Forest Park High

Forest Park High is a mid-sized 9-12 campus in Baltimore, Maryland, overseen by Baltimore City Public Schools. The school enrolls 1,024 students in grades 9 through 12.

Forest Park High is one of 152 schools operated by Baltimore City Public Schools, a district that caters to 76,946 students overall.

Demographically, Forest Park High logs that 78% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school logs 19% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 59% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.3:1, putting Forest Park High higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 75% of students at Forest Park High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Forest Park High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.8%, the actual is 21.4%, a residual of -8.4 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Baltimore city put median household income runs about $62,177, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Forest Park High is one of 156 public schools in Baltimore city (combined enrollment of about 77,341 students).

The closest other public school is Calvin M. Rodwell Elementary/Middle, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Forest Park High comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 25.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 64%: 623 students in 2018 compared to 1,024 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 12% to 19% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 in 2025.

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