McKendree Elementary School, Lawrenceville: zone and report card

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

McKendree Elementary School is a Gwinnett County Public Schools elementary school whose zone takes in a small part of Lawrenceville. It teaches pre-K through fifth grade on Riverside Parkway, outside Lawrenceville city limits in unincorporated Gwinnett County, with a Lawrenceville mailing address, and is in the district’s Collins Hill Cluster.

• Address: 1600 Riverside Parkway, Lawrenceville, GA 30043
• Phone: 678-377-8933
• Grades: pre-K to 5
• Website: mckendreees.gcpsk12.org

Who to call

• McKendree Elementary front office: 678-377-8933
• 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 Courtney Bernardo, according to the school’s website and the district’s school directory.

Enrollment and teachers

The state counted 1,148 students at McKendree Elementary in its 2025 School Grades data. The most recent federal figure, from the NCES directory for the 2023-24 school year, is 998 students and 86 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 11.6 students per teacher.

State report card

McKendree Elementary’s 2025 CCRPI single score was 73.8, 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 72.0 in 2023, 81.2 in 2024 and 73.8 in 2025. The full report card, with subgroups and the parts of the score, is on the state’s McKendree 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 39.8% of third graders and 48.6% 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 Collins Hill 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, McKendree Elementary’s zone covers 2 of the 14,152 addresses inside Lawrenceville city limits, less than 1%. In all, inside and outside the city, it covers about 6,299 addresses with a Lawrenceville mailing address. Our neighborhoods guide shows which parts of the city each school serves.

Students go on to Creekland Middle and then Collins Hill 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 8:15 a.m. to 2:45 p.m.

More

• The school’s website
• The state’s report card for McKendree Elementary
• The district’s Collins Hill Cluster page, which lists every school in the cluster
• The district’s directory page for McKendree 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 McKendree Elementary School’s CCRPI score?

73.8 in 2025, according to the state’s School Grades data, against a Georgia elementary school average of 78.6. It was 81.2 in 2024.

What time does McKendree Elementary School start?

8:15 a.m., with dismissal at 2:45 p.m., according to the district’s school directory.

Which middle school does McKendree Elementary feed into?

Creekland Middle, then Collins Hill High, according to the district’s zone map data.

What grades does McKendree Elementary School serve?

Pre-K through fifth grade, according to the district’s school directory.

Who is the principal of McKendree Elementary School?

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