Richards Middle School, Lawrenceville: zone, report card and calendar

Last checked Oct. 6, 2026. Sources: the Richards Middle 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.

Richards Middle School is a Gwinnett County Public Schools middle school whose zone takes in a small part of Lawrenceville. It teaches sixth through eighth grade on Sugarloaf Parkway, outside Lawrenceville city limits in unincorporated Gwinnett County, with a Lawrenceville mailing address, and is in the district’s Discovery Cluster.

• Address: 3555 Sugarloaf Parkway, Lawrenceville, GA 30044
• Phone: 770-995-7133
• Grades: 6 to 8
• Website: richardsms.gcpsk12.org

Who to call

• Richards Middle front office: 770-995-7133
• 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 Felisha E. Witcher-Caldwell, according to the school’s website and the district’s school directory. The school’s website gives the name as Felisha Caldwell.

Enrollment and teachers

The state counted 2,194 students at Richards Middle in its 2025 School Grades data. The most recent federal figure, from the NCES directory for the 2023-24 school year, is 2,026 students and 136 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 14.9 students per teacher.

State report card

Richards Middle’s 2025 CCRPI single score was 75.4, according to the state’s School Grades data. The Georgia average for middle schools was 78.4 and Gwinnett County Public Schools’ was 84.2. The school’s single score was 61.9 in 2023, 78.3 in 2024 and 75.4 in 2025. The full report card, with subgroups and the parts of the score, is on the state’s Richards Middle 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 53.2% of eighth graders reading at or above grade level, against 56.4% 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, Richards Middle’s zone covers 178 of the 14,152 addresses inside Lawrenceville city limits, about 1%. In all, inside and outside the city, it covers about 17,937 addresses with a Lawrenceville mailing address. Our neighborhoods guide shows which parts of the city each school serves.

Richards Middle draws from Alford, Baggett, Benefield and Cedar Hill elementary schools, and students go on to 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 9:20 a.m. to 4 p.m.

More

• The school’s website
• The state’s report card for Richards Middle
• The district’s Discovery Cluster page, which lists every school in the cluster
• The district’s directory page for Richards Middle
• 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 Richards Middle School’s CCRPI score?

75.4 in 2025, according to the state’s School Grades data, against a Georgia middle school average of 78.4. It was 78.3 in 2024.

What time does Richards Middle School start?

9:20 a.m., with dismissal at 4 p.m., according to the district’s school directory.

Which high school does Richards Middle feed into?

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

What grades does Richards Middle School serve?

Sixth through eighth grade, according to the district’s school directory.

Who is the principal of Richards Middle School?

Felisha E. Witcher-Caldwell, according to the district’s school directory and the school’s website on Oct. 6, 2026.