Forest Park Middle School

Forest Park Middle School is one of the low-enrollment intermediate schools in Marrow, Georgia, run under Clayton County, with 593 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 22% below the state mean of about 763.

Forest Park Middle School is one of 68 schools operated by Clayton County, a district that educates 51,326 students overall.

On demographics, Forest Park Middle School lists that the largest single group is Black at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 46% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Clayton County as a whole is about 69% Black, so the school skews visibly less Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Forest Park Middle School has 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.1:1 average. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Forest Park Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.7%, the actual is 15.0%, a residual of -10.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Clayton County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $59,806 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Clayton County's 73 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,156 students), Forest Park Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Utopian Academy for the Arts High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Forest Park Middle School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 23.2%.

Forest Park Middle School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Forest Park Middle School has decreased 17%, going from 716 students in 2018 to 593 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 40% to 46%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 today.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.