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Does Forest School have enough mental health and stress support?
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Enrollment
460
Combined
DISTRICT 494 · STATE 527
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WEST CARROLL PARISH·NCES 220195001469
Forest School
158 Clover Street, Forest, LA 71242 · (318) 428-3672 · West Carroll Parish
GRADES PK–12COMBINED43-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL460 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.4:1 · STATE 52.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
80%
368 students
DISTRICT 75% · STATE 70%
Community
3
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other combined schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. 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 2023-24 . % Mastery+English Language Arts
29.0%
LA avg 41.8% . -2.0pp since 2022
Math
17.0%
LA avg 32.1% . +0.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 32. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2022, while math scores have held steady.
Source: LEAP 2025. 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
21.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.9%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 21% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 27% typical for Louisiana 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 Louisiana'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 →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
460
-87 (-16%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
was 17.8:1
% White
75%
was 83%
% Hispanic
5%
was 6%
% Black
17%
was 10%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About Forest School
Forest School is an unified-grade school of middle-of-the-pack scale in Forest, Louisiana, one of the schools within West Carroll Parish, enrolling 460 students in grades pre-K through 12.
West Carroll Parish runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,483 students. Forest School is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, Forest School lists that the largest single group is White, at 75% of enrollment; the rest looks like 17% Black, 5% Hispanic, 2% multiracial.
On the resource side, On paper, Forest School has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 52.1:1 average. About 80% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Forest School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.9%, the actual is 21.3%, a residual of -5.5 points.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (West Carroll Parish) logs that the typical household earns roughly $49,134 per year, roughly 15% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Forest School is one of 5 public schools in West Carroll Parish (combined enrollment of about 1,483 students).
The closest other public school is Oak Grove Elementary School, roughly 4.6 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Forest School comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 34.0%.
Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 16%: 547 students in 2018 compared to 460 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 83% to 75%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.
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West Carroll Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
9,464
Census ACS
Median income
$49,134
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
15%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
5
1,483 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in West Carroll Parish
- Oak Grove Elementary SchoolElementary · 523 students
- Oak Grove High SchoolHigh · 500 students
- Epps SchoolCombined
- Kilbourne High SchoolCombined
Nearby schools
- Oak Grove Elementary School4.6 mi · 523
- Oak Grove High School4.8 mi · 500
- Griffin Middle School Academy13.1 mi · 163
- Southside Elementary School13.1 mi · 359
- General Trass High School13.5 mi · 214
- EUDORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL23.2 mi · 83
Frequently asked questions
About Forest SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Forest School?
Forest School enrolls approximately 460 students in grades PK-12.
What grades does Forest School serve?
Forest School serves grades PK-12.
How many students per teacher at Forest School?
Approximately 14.3:1 students per teacher at Forest School.
How diverse is Forest School?
Forest School reports a student body of 75% White, 5% Hispanic, 17% Black, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Forest School?
Forest School is overseen by West Carroll Parish in West Carroll Parish.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.