Annistown Elementary School
Principal: Gwenda Nimmo-Smith
3150 Spain Road, Snellville, GA, 30039
Board District IV
School Highlights
The following school highlights showcase how Annistown Elementary School is fulfilling Gwinnett County Public School's four strategic priorities of Empathy, Equity, Effectiveness, and Excellence. Visit the School Profile Dashboard to find more detailed data on our school.
- Annistown Elementary continues to strengthen its dual language immersion program by providing students with opportunities to develop bilingualism, biliteracy, and cross-cultural competencies in both English and Spanish.
- Annistown Elementary is a Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) school. PBIS promotes positive behaviors by recognizing students who demonstrate appropriate conduct at school. Each semester, students are acknowledged for maintaining high academic achievement and showing improvement. Additionally, we recognize students from each class through the PRIDE award for consistently upholding PRIDE expectations.
- All students at Annistown Elementary participate in Computer Science as part of the school's specials rotation. Through engaging, hands-on learning experiences, students develop computational thinking, problem-solving, coding, and digital citizenship skills while building a strong foundation for future learning in computer science and technology.
- Annistown Elementary provides students with a variety of enrichment and intervention opportunities through programs offered during the school day, as well as before and after school. Interventions include the Early Intervention Program (EIP) and English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) services. Enrichment includes Accelerated Math and Extended Learning opportunities.
- Annistown Elementary continues to engage parents in our Parent Prep Academy, a monthly learning series aimed at empowering families with tools and strategies in math and language arts, enabling parents to support their child’s academic success at home with confidence.
- Annistown Elementary provides students with authentic leadership and communication opportunities through its student-led podcast, The Voice of A-Town. Students collaborate to develop topics, conduct interviews with school leaders, staff, and guests, and facilitate meaningful discussions that amplify student voice while promoting leadership, empathy, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Annistown Elementary continues to celebrate student growth and develop the whole child by recognizing academic achievement, attendance, character, and leadership through schoolwide celebrations and incentive programs while providing a diverse array of extracurricular clubs, leadership opportunities, and enrichment activities. Students participate in programs such as Art Club, Peer Leaders, Robotics Club, STEM Club, Student Safety Patrols, Soccer Club, Basketball Club, Readers Rally, and Chorus. Annistown's Chorus proudly represented the school through special performances at the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center during the winter holiday season and at a variety of community and sporting events throughout the year. This year, Annistown also launched its inaugural Annistown's Got Talent showcase, providing students in kindergarten through fifth grade with an opportunity to demonstrate and celebrate their unique talents in a schoolwide performance.
- Annistown Elementary expanded student wellness and outdoor learning opportunities through the addition of new playground swings and an outdoor seating area, made possible through a generous grant from Walton EMC.
- Annistown Elementary continues to provide a comprehensive system of academic and social-emotional support through Generals Target Time and Generals P.R.I.D.E. Time. Generals Target Time provides all students with targeted intervention, enrichment, and acceleration based on individual learning needs and ongoing assessment data, while Generals P.R.I.D.E. Time fosters a culture of belonging through daily Character Strong lessons and explicit instruction aligned to the school's core values of being Prepared, Respectful, demonstrating Integrity, being Disciplined, and remaining Engaged.
- Annistown Elementary's Title I Program strengthens family engagement through a comprehensive Parent Center and a variety of family learning opportunities that support student success. The Parent Center partners with families to enhance students' academic achievement by providing workshops, resources, and strategies to support reading, mathematics, writing, and homework at home. Through the Parent Center, Annistown also offers Play 2 Learn classes that equip families with strategies to develop children's communication, language and literacy, cognitive, social-emotional, motor, and school readiness skills. In addition, Annistown hosts engaging Title I family events, including Family Luncheons, STEM Night, Literacy Night, and GMAS Parent Night, further strengthening the partnership between home and school while empowering families to support student learning.