Forest Park Elementary School

Forest Park Elementary School, a reasonably sized elementary school in EASTPOINTE, Michigan, run under Eastpointe Community Schools, educates 356 students, covering grades K through 2.

Eastpointe Community Schools comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 2,114 students; Forest Park Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Forest Park Elementary School records that the largest single group is Black, at 77% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 13% White, 6% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

On the resource side, On paper, Forest Park Elementary School has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. Around 85% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Macomb County's rate of about 52%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Macomb County put the typical household earns roughly $77,837 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Macomb County's 236 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,743 students), Forest Park Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Eastpointe Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Forest Park Elementary School's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 363 (now 356). The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 20.9:1 today.

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