the lowest chronic absenteeism in the group at 2.5% and posts the single highest subject score among all five schools with 95.1% proficiency in 4th grade math. Abbotts Hill Elementary School is the most improved, jumping 45 spots to #15 in the state, while Findley Oaks Elementary School rounds out the top group at #44. The clear outlier is Chattahoochee Elementary School, the only Gwinnett County school, which ranks #228 and posts math scores roughly 25–35 percentage points lower than its Fulton County neighbors.
Attendance strongly tracks with achievement: the three schools with the lowest absenteeism rates (Shakerag, Abbotts Hill, Wilson Creek) are also the top three ranked. Interestingly, per-student spending shows no correlation with outcomes—Wilson Creek spends the least among Fulton schools ($14,595) yet achieves the best results, while Findley Oaks spends the most ($19,610) but ranks lowest in that group. All five schools exceed state averages in every subject, and even Chattahoochee, with a higher free/reduced lunch population (48.37%), outperforms state averages in science by nearly 26 points. For parents, this zip code offers an unusually high concentration of elite elementary options, with the main differentiator being district boundaries rather than school quality.
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