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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the FOREST HILL COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL administration to hear?
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Enrollment
1,923
High
DISTRICT 1,228 · STATE 1,035
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PALM BEACH·NCES 120150001507
FOREST HILL COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL
6901 PARKER AVE, WEST PALM BEACH, FL 33405 · (561) 540-2400 · Palm Beach County
GRADES 09–12HIGH12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,923 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 30% of Florida public high schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+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 Florida public high schools
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
109 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.3:1 · STATE 23.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
57%
1,091 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 458 | 24% |
| Grade 10 | 463 | 24% |
| Grade 11 | 519 | 27% |
| Grade 12 | 483 | 25% |
Student demographics
40%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 70% · 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
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
48.0%
FL avg 56.7% . +3.0pp since 2023
Math
32.0%
FL avg 58.9% . +8.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 48.0% | 32.0% |
| 2023-24 | 45.0% | 24.0% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
44.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.7%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 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 HILL COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL
FOREST HILL COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (44.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| FOREST HILL COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL this school | 1,923 | 56.7% | 44.1% |
| LETO HIGH SCHOOL TAMPA | 1,995 | 56.8% | 45.3% |
| EAST LEE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL LEHIGH ACRES | 2,129 | 56.5% | 28.6% |
| HIALEAH-MIAMI LAKES SENIOR HIGH HIALEAH | 1,367 | 56.5% | 34.6% |
| JOHN I. LEONARD HIGH SCHOOL GREENACRES | 3,262 | 55.4% | 42.3% |
| OSCEOLA HIGH SCHOOL KISSIMMEE | 2,345 | 50.9% | 43.4% |
Matched among Florida high 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 HILL COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Palm Beach County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.1% | #420 of 555 | #23 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.0% | #390 of 549 ▲ 33 | #23 of 32 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 48.0% | #392 of 559 ▼ 16 | #25 of 32 ▼ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,923 | #186 of 830 | #18 of 48 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.6:1 | #73 of 575 | #8 of 32 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 39.7% | #492 of 594 | #30 of 32 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 56.7% | #143 of 630 | #10 of 38 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.8% | #54 of 289 | #1 of 18 |
Ranked against other public high 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
1,923
-614 (-24%) vs 2020
+37% since 1990-91, when it was 1,405
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
was 19.8:1
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 | 1,923 | 109 | 17.6:1 | 57% (1,091) |
| 2023-24 | 2,108 | 116.5 | 18.1:1 | 64% (1,356) |
| 2022-23 | 2,407 | 121.5 | 19.8:1 | 66% (1,589) |
| 2020-21 | 2,537 | 128 | 19.8:1 | 82% (2,083) |
| 2017-18 | 2,460 | 141 | 17.4:1 | 78% (1,928) |
| 2015-16 | 2,304 | 134 | 17.2:1 | 83% (1,904) |
| 2010-11 | 1,853 | 109 | 17.0:1 | 63% (1,164) |
| 2000-01 | 1,581 | 82 | 19.3:1 | 37% (580) |
| 1990-91 | 1,405 | 91 | 15.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for FOREST HILL COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL.
About FOREST HILL COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL
WEST PALM BEACH, Florida, is home to FOREST HILL COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL, a large high school. It is open to students in grades 9 through 12 and enrolls 1,923 students. By comparison, high schools in Florida enroll about 1,035 students on average.
PALM BEACH is the local district for FOREST HILL COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL. It runs 233 schools with 191,505 students.
Hispanic students are 76% of those enrolled at FOREST HILL COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL. Beyond that, enrollment is 11% Black and 10% White. In Palm Beach County overall, about 24% of residents are Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 40, compared with 70 nationally.
Based on 109 full-time-equivalent teachers, FOREST HILL COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL has a ratio of 17.6:1. The average for high schools in Florida, 23.5:1, is higher. Income data for the school show 57% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Among public schools in Palm Beach County, the average eligibility rate is 45%.
On the allk12 Grade, FOREST HILL COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL lands at C, ahead of 30% of Florida public high schools.
In Florida, FOREST HILL COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 44.1% actual against a predicted 52.7%.
Palm Beach County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $83,581, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 41%, and roughly 8% of residents are in poverty. There are 245 public schools in the county, enrolling about 192,831, FOREST HILL COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL among them.
FOREST HILL COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL's closest public school neighbor is PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 0.5 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. FOREST HILL COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL ranks 7th of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 44.1% against a local average of 51.0%.
The federal government classifies FOREST HILL COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL's location as City: Mid-size.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 1,923, compared with 2,537 in 2020-21. Students per teacher dropped from 19.8 in 2020-21 to 17.6 in 2024-25.
The allk12 page for FOREST HILL COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Palm Beach County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,533,806
Census ACS
Median income
$83,581
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
41%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
245
192,831 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PALM BEACH
- JOHN I. LEONARD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,262 students
- JUPITER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,122 students
- PARK VISTA COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,881 students
- BOCA RATON COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,819 students
- PALM BEACH LAKES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,809 students
- PALM BEACH CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,760 students
Other schools in WEST PALM BEACH
- PALM BEACH LAKES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,809 students
- WILLIAM T. DWYER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,163 students
- PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,397 students
- ALEXANDER W DREYFOOS JUNIOR SCHOOL OF THE ARTSHigh · 1,352 students
- BAK MIDDLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTSMiddle · 1,246 students
- CONNISTON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,153 students
Nearby schools
- PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.5 mi · 508
- SOUTH OLIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 504
- RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT SUMMIT1.0 mi · 985
- MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 813
- G-STAR SCHOOL OF THE ARTS1.3 mi · 710
- SPORTS LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT (SLAM) MIDDLE SCHOOL PALM1.5 mi · 324
Frequently asked questions
About FOREST HILL COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOLHow large is FOREST HILL COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL?
FOREST HILL COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,923 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does FOREST HILL COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL serve?
FOREST HILL COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL serves grades 09-12.
How many teachers does FOREST HILL COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL have?
FOREST HILL COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL employs 109 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.6:1.
What is the student diversity at FOREST HILL COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL?
Student demographics at FOREST HILL COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL are roughly 10% White, 76% Hispanic, 11% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is FOREST HILL COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL in?
FOREST HILL COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL is part of PALM BEACH.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.