Forrest Road Elementary School

Forrest Road Elementary School is a tight-knit elementary campus in Columbus, Georgia, one of the schools within Muscogee County. The school instructs 278 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Forrest Road Elementary School sits 54% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 54 schools in Muscogee County (30,091 students total), Forrest Road Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Forrest Road Elementary School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (83%). Beyond that, the school shows 7% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% White. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 47%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Forrest Road Elementary School has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting Forrest Road Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 100% of students at Forrest Road Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Muscogee County's rate of about 86%.

After controlling for student poverty, Forrest Road Elementary 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 14.6%, a residual of -11.1 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Muscogee County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $58,073 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Muscogee County's 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,110 students), Forrest Road Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Fort Middle School, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Forrest Road Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Forrest Road Elementary School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 16.8%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Forrest Road Elementary School has shrank 38%, going from 448 students in 2018 to 278 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 89% to 83% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.