Sweetwater Middle School, Lawrenceville: zone and report card

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

Sweetwater Middle School is a Gwinnett County Public Schools middle school that serves unincorporated areas around Lawrenceville. It teaches sixth through eighth grade on Cruse Road, outside Lawrenceville city limits in unincorporated Gwinnett County, with a Lawrenceville mailing address, and is in the district’s Berkmar Cluster.

• Address: 3500 Cruse Road, Lawrenceville, GA 30044
• Phone: 770-923-4131
• Grades: 6 to 8
• Website: sweetwaterms.gcpsk12.org

Who to call

• Sweetwater Middle front office: 770-923-4131
• 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

Dr. Ivelisse Hernandez is the principal, according to the school’s website and the district’s school directory.

Enrollment and teachers

The state counted 1,620 students at Sweetwater Middle in its 2025 School Grades data. The most recent federal figure, from the NCES directory for the 2023-24 school year, is 1,441 students and 104 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 13.9 students per teacher.

State report card

Sweetwater Middle’s 2025 CCRPI single score was 70.3, 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 66.9 in 2023, 72.0 in 2024 and 70.3 in 2025. The full report card, with subgroups and the parts of the score, is on the state’s Sweetwater 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 51% 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 Berkmar Cluster map (PDF) shows the cluster’s school zones.

None of the 14,152 addresses inside Lawrenceville city limits is zoned for Sweetwater Middle, by our match of Gwinnett County’s address data to the district’s zone map, which the county last updated on Oct. 2, 2026. Its zone covers about 12,320 addresses outside the city that carry a Lawrenceville mailing address.

Sweetwater Middle draws from Bethesda, Corley and Kanoheda elementary schools, and students go on to Berkmar 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 4:05 p.m.

More

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

70.3 in 2025, according to the state’s School Grades data, against a Georgia middle school average of 78.4. It was 72.0 in 2024.

What time does Sweetwater Middle School start?

9:20 a.m., with dismissal at 4:05 p.m., according to the district’s school directory.

Which high school does Sweetwater Middle feed into?

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

What grades does Sweetwater Middle School serve?

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

Who is the principal of Sweetwater Middle School?

Dr. Ivelisse Hernandez, according to the district’s school directory and the school’s website on Oct. 6, 2026.