Forest Avenue Elementary School

Forest Avenue Elementary School operates as a mid-sized elementary school in Montgomery, Alabama, overseen by Montgomery County. Current enrollment sits at 617 students spanning grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 480 students per school, that is 29% larger than typical.

Montgomery County comprises 51 schools with combined enrollment of 26,958 students; Forest Avenue Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, Forest Avenue Elementary School logs that 37% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 31% Black, 23% White, 6% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 3% Asian, so the school skews considerably more Asian than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Forest Avenue Elementary School lists 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Forest Avenue Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 26% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Montgomery County's rate of about 67%.

After controlling for student poverty, Forest Avenue Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Alabama public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 65.3%; Forest Avenue Elementary School posts 94.5%, +29.1 points above that line.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Montgomery County put median household earnings sit near $59,386, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Forest Avenue Elementary School is one of 60 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 31,131 students).

Highland Avenue Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Forest Avenue Elementary School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 39.2%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 13%: 707 students in 2018 compared to 617 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 36% to 23% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 in 2025.

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