Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
| The Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science and Technology | |
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| Location | |
| 970 McElvaney Lane Lawrenceville, Georgia 30044 United States |
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| Coordinates | 34°00′36″N 84°08′39″W / 34.010064°N 84.144117°WCoordinates: 34°00′36″N 84°08′39″W / 34.010064°N 84.144117°W |
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| Type | Special public (formerly charter public) |
| Motto | Infinite Possibilities |
| Opened | 2007 |
| School district | Gwinnett County Public Schools |
| Principal | I.V. Bray |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 945 |
| Campus type | Suburban |
| Color(s) | Gray and blue |
| Website | gsmst |
The Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (GSMST) is a public special school in Lawrenceville, Georgia, United States. Students are admitted through a county-wide lottery, whose participants, since the school dropped its charter status in 2016, must meet certain requirements. It features a heavy focus on project-based STEM education. Its rigorous course and high student graduation rate make it one of the most prestigious high schools in the state.
GSMST is notable for its focus on technology. Through a contract with Lenovo, every student is assigned a laptop with pre-installed software such as , Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Premiere Pro. Teachers and students have access to school-wide SMART boards and overhead LCD projectors.
The school was chartered in March 2006 by the Gwinnett County Board of Education through SPLOST and opened in the fall of 2007. It was temporarily housed on the Duluth High School campus, Building 100 began in 2007 as a separate school from Duluth High School. Renovations updated and modernized 18 classrooms and offices, and GSMST moved to its permanent location in 2010 to the geographic center of Gwinnett County, near Sugarloaf Parkway and Old Norcross Road, the former site of Benefield Elementary School. The new building is designed for a maximum of 1,200 students. The school is located beside another high school, Maxwell High School of Technology.
In 2016, GSMST was awarded the Blue Ribbon Award.
The school offers high-level courses that challenge students. Freshman coursework includes Honors and Gifted Chemistry, Honors and Gifted Physics, Accelerated Integrated Geometry, Accelerated Integrated Precalculus, Honors and Gifted Language Arts, Fundamentals of Engineering I, Foreign Language (Chinese I, German I, Spanish I, and Spanish II), and one elective class. Some of these courses are taught on a block schedule, allowing students to earn up to nine Carnegie units in ninth grade. The main focus of the school is mathematics, science, and technology, but other subjects are also taught at the highest levels available. Each course is designed to integrate content from other courses into its own lessons to demonstrate the history and practical applications of each course.
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