Forest Hill Elementary School

Located at 4501 Moffett Rd, in Mobile, Alabama, Forest Hill Elementary School is an average-sized K-5 school that hosts 478 students (grades K through 5), part of Mobile County.

Mobile County runs 85 schools in total, collectively educating 49,946 students. Forest Hill Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Forest Hill Elementary School shows that 89% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest breaks down as 4% White, 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 36% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 88% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Mobile County (around 67%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Forest Hill Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 37.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 35.8%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Mobile County) records that the typical household earns roughly $58,880 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Forest Hill Elementary School is one of 107 public schools in Mobile County (combined enrollment of about 59,070 students).

CL Scarborough Model Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Forest Hill Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 36.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 8%: 518 students in 2018 compared to 478 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 94% to 89% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.