Jenkins Elementary, 12 Village Way: K-5, 869 students in 2025, CCRPI 75.2. Zone, feeders and the 8:50 a.m. start.

Last checked Oct. 6, 2026. Sources: the Jenkins 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.

Jenkins Elementary School is a Gwinnett County Public Schools elementary school whose zone covers a large part of Lawrenceville. It teaches kindergarten through fifth grade on Village Way, inside Lawrenceville city limits, and is in the district’s Central Gwinnett Cluster.

Who to call

Principal

Principal Tameika Turner-Haynes, according to the school’s website and the district’s school directory.

Enrollment and teachers

The state counted 869 students at Jenkins Elementary in its 2025 School Grades data. The most recent federal figure, from the NCES directory for the 2023-24 school year, is 745 students and 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 13.1 students per teacher.

State report card

Jenkins Elementary’s 2025 CCRPI single score was 75.2, 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 59.7 in 2023, 73.4 in 2024 and 75.2 in 2025. The full report card, with subgroups and the parts of the score, is on the state’s Jenkins 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:

Subject Proficient Distinguished
English language arts 24.5% 7.2%
Math 27% 9.9%
Science (fifth grade) 25.6% 9.4%

The same data put 35.5% of third graders and 45.3% 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 Central Gwinnett 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, Jenkins Elementary’s zone covers 2,479 of the 14,152 addresses inside Lawrenceville city limits, about 18%. In all, inside and outside the city, it covers about 4,046 addresses with a Lawrenceville mailing address. Our neighborhoods guide shows which parts of the city each school serves.

Students go on to Jordan Middle and then Central Gwinnett 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. The school’s website puts the tardy bell at 8:50 a.m. and dismissal at 3:20 p.m.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Jenkins Elementary School’s CCRPI score?

75.2 in 2025, according to the state’s School Grades data, against a Georgia elementary school average of 78.6. It was 73.4 in 2024.

What time does Jenkins 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 Jenkins Elementary feed into?

Jordan Middle, then Central Gwinnett High, according to the district’s zone map data.

What grades does Jenkins Elementary School serve?

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

Who is the principal of Jenkins Elementary School?

Tameika Turner-Haynes, according to the district’s school directory and the school’s website on Oct. 6, 2026.