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Enrollment
496
Elementary
DISTRICT 400 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RAPIDES PARISH·NCES 220129001712
Forest Hill Junior High School
15 Hwy 497 Forest Hill, Forest Hill, LA 71430 · (318) 748-6844 · Rapides Parish
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL496 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 74% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Louisiana public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.4:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
87%
431 students
DISTRICT 80% · STATE 70%
Community
5
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 | 39 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 51 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 49 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 58 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 55 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 47 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 52 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 51 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 47 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 47 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (51) is 9% larger than its 8th grade class (47).
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · STATE 65% · 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
Test scores
LEAP 2025 2025-26 . % Mastery+English Language Arts
44.0%
LA avg 41.8% . -8.0pp since 2022
Math
38.0%
LA avg 34.2% . -4.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 34. Reading and writing scores are down about 8 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 4 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 44.0% | 38.0% |
| 2024-25 | 49.0% | 41.0% |
| 2023-24 | 50.0% | 37.0% |
| 2022-23 | 52.0% | 42.0% |
% Mastery+, all students and all tested grades.
Source: LEAP 2025. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of LA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
40.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
21.7%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+18.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 22% typical for Louisiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 19 points, placing it in Louisiana's top 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 Hill Junior High School
Forest Hill Junior High School's state test result (40.3% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forest Hill Junior High School this school | 496 | 86.9% | 40.3% |
| Southside Elementary School Denham Springs | 534 | 89.0% | 34.2% |
| Village East Elementary School Houma | 400 | 88.8% | 34.2% |
| Northside Elementary School Denham Springs | 466 | 78.5% | 37.0% |
| John James Audubon School Kenner | 572 | 74.3% | 26.2% |
| A.C. Alexander School Kenner | 567 | 71.8% | 28.0% |
Matched among Louisiana 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 Hill Junior High School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Rapides Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.3% | #213 of 583 | #13 of 24 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 38.0% | #244 of 582 ▼ 39 | #12 of 24 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.0% | #251 of 587 ▼ 44 | #15 of 24 ▼ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -6.0pp | #119 of 540 | #4 of 23 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 496 | #265 of 714 | #5 of 25 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.4:1 | #214 of 655 | #7 of 24 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.9% | #299 of 655 | #7 of 24 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 86.9% | #173 of 705 | #12 of 25 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +3.3% | #162 of 197 | #7 of 9 |
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
496
+15 (+3%) vs 2020
+36% since 1990-91, when it was 365
Student : Teacher
12.4:1
was 14.6:1
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 | 496 | 39.9 | 12.4:1 | 87% (431) |
| 2023-24 | 515 | 40.4 | 12.7:1 | 83% (425) |
| 2022-23 | 480 | 31.4 | 15.3:1 | 83% (399) |
| 2020-21 | 481 | 33 | 14.6:1 | 28% (136) |
| 2017-18 | 480 | 31 | 15.5:1 | 83% (396) |
| 2015-16 | 403 | 30 | 13.4:1 | 73% (293) |
| 2010-11 | 391 | 34 | 11.5:1 | 68% (264) |
| 2000-01 | 347 | 23 | 15.1:1 | 79% (273) |
| 1990-91 | 365 | 26 | 14.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Forest Hill Junior High School.
Since 2017-18: students up 3% (480 to 496); teachers up 29% (31 to 39.9).
About Forest Hill Junior High School
Forest Hill Junior High School is a mid-sized elementary school based in Forest Hill, Louisiana. It had 496 students in 2024-25, spanning pre-K through 8.
Across its 43 schools, Rapides Parish enrolls 21,340 students. Forest Hill Junior High School is one of those schools.
More than half of the students at Forest Hill Junior High School are Hispanic (59%). The rest of enrollment is 36% White and 3% multiracial. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Rapides Parish's population at about 4%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Forest Hill Junior High School scores 52%.
Its ratio of 12.4:1 is based on 39.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Louisiana is 14.0:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. In all, 87% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Rapides Parish, the average is 77%.
Forest Hill Junior High School holds a B+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 74% of Louisiana public elementary schools.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Forest Hill Junior High School would score about 21.7%. It scores 40.3%, a top-10% result among Louisiana schools on BeatsExpectations.
The school is in Rapides Parish, where the median household earns about $54,967 a year, about 23% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 15%. Forest Hill Junior High School shares Rapides Parish with 50 other public schools.
About 5.2 miles separate Forest Hill Junior High School from the closest public school, Glenmora High School. A ten-mile radius around the school includes 4 other public schools. Local comparison: Forest Hill Junior High School ranks 2nd of 8 nearby schools, at 40.3% versus a 34.1% average.
By NCES locale, the school is Rural: Distant, or in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 3% rise, from 481 to 496. The ratio was 14.6:1 in 2020-21 and 12.4:1 in 2024-25.
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Rapides Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
127,527
Census ACS
Median income
$54,967
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
51
21,481 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Rapides Parish
- Alexandria Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,475 students
- Pineville High SchoolHigh · 1,271 students
- Peabody Magnet High SchoolHigh · 1,071 students
- J.I. Barron Sr. Elementary SchoolElementary · 924 students
- Buckeye High SchoolHigh · 915 students
- Tioga High SchoolHigh · 881 students
Nearby schools
- Glenmora High School5.2 mi · 673
- Carter C. Raymond Junior High School8.5 mi · 124
- Rapides High School8.8 mi · 248
- Caroline Dormon Junior High School9.9 mi · 362
- Oak Hill High School13.9 mi · 715
- Martin Park Elementary School15.5 mi · 281
Frequently asked questions
About Forest Hill Junior High SchoolHow large is Forest Hill Junior High School?
Forest Hill Junior High School enrolls approximately 496 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does Forest Hill Junior High School serve?
Forest Hill Junior High School serves grades PK-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Forest Hill Junior High School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Forest Hill Junior High School is approximately 12.4:1 (40 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Forest Hill Junior High School?
Forest Hill Junior High School reports a student body of 36% White, 59% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Forest Hill Junior High School in?
Forest Hill Junior High School is part of Rapides Parish.
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