Benefield Elementary School, Lawrenceville: zone and report card

Last checked Oct. 6, 2026. Sources: the Benefield Elementary website, Gwinnett County Public Schools’ school directory, Find My School tool, zone map data published by Gwinnett County, 2026-27 calendar, the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement’s 2025 School Grades data and the federal NCES school directory.

Benefield Elementary School is a Gwinnett County Public Schools elementary school whose zone takes in a small part of Lawrenceville. It teaches kindergarten through fifth grade on Old Norcross Road, inside Lawrenceville city limits, and is in the district’s Discovery Cluster.

• Address: 1221 Old Norcross Road, Lawrenceville, GA 30046
• Phone: 770-962-3771
• Grades: kindergarten to 5
• Website: benefieldes.gcpsk12.org

Who to call

• Benefield Elementary front office: 770-962-3771
• Register a new student: the district’s online enrollment, then the school’s registrar
• Bus routes: the school, or the district’s Transportation Department, 770-338-4800
• Gwinnett County Public Schools main line: 678-301-6000
• Is this your school? Check an address with Find My School, or call the district’s Planning Department at 678-301-7085

Principal

Principal Shonda Stevens, according to the school’s website and the district’s school directory.

Enrollment and teachers

The state counted 1,270 students at Benefield Elementary in its 2025 School Grades data. The most recent federal figure, from the NCES directory for the 2023-24 school year, is 1,248 students and 85 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 14.7 students per teacher.

State report card

Benefield Elementary’s 2025 CCRPI single score was 75.4, according to the state’s School Grades data. The Georgia average for elementary schools was 78.6 and Gwinnett County Public Schools’ was 82.9. The school’s single score was 74.5 in 2023, 79.1 in 2024 and 75.4 in 2025. The full report card, with subgroups and the parts of the score, is on the state’s Benefield Elementary report card.

CCRPI is the Georgia Department of Education’s “comprehensive school improvement, accountability, and communication platform,” according to GaDOE. The single score runs from 0 to 100 and is built from content mastery, progress, closing gaps and readiness, plus graduation rate for high schools. Georgia does not publish an A-to-F letter grade for schools in its 2025 data.

Georgia Milestones end-of-grade tests, 2025, share of tested students at each of the two top levels:

The same data put 33.3% of third graders and 54.3% of fifth graders reading at or above grade level, against 41.7% and 55.1% statewide.

Attendance zone

Zones are set by Gwinnett County Public Schools and do not follow city limits. Check any address with Find My School; the district’s Discovery Cluster map (PDF) shows the cluster’s school zones.

By our match of Gwinnett County’s address data to the district’s zone map, which the county last updated on Oct. 2, 2026, Benefield Elementary’s zone covers 86 of the 14,152 addresses inside Lawrenceville city limits, less than 1%. In all, inside and outside the city, it covers about 5,540 addresses with a Lawrenceville mailing address. Our neighborhoods guide shows which parts of the city each school serves.

Students go on to Richards Middle and then Discovery High, according to the district’s zone map data.

We found no rezoning approved by the Board of Education that changes this zone. Gwinnett County Public Schools paused its multi-year redistricting plan effective Sept. 23, 2026, and says it will not redraw attendance boundaries for the 2027-28 school year; it plans community conversations in the second semester.

Calendar

From the district’s 2026-27 student calendar (PDF) (all district dates on the calendar page):

• Monday, Oct. 12, to Friday, Oct. 16: fall break, no school
• Oct. 28-29: early release for kindergarten through eighth grade, for parent-teacher conferences
• Tuesday, Nov. 3: Election Day; a Digital Learning Day, when students learn from home
• Nov. 23-27: Thanksgiving break
• Dec. 21 to Jan. 4: winter break; the second semester begins Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2027
• March 3-4, 2027: early release for kindergarten through eighth grade
• April 5-9, 2027: spring break
• Wednesday, May 26, 2027: last day of school

Bell times

The district’s school directory lists student hours of 8:50 a.m. to 3:20 p.m.

More

• The school’s website
• The state’s report card for Benefield Elementary
• The district’s Discovery Cluster page, which lists every school in the cluster
• The district’s directory page for Benefield Elementary
• Every public school that serves Lawrenceville, with zones and scores: our Lawrenceville public schools guide
• District calendar, registration and the Board of Education: our Lawrenceville schools guide

Frequently asked questions

What is Benefield Elementary School’s CCRPI score?

75.4 in 2025, according to the state’s School Grades data, against a Georgia elementary school average of 78.6. It was 79.1 in 2024.

What time does Benefield Elementary School start?

8:50 a.m., with dismissal at 3:20 p.m., according to the district’s school directory.

Which middle school does Benefield Elementary feed into?

Richards Middle, then Discovery High, according to the district’s zone map data.

What grades does Benefield Elementary School serve?

Kindergarten through fifth grade, according to the district’s school directory.

Who is the principal of Benefield Elementary School?

Shonda Stevens, according to the district’s school directory and the school’s website on Oct. 6, 2026.