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Bay Creek Middle School

Zoned GCPS middle school in Grayson — seats are assigned by home address in the Bay Creek attendance zone of the Grayson cluster.

  • Grades: 6–8
  • How to get in: Zoned by home address
  • Cluster: Grayson
  • Area: Grayson (east Gwinnett)
  • Student mix: 58.9 / 100

Bay Creek Middle is a zoned middle school in the Grayson cluster; students go on to Grayson High School. It is the GCPS middle school that continues the district’s French Dual Language Immersion program from Trip Elementary. Visit and ask questions before treating any ranking or reputation claim as a fit guarantee.

821 Cooper Road, Grayson, GA 30017

Official starting points

  • School site: baycreekms.gcpsk12.org
  • Zoning: GCPS Grayson cluster page and GCPS permissive transfers
  • GCPS school profile: gcpsk12.org › School Profiles › Bay Creek Middle School
  • State data: GaDOE CCRPI at ccrpi.gadoe.org and GOSA Georgia School Grades Report

GCPS district:678-301-6000 (main)678-301-7085 (Planning, attendance boundaries)Find My School

What this school is

  • DLI French continuation (cohort) — for students continuing from the French DLI elementary path. The school’s DLI page describes three required yearlong advanced French language and literacy courses plus two semester culture and media courses (GCPS DLI news page; school DLI page).
  • Connections (electives) listed by the school include band, chorus, dance, orchestra, guitar, music technology, engineering, marketing, Spanish, visual arts and Junior Leadership Corps.
  • Ram Time — a daily block the bell-schedule page describes as extra time for standards mastery, interventions and academic support.
  • Gifted (PROBE) — GCPS middle schools offer gifted classes in math, science, social studies and language arts for students who qualify, placed by area of strength (GCPS PROBE page). Ask which subjects are offered here.

Test scores and state ratings are not reproduced here — check GaDOE CCRPI and GOSA directly. Admit rates and rankings: Not publicly available in this guide.

Principal

Melissa M. Miller

School details

Address
821 Cooper Road, Grayson, GA 30017
  • School hours: 8:40 AM – 4:00 PM (school-published hours). GCPS directory lists 9:20 AM – 4:00 PM. Confirm the current student bell schedule directly with Bay Creek.
  • Source: School site; GCPS directory and school profile. Hours: school site (School Hours page) and GCPS directory

How families get in

Type: Zoned GCPS middle school — assigned by home address (not a lottery or application school).

  • Feeder elementary schools (GCPS Grayson cluster page): Grayson Elementary School and Trip Elementary School. Confirm your address with GCPS before buying or renting for a school.
  • Next step: students go on to Grayson High School.
  • Living elsewhere in Gwinnett: a permissive transfer is possible only if the school is on GCPS’s current transfer list. Approvals are capacity-based and must be renewed each year — see GCPS permissive transfers.
  • Admit rate: Not applicable (zoned school).

Never treat social media dates as official.

Who it tends to fit

A good match when

  • You live in the Bay Creek zone and your student is continuing French DLI from Trip Elementary.
  • Your student wants a wide choice of fine-arts and career Connections classes.
  • You want a daily built-in support block (Ram Time) in the schedule.

Think twice when

  • Your student is not in DLI and you were counting on immersion — DLI is a continuation cohort, not open to every student.
  • Your student does better in a smaller school — the GCPS directory lists about 1,500 students.
  • You live outside the zone and need a guaranteed transfer seat.

Students

Race/ethnicity mix (GaDOE FTE enrollment count; approximate percentages, not a ranking):

  • Black ≈ 61% · Hispanic ≈ 15% · White ≈ 11% · Asian ≈ 10% · Two or more ≈ 4% · other groups hidden (very small)
  • Total enrollment about 1,500 students (GCPS directory, rounded)
  • Student mix score: 58.9 out of 100 (Gwinnett County overall: 72.9) — the chance that two randomly chosen students are from different racial/ethnic groups; 0 = all one group, higher = more mixed. This guide’s own calculation, 100 × (1 − Σ group share²), from GaDOE enrollment counts — not an official GCPS or state rating, and it does not reflect income or education.

Source: Georgia Department of Education, FTE Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity and Gender. Percentages are rounded and may not total 100. For official Georgia accountability, use GaDOE CCRPI and the GOSA School Grades Report.

Location and daily life

Cooper Road in Grayson. The school’s transportation and car-rider pages cover drop-off procedures. GCPS buses serve students who live in the attendance zone; stop and time details are listed in ParentVUE (GCPS Transportation). Families attending through a permissive transfer are responsible for arranging transportation. GCPS does not provide regular transportation for permissive transfers.

Compare before you commit

Questions to ask on a tour

  1. 1.How do DLI French students’ schedules differ from other students’ schedules?
  2. 2.How are students placed in gifted (PROBE), accelerated or advanced classes?
  3. 3.Which Connections (elective) classes are available in each grade, and how are they assigned?
  4. 4.How do new students find clubs, teams and a friend group in the first weeks?
  5. 5.Which courses can 8th graders take for high school credit?

What to do next

  1. 1.Confirm your address is zoned for Bay Creek Middle School using the GCPS cluster pages.
  2. 2.Check GaDOE CCRPI and the GOSA School Grades Report for official school data.
  3. 3.Tour the school and ask about the programs that matter to your student.
  4. 4.Register through GCPS Online Registration.