FOREST PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

FOREST PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the mid-sized elementary campuss in LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, one of the schools within LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 379 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 40 schools in LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT (22,320 students total), FOREST PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, FOREST PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that White students make up the majority at 65%; the rest comes out to 24% Black, 6% Hispanic, 3% Asian, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Pulaski County as a whole is about 49% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 33% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Pulaski County (around 71%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, FOREST PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the top 10% of Arkansas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 46.5%; actual is 69.8%, +23.3 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Pulaski County put the typical household earns roughly $62,873 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. FOREST PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 133 public schools in Pulaski County (combined enrollment of about 64,124 students).

Nearest neighbor: FOREST HEIGHTS STEM ACADEMY, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FOREST PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), FOREST PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 38.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at FOREST PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has shrank 20%, going from 473 students in 2018 to 379 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 75% to 65%.

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