Forest Elementary School

Located at 19400 HAMPTON ST, in RIVERVIEW, Michigan, Forest Elementary School is a mid-tier primary school that caters to 395 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by Riverview Community School District.

Riverview Community School District comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 2,743 students; Forest Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Forest Elementary School logs that nearly all students (80%) are White; the rest breaks down as 9% Black, 6% Hispanic, 3% Asian. By comparison, Wayne County as a whole is about 49% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. Roughly 37% of students at Forest Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Wayne County's rate of about 66%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Forest Elementary School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 49.8%; actual is 32.2%, a gap of -17.6 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Wayne County shows median household earnings sit near $60,539, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Forest Elementary School is one of 573 public schools in Wayne County (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students).

The closest other public school is Memorial Elementary School, roughly 0.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Forest Elementary School comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 36.6%.

Forest Elementary School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Forest Elementary School has fell 15%, going from 466 students in 2018 to 395 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 85% to 80% over that span.

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