Students are admitted through a county-wide lottery, whose participants, since the school dropped its charter status in 2016, must meet multiple requirements.

[4] It features a heavy focus on project-based STEM education.

[5][6] The school was chartered in March 2006 by the Gwinnett County Board of Education through SPLOST and opened in the fall of 2007.

Renovations updated and modernized 18 classrooms and offices, and GSMST moved to its permanent location in 2010 at the geographic center of Gwinnett County, near Sugarloaf Parkway and Old Norcross Road, the former site of Benefield Elementary School.

1 high school in the state of Georgia by U.S. News & World Report for its eleventh consecutive year.