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How has FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
731
Elementary
DISTRICT 600 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HILLSBOROUGH·NCES 120087000910
FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
10112 N OLA AVE, TAMPA, FL 33612 · (813) 975-7633 · Hillsborough County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL731 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
75%
545 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 47 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 107 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 108 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 117 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 139 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 114 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 99 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (107) is 8% larger than its 5th grade class (99).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→MEMORIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL
Based on published attendance-zone data from HILLSBOROUGH. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
39.0%
FL avg 56.7% . +12.7pp since 2023
Math
49.9%
FL avg 58.9% . +2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 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 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.0% | 49.9% |
| 2023-24 | 26.3% | 47.9% |
% 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
38.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.8%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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 HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (38.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 731 | 74.6% | 38.4% |
| ALTA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HAINES CITY | 780 | 70.9% | 34.6% |
| ROBERT H. PRINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BRADENTON | 721 | 74.6% | 41.1% |
| EASTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HAINES CITY | 725 | 77.0% | 40.0% |
| RUSKIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL RUSKIN | 838 | 71.5% | 31.2% |
| KOA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KISSIMMEE | 714 | 68.8% | 36.2% |
Matched among Florida elementary 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 HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Hillsborough County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.4% | #1,876 of 2,136 | #126 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.9% | #1,572 of 2,149 ▼ 78 | #100 of 176 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.0% | #1,808 of 2,149 ▲ 269 | #121 of 176 ▲ 39 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 731 | #617 of 2,267 | #55 of 182 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.8:1 | #614 of 2,077 | #45 of 164 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.2% | #1,076 of 2,108 | #110 of 169 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 74.6% | #292 of 2,188 | #25 of 174 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.3% | #564 of 1,374 | #52 of 124 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
731
+100 (+16%) vs 2020
-21% since 1990-91, when it was 925
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
was 12.1:1
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 | 731 | 49.4 | 14.8:1 | 75% (545) |
| 2023-24 | 689 | 52 | 13.3:1 | 77% (529) |
| 2022-23 | 723 | 48.5 | 14.9:1 | 79% (572) |
| 2020-21 | 631 | 52 | 12.1:1 | 94% (592) |
| 2017-18 | 895 | 76 | 11.8:1 | 94% (841) |
| 2015-16 | 1,067 | 78 | 13.7:1 | 92% (983) |
| 2010-11 | 936 | 73 | 12.8:1 | 88% (820) |
| 2000-01 | 993 | 62 | 16.0:1 | 68% (680) |
| 1990-91 | 925 | 54 | 17.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public mid-sized elementary school in TAMPA, Florida. It had 731 students in 2024-25, spanning pre-K through 5. By comparison, elementary schools in Florida enroll about 604 students on average.
FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one school in HILLSBOROUGH, a system of 300 schools with 221,318 students.
Federal enrollment data show FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 61% Hispanic. The next largest groups are 24% Black, 11% White, and 2% multiracial. The school's Hispanic share is 30 points above the 30% share among Hillsborough County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 56%.
Its ratio of 14.8:1 is based on 49.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, elementary schools in Florida average 17.5:1. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 75%. Across public schools in Hillsborough County, the average is 43%.
Compared with Florida schools that have similar shares of low-income students, FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's results are 5.4 points below predicted: 38.4% against 43.8%.
The school is in Hillsborough County, where median household income comes to about $79,540, roughly 38% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Hillsborough County's 320 public schools enroll about 223,193 students and include FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
ADAMS MIDDLE SCHOOL, less than a tenth of a mile away, is the closest public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 8 closest schools with test data, this one included, FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 4th on average proficiency.
NCES assigns FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL the locale City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
A 16% rise took enrollment from 631 in 2020-21 to 731 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio increased from 12.1:1 in 2020-21 to 14.8:1 in 2024-25.
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Hillsborough County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,522,748
Census ACS
Median income
$79,540
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
320
223,193 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in HILLSBOROUGH
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- ALONSO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,863 students
- PLANT CITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,572 students
- LENNARD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,553 students
Other schools in TAMPA
- ALONSO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,863 students
- SICKLES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,398 students
- PLANT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,391 students
- TAMPA BAY TECH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,181 students
- WHARTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,130 students
- GAITHER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,040 students
Other Forest Hills Elementary schools
7 other US public schools in 7 states are named Forest Hills Elementary. FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 8.
- FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLCORAL SPRINGS, FL · 624 students
- Forest Hills Elementary SchoolSidman, PA · 994 students
- FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARYEDEN PRAIRIE, MN · 603 students
- Forest Hills ElementaryWalterboro, SC · 472 students
- Forest Hills Elementary SchoolLake Oswego, OR · 389 students
Nearby schools
- ADAMS MIDDLE SCHOOL0.1 mi · 533
- LEGACY PREPARATORY ACADEMY0.4 mi · 102
- CHAMBERLAIN HIGH SCHOOL0.6 mi · 1,183
- BROOKS DEBARTOLO COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 624
- IDEA VICTORY1.0 mi · 1,316
- HOSPITAL/HOMEBOUND/HOMEBASED PROGRAMS1.2 mi · 168
Frequently asked questions
About FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 731 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 14.8:1 (49 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 11% White, 61% Hispanic, 24% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of HILLSBOROUGH.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.