What is Gwinnett County Schools doing?

[CravingMountains]

Originally Posted by demonta4

If that's the case Clayton schools would do better.

Clayton county was only 5% Asian according to the 2010 census.

Clayton County, Georgia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gwinnett is 11% Asian.

Gwinnett County QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau

I'm actually shocked it is only 11% Asian! When I go up to Buford Highway every store in sight seems to be in an Asian language. I thought they would be at least 25% of the county. lol

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by CravingMountains

Clayton county was only 5% Asian according to the 2010 census.

Clayton County, Georgia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gwinnett is 11% Asian.

Gwinnett County QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau

I'm actually shocked it is only 11% Asian! When I go up to Buford Highway every store in sight seems to be in an Asian language. I thought they would be at least 25% of the county. lol

There is more to Gwinnett County than the Buford Highway area. You have the areas from Lawrenceville down to Snellville as well.

[Born 2 Roll]

Originally Posted by waronxmas

It's a stupid, incorrect, stereotype but Gwinnett is filled with more affluent East Asians from China and Korea mostly as well as Indians while Clayton County is filled with working class and poor Southeast Asians. Huge demographic differences between those groups.

If I were to venture a guess though, Gwinnett overall seems to have the most even income distribution of any of Atlanta's counties. The majority of the population there is either middle class or upper middle class. In Fulton, Dekalb, and Cobb however there are very affluent regions and very poor regions mixed together. Whenever you have such an income disparity, there will be an equal education disparity.

That's a good assumption that Gwinnett County seems to have the most even income distribution of any of Atlanta's metro counties.

But it should be noted that Gwinnett County also has a substantially-large and fast-growing transient population in many parts of the county, particularly in the attendance zones for Meadowcreek, Berkmar, Central Gwinnett, South Gwinnett, Shiloh, Norcross and Duluth high schools because of the overabundance of affordable multi-family housing (apartments and townhomes) that the county's notorious developer-dominated governing culture encouraged the construction of throughout those areas.

That the Gwinnett school system is able to perform so well academically while having to educate a very-large amount of lower-income and transient students (including a very-large amount of students for whom English is not a first language) makes the overall success of the Gwinnett County Schools system even all the more impressive.