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Fort Daniel Elementary School

Zoned GCPS elementary school in Dacula — seats are assigned by home address in the Fort Daniel attendance zone of the Mill Creek cluster.

  • Grades: K–5
  • How to get in: Zoned by home address
  • Cluster: Mill Creek
  • Area: Dacula
  • Student mix: 77.1 / 100

Fort Daniel Elementary is a zoned elementary school in the Mill Creek cluster; students go on to Osborne Middle School, then Mill Creek High School. Specials rotate through Art, Music, PE, Health and STEM, and the school describes FOCUS gifted services with content and thinking-skills segments. Visit and ask questions before treating any ranking or reputation claim as a fit guarantee.

1725 Auburn Road, Dacula, GA 30019

Official starting points

  • School site: fortdanieles.gcpsk12.org
  • Zoning: GCPS Mill Creek cluster page and GCPS permissive transfers
  • GCPS school profile: gcpsk12.org › School Profiles › Fort Daniel Elementary 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

  • Specials — Art, Music, Physical Education, Health and STEM on a rotating schedule (school Special Areas page).
  • Clubs — Hawk Chorus, Art Club, Robotics Club, Garden Club, Beta Club and Fellowship of Christian Athletes, plus 5th-grade Peer Leaders (GCPS school profile).
  • Gifted (FOCUS) — the school says its FOCUS program offers content-specific and thinking-skills segments for qualifying students (GCPS FOCUS page).

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

Principal

Dr. Barbara M. Tucker

School details

Address
1725 Auburn Road, Dacula, GA 30019
  • School hours: The school lists 7:45 a.m. to 2:45 p.m., with the tardy bell at 8:10 a.m. and classes beginning at 8:15 a.m. The GCPS directory lists 8:15 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. Confirm current arrival procedures directly with Fort Daniel.
  • Source: School site; GCPS directory and school profile. Hours: school site and GCPS directory.

How families get in

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

  • Next step (GCPS Mill Creek cluster page): Osborne Middle School. Confirm your address with GCPS before buying or renting for a 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).

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Who it tends to fit

A good match when

  • You live in the Fort Daniel zone and want your child to move on to Osborne Middle School with neighborhood classmates.
  • Your child would join chorus or robotics.
  • Your child may qualify for gifted services.

Think twice when

  • You want many classes per grade level — the GCPS directory lists about 650 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):

  • White ≈ 27% · Black ≈ 26% · Hispanic ≈ 23% · Asian ≈ 18% · Two or more ≈ 6% · other groups hidden (very small)
  • Total enrollment about 650 students (GCPS directory, rounded)
  • Student mix score: 77.1 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

Auburn Road in Dacula. 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.

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Questions to ask on a tour

  1. 1.How is gifted (FOCUS) service delivered here — resource classes, cluster classes or advanced content?
  2. 2.Which specials (art, music, PE, STEM, computer science, languages) does each grade rotate through?
  3. 3.How does the school help a child who needs extra support in reading or math?
  4. 4.Which before- and after-school care options operate on campus or offer pickup from the school?
  5. 5.How does the school communicate with families (ParentVUE, ParentSquare, newsletters)?

What to do next

  1. 1.Confirm your address is zoned for Fort Daniel Elementary 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 child.
  4. 4.Register through GCPS Online Registration.