Woodland Forrest Elementary School

Set in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Woodland Forrest Elementary School is a medium-sized primary school, one of the schools within Tuscaloosa City. It works with 544 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 19 schools in Tuscaloosa City (11,230 students total), Woodland Forrest Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Woodland Forrest Elementary School logs that 77% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school shows 12% White, 7% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 31%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. About 55% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Woodland Forrest Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.9%; this one delivers 33.2%.

In the area at large, census data for Tuscaloosa County shows median household earnings sit near $66,231, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Woodland Forrest Elementary School is one of 58 public schools in Tuscaloosa County (combined enrollment of about 30,508 students).

Nearest neighbor: Paul W Bryant High School, around 1.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Woodland Forrest Elementary School ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 36.8%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Woodland Forrest Elementary School has expanded 4%, going from 523 students in 2018 to 544 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 16% to 12% across the same window.

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