Mission:
The mission of the Level Creek Elementary Community is to ensure a learning environment that fosters high academic expectations in order to inspire all individuals to reach their full potential as life long learners and compassionate citizens.

History:The Level Creek community has been here for a long, long time. Native Americans and pioneer settlers used to live where your school is now. There are records and writings that describe what life was like when this was a rural settlement on the Gwinnett County frontier. Two hundred years ago, this was forest land. Native Americans lived here and had a village in what is Old Town Suwanee today.

In 1818, Gwinnett County was formed by the Georgia General Assembly from lands ceded by the Indians after the War of 1812. Families from other counties and states were given land here and began to move into the new area to build their homes and farms. Their neighbors were the Cherokee Indians, who continued to live here until they were forced to move away during the “Trail of Tears” in 1838.

The Level Creek Methodist Church was established in 1823 and was named after the nearby creek. The church was organized in the Phillip Lamar schoolhouse and was the center of the frontier community's life. Every gathering was a social event; the new arrivals met their neighbors and enjoyed meals of “corn-pone and hog meat, fried chicken and venison ham.” Since most of the settlers did not have a formal education, spelling was taught and spelling bees were held for young and old at the church's Sunday School.

Jones Douglas, one of the first settlers and founders of the church, is buried not far from the new Level Creek Elementary School site. Lucretia Douglas, one of his daughters, kept a diary for many years and wrote the following about meeting the school master:

“When I was four and a half years old, a school teacher by the name of Weems came to our house to get father to subscribe to his school and asked how many he could send. Father replied that he could send five or six, and pointing to me, said: “Would you have the like of that?” “Yes,” he said, “That is a good size, and if she does not mind me I may pull off my big nose and throw it at her.” I looked and sure enough it was a big one. And what a good time we little girls did have learning and playing. I can never forget how sister Lexie and I and our playmates used to learn our lessons and build play houses, and then run home and get June apples and grapes and plums and cherries.”

A description of the Level Creek Schoolhouse in 1923 gives us a glimpse of the outside (“condition fair, water from spring, ample playgrounds, no garden, one toilet in fair condition”) and the inside (“value $1,000.00, two rooms, no cloak room, poorly lighted, ventilation bad, clean, painted”) of a rural schoolhouse of that time. The schoolroom equipment consisted of “double patent desks, plenty of good blackboard; three maps, no charts, a globe, some pictures, no library, some magazines.” There were two teachers and seven grades, with 49 enrolled and 37 present.