Chesney Elementary, 3878 Old Norcross Road, Duluth: K-5, 1,339 students in 2025, CCRPI 70.1. Duluth Cluster; feeds Duluth Middle and Duluth High.
Last checked Oct. 6, 2026. Sources: the Chesney Elementary website, Gwinnett County Public Schools’ school directory, the City of Duluth’s schools page, Find My School tool, Duluth Cluster page, 2026-27 student calendar, the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement’s 2025 School Grades data and the federal NCES school directory.
Chesney Elementary School is a Gwinnett County Public Schools elementary school on Old Norcross Road, south of the city of Duluth, serving kindergarten through fifth grade. It has a Duluth mailing address and is in the district’s Duluth Cluster. The city’s schools page lists it as Charles Brant Chesney Elementary.
- Address: 3878 Old Norcross Road, Duluth, GA 30096
- Phone: 678-542-2300
- Grades: Kindergarten to 5
- Website: chesneyes.gcpsk12.org
Who to call
- Chesney Elementary front office: 678-542-2300
- 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 Ricardo Quinn, according to the school’s website.
Enrollment and teachers
The state counted 1,339 students at Chesney Elementary in its 2025 School Grades data. The most recent federal figure, from the NCES directory for the 2023-24 school year, is 1,066 students and 79 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 13.5 students per teacher.
State report card
Chesney Elementary’s 2025 CCRPI single score was 70.1, 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 71.1 in 2023, 69.1 in 2024 and 70.1 in 2025. The full report card, with subgroups and the parts of the score, is on the state’s Chesney 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 in grades three to five at each of the two top levels:
| Subject | Proficient | Distinguished |
|---|---|---|
| English language arts | 24.7% | 6.9% |
| Math | 27% | 11.3% |
| Science (fifth grade) | 21.1% | 7.2% |
Attendance zone
Zones are set by Gwinnett County Public Schools and do not follow city limits. Check any address with Find My School. In the analysis behind our neighborhoods guide, which matched Gwinnett County’s address points inside Duluth to the district’s 2026 zone map, fewer than 1% of addresses in the city are zoned for Chesney, in the North Berkeley area off Pleasant Hill Road. Most of its zone is outside the city, around the school.
Chesney students go on to Duluth Middle and then Duluth High, according to the district’s 2026 zone map data and its Duluth Cluster page.
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, said it will not redraw attendance boundaries for the 2027-28 school year, and plans community conversations in the second semester; our schools guide has the details.
Calendar
From the district’s approved 2026-27 student calendar (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; students learn from home
- Nov. 23-27: Thanksgiving break
- Dec. 21 to Jan. 4: winter break; the second semester begins Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2027
- April 5-9, 2027: spring break
- Wednesday, May 26, 2027: last day of school
Bell times
The school information page lists school hours of 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and this bell schedule:
- 8:20 to 8:50 a.m.: arrival
- 8:50 to 9:15 a.m.: schoolwide interventions
- 9:15 a.m. to 3:15 p.m.: instructional block
- 3:15 p.m.: dismissal
The school does not allow student checkouts after 2:50 p.m.
More
- The school’s website
- The district’s directory page for Chesney Elementary
- The state’s report card for Chesney Elementary
- The district’s Duluth Cluster page, which lists every school in the cluster, and its cluster map (PDF)
- Every public school that serves Duluth, with zones and scores: our Duluth public schools guide
- District calendar, registration and the Board of Education: our Duluth schools guide
Frequently asked questions
What grades does Chesney Elementary serve?
Kindergarten through fifth grade, according to the district’s school directory.
What is Chesney Elementary’s CCRPI score?
70.1 in 2025, according to the state’s School Grades data, against a Georgia elementary school average of 78.6. It was 69.1 in 2024.
Which middle and high school does Chesney Elementary feed into?
Duluth Middle and then Duluth High, according to the district’s 2026 zone map data.
What time does Chesney Elementary start?
Arrival is 8:20 to 8:50 a.m. and dismissal is at 3:15 p.m., according to the school’s bell schedule.
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