The number of impoverished children in Gwinnett County has more than doubled since 2006, according to statistics compiled by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Over the same time period, the county's student population increased by just 23 percent.
According to the statistics, which draw from the U.S. Census Bureau and Georgia Department of Education, just over 14,500 Gwinnett County children were classified as being in poverty in 2006. In 2014, that number was more than 32,600.
The county had about 147,300 students in 2006 and about 181,200 in 2014.
Gwinnett County's school population has also seen a sizable demographic shift in recent years.
In 1995, 80 percent of Gwinnett County Public Schools students were white. By 2015, that number dropped to just 26 percent, according to data from the Atlanta Regional Commission.
Over the same time period, the school system's share of Hispanic students increased sevenfold — from 4 percent to 29 percent — and the proportion of black students more than tripled, from 9 percent to 31 percent.
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