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Gwinnett County Public Schools

Northbrook Middle School

Principal: Dr. Brooks Baggett

1221 Northbrook Parkway, Suwanee, GA 30024

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School Highlights

The following school highlights showcase how Northbrook Middle 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.

  • The 2023-2024 school year marks the 10-year anniversary of Northbrook Middle School. Northbrook Middle celebrated our commitment to excellence and to cultivating high achieving students in a nurturing school environment.
  • Northbrook Middle School offers students the opportunity to engage in a variety of extracurricular activities, including Drama Club, Girls Who Code, Crochet Club, Anime Club, Art Club, Environmental Club, Readers Rally, Robotics, Strategists Club, intramural sports, and Girls on the Run. Members of Girls on the Run competed in the Run of Atlanta 5k and engaged with community volunteers and coaches, helping the girls learn to be joyful, healthy, and confident. The Northbrook Drama Club performed an original play, “Willy Wonka.” The Eco Warriors Environmental Club began installing a pollinator garden and maintained a variety of plants in box gardens.
  • The Northbrook Concert Band earned Superior ratings in performance and Excellent ratings in sight-reading at Large Group Performance Evaluation. Northbrook had one student named to All-State Band and one student was named as an alternate. Four Northbrook students earned spots in the GMEA District 13 Honor Band. The seventh & eighth grade Concert Band, sixth grade Beginner Band, and the Jazz Band all performed at our annual Winter and Spring concerts.
  • The Northbrook Orchestra earned Superior ratings in performance and sight-reading at Large Group Performance Evaluation. Three students were selected for District 13 Honors Orchestra. One orchestra student was selected for All-State Orchestra and advanced to the state level. Sixth, seventh, and eighth grade orchestra students performed at our local Winter and Spring school concerts.
  • The Northbrook Chorus earned Excellent ratings in performance and Superior ratings sight-reading at Large Group Performance Evaluation. Northbrook students participated in the Athens, Georgia, District 13 Honor Chorus event. The Northbrook Chorus performed at the Peachtree Ridge Cluster Concert, and the sixth, seventh, and eighth-grade choirs performed at our annual Winter and Spring concerts.
  • Northbrook students shine in athletics. Student-athletes participated in Cadet Winter Guard, cheerleading, boys and girls basketball, boys and girls soccer, and a wide variety of intramural sports. Our boys basketball teams earned a spot in the Western Division Tournament. Our girls soccer team also earned a post-season berth.
  • Northbrook Middle students participated in quarterly project-based learning (PBL) units. These PBL units included driving questions requiring students to work collaboratively, apply their classroom learning, and develop solutions. Students presented their solutions using technology-infused tools to community stakeholders. Students demonstrated content and skill proficiency and important soft skills such as critical thinking, collaboration, organizational management, and problem-solving.
  • Northbrook shines in STEM. Seven Northbrook students participated in the Gwinnett County Science & Engineering Fair. Northbrook Middle received a grant from the Bosch Community Fund to support STEM instruction and to expand access to STEM experiences for our students. The STEM Exploration lab allows students to explore various STEM kits, from building hydraulic arms and solar cars to exploring how atoms and molecules are made.
  • Northbrook Middle School promotes literacy. Our Media Specialist led schoolwide reading initiatives through reading challenges in the summer, fall, and spring semesters. Participating students earned prizes and recognition for their reading successes. The Media Specialist partnered with language arts, science, and social studies students to provide cross-curricular lessons on research skills. In addition, the Media Specialist partnered with engineering students to develop videos for entry into the Gwinnett County Media Festival.
  • Northbrook students perform beyond the classroom. Two Northbrook students won the GAGE writing competition and were awarded the 2024 Middle School Summer Scholarship. One Northbrook student was selected as the district grade-level winner of the Young Georgia Author Competition. A Northbrook sixth grader finished in second place in the Gwinnett County 4-H Junior Senior District Project Achievement in public speaking competition. Northbrook had three students receive awards for Young Georgia Authors literacy competition. A Northbrook student placed as one of the top 20 spellers for the Scripps Virtual Test. Northbrook sixth grade students finished sixth in the nation and earned
  • Highest Honors in the 2023-2024 WordMasters Challenge, a national vocabulary competition involving nearly 125,000 students annually.

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