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FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Located at 3100 NW 85TH AVE, in CORAL SPRINGS, Florida, FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary-level community that teaches 624 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under BROWARD.
FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 325 schools operated by BROWARD, a district that hosts 243,591 students overall.
In terms of who attends, FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that 41% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 40% Black, 13% White, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Broward County as a whole is about 33% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 41% of students at FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
With demographic context factored in, FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.5%, the actual is 63.6%, a residual of +3.1 points.
Across the wider county, Broward County reports that median household earnings sit near $77,633, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 338 public schools in Broward County (combined enrollment of about 244,502 students).
Nearest neighbor: CORAL SPRINGS CHARTER SCHOOL, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 57.3%.
The school occupies a suburban site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has contracted 14%, going from 729 students in 2018 to 624 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 in 2025.
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