Forest Hill Elementary School

As a moderately sized elementary-level community in Shreveport, Louisiana, Forest Hill Elementary School instructs 479 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within Caddo Parish.

Forest Hill Elementary School is one of 57 schools operated by Caddo Parish, a district that works with 32,649 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Forest Hill Elementary School lists that nearly all students (81%) are Black. The remainder looks like 8% White, 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Caddo Parish as a whole is about 49% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Forest Hill Elementary School has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.6:1. The state averages about 14.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 78% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Caddo Parish runs at roughly 68%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Forest Hill Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 28.1%; this one delivers 20.7%.

In the area at large, Caddo Parish reports that the typical household earns roughly $50,705 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 18%. Across Caddo Parish's 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,851 students), Forest Hill Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Ridgewood Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Forest Hill Elementary School at 1st of 6; the average score across the group is 12.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Forest Hill Elementary School has fell 17%, going from 576 students in 2018 to 479 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 21% to 8% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 21.2:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.

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