Forest Elementary School

Forest Elementary School, a mid-sized elementary-level community in FARMINGTON HILLS, Michigan, part of Farmington Public School District, instructs 404 students, covering grades K through 5.

Within Farmington Public School District, which oversees 16 schools and 8,983 students, Forest Elementary School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Forest Elementary School reports that 68% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school logs 19% Black, 6% Asian, 4% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. Compared to Oakland County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 11% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Oakland County (around 32%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Forest Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 61.2%; this one delivers 52.8%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Oakland County indicate median household earnings sit near $97,760, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Forest Elementary School is one of 345 public schools in Oakland County (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students).

Nearest neighbor: North Farmington High School, around 0.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Forest Elementary School comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 52.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 6%: 431 students in 2018 compared to 404 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 10% to 6% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.

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