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What's one thing Forest Avenue Elementary School gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
617
Elementary
DISTRICT 448 · STATE 480
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MONTGOMERY COUNTY·NCES 010243001014
Forest Avenue Elementary School
1700 W 5th St, Montgomery, AL 36106 · (334) 269-3673 · Montgomery County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL617 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 99% of Alabama public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Alabama public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.2:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.3:1 · STATE 17.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
26%
158 students
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 58%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 107 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 118 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 114 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 91 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 95 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 92 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (107) is 16% larger than its 5th grade class (92).
Student demographics
72%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 40% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
ACAP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
99.3%
AL avg 52.7%
Math
92.6%
AL avg 31.8%
What this means: On the ACAP, Alabama's statewide test, about 99 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 93 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Alabama schools, those numbers are about 53 and 32.
Source: ACAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of AL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
94.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.3%
based on AL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+29.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 94% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 65% typical for Alabama schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 29 points, placing it in Alabama's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Forest Avenue Elementary School
Forest Avenue Elementary School's state test result (94.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forest Avenue Elementary School this school | 617 | 25.6% | 94.5% |
| Blount Elementary School Montgomery | 359 | 38.2% | 45.0% |
| Pick Elementary School Auburn | 464 | 38.1% | 72.3% |
| South Shades Crest Elementary School Hoover | 534 | 18.2% | N/A |
| Creekside Elementary School Auburn | 458 | 30.6% | 73.2% |
| Deer Valley Elementary School Hoover | 735 | 15.4% | 78.3% |
Matched among Alabama elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Forest Avenue Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Alabama | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 94.5% | #1 of 626 | #1 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 92.6% | #1 of 626 | #1 of 32 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 99.3% | #1 of 626 | #1 of 32 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 617 | #159 of 709 | #5 of 34 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.2:1 | #233 of 655 | #10 of 32 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.5% | #5 of 658 | #1 of 32 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 25.6% | #658 of 696 | #32 of 33 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.7% | #171 of 364 | #13 of 22 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
617
-48 (-7%) vs 2020
-27% since 1990-91, when it was 840
Student : Teacher
16.2:1
was 20.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 617 | 38 | 16.2:1 | 26% (158) |
| 2023-24 | 613 | 39 | 15.7:1 | 17% (105) |
| 2022-23 | 628 | 36 | 17.4:1 | 17% (108) |
| 2020-21 | 665 | 32 | 20.8:1 | 17% (115) |
| 2017-18 | 707 | 39 | 18.1:1 | 17% (122) |
| 2015-16 | 687 | 38 | 18.1:1 | 8% (58) |
| 2010-11 | 705 | 37 | 19.1:1 | 15% (104) |
| 2000-01 | 680 | 41 | 16.6:1 | 28% (191) |
| 1990-91 | 840 | 42 | 20.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Forest Avenue Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (707 to 617); teachers down 3% (39 to 38).
About Forest Avenue Elementary School
Forest Avenue Elementary School is the name of a mid-sized elementary school in Montgomery, Alabama. The school runs kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 617 students. By comparison, elementary schools in Alabama enroll about 480 students on average.
Montgomery County is the local district for Forest Avenue Elementary School. It runs 51 schools with 26,958 students.
Asian students account for 37% of enrollment at Forest Avenue Elementary School, more than any other group. Smaller groups are 31% Black, 23% White, 6% multiracial, and 3% Hispanic. County-wide, 3% of Montgomery County residents are Asian. The diversity index for Forest Avenue Elementary School is 72%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
With 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 16.2:1. Statewide, elementary schools in Alabama average 17.0:1. Roughly 26% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Montgomery County average 67%.
On the allk12 Grade, Forest Avenue Elementary School lands at A+, ahead of 99% of Alabama public elementary schools.
Forest Avenue Elementary School scores 29.1 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results: 94.5% actual versus 65.3% predicted. That puts it in the top 10% of Alabama schools on BeatsExpectations.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Montgomery County show that median household income comes to about $59,386, roughly 35% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Montgomery County counts 60 public schools with about 31,131 students.
Highland Avenue Elementary School sits about 0.8 miles from Forest Avenue Elementary School. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. On state test proficiency, Forest Avenue Elementary School ranks 1st in a group of 7 nearby schools.
NCES describes the area around Forest Avenue Elementary School as City: Mid-size, meaning inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Forest Avenue Elementary School had a net loss of 48 students, or 7%. The number of students per teacher dropped from 20.8 to 16.2 over 4 years.
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Montgomery County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
226,718
Census ACS
Median income
$59,386
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
16%
Below federal line
Schools in county
60
31,131 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Montgomery County
- Johnson Abernathy Graetz High SchoolHigh · 1,587 students
- Carver Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,553 students
- Percy Julian High SchoolHigh · 1,282 students
- Park Crossing High SchoolHigh · 882 students
- Brewbaker Middle SchoolMiddle · 806 students
- Carr Middle SchoolMiddle · 774 students
Other schools in Montgomery
- Johnson Abernathy Graetz High SchoolHigh · 1,587 students
- Carver Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,553 students
- Percy Julian High SchoolHigh · 1,282 students
- Park Crossing High SchoolHigh · 882 students
- Brewbaker Middle SchoolMiddle · 806 students
- Carr Middle SchoolMiddle · 774 students
Other Forest Avenue Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Forest Avenue Elementary. Forest Avenue Elementary School is the largest of the 2.
- Forest Avenue ElementaryHudson, MA · 269 students
Nearby schools
- Highland Avenue Elementary School0.8 mi · 453
- Floyd Middle School1.1 mi · 525
- Baldwin Art And Academics Magnet1.4 mi · 478
- Lanier Senior High School1.4 mi · 517
- Percy Julian High School1.5 mi · 1,282
- Nixon Elementary School1.6 mi · 476
Frequently asked questions
About Forest Avenue Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Forest Avenue Elementary School?
Forest Avenue Elementary School enrolls approximately 617 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Forest Avenue Elementary School serve?
Forest Avenue Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Forest Avenue Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Forest Avenue Elementary School is approximately 16.2:1 (38 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Forest Avenue Elementary School?
At Forest Avenue Elementary School, the student body is approximately 23% White, 3% Hispanic, 31% Black, 37% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Forest Avenue Elementary School public or private?
Forest Avenue Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Montgomery County.
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