Forest View Elementary School

As a small elementary campus in BOON, Michigan, Forest View Elementary School works with 257 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within Cadillac Area Public Schools. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Forest View Elementary School sits 30% below that benchmark.

Across the 6 schools in Cadillac Area Public Schools (3,050 students total), Forest View Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Forest View Elementary School lists that nearly all students (90%) are White. Beyond that, the school shows 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. An estimated 50% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Wexford County (around 63%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Forest View Elementary School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 44.2%; this one delivers 57.8%, a residual of +13.6 points.

In the broader community, Wexford County reports that the typical household earns roughly $61,085 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Wexford County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,553 students), of which Forest View Elementary School is one.

Cadillac Innovation High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 8.4 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Forest View Elementary School comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 40.5%.

Forest View Elementary School operates from a countryside location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Forest View Elementary School has remained close to its prior level, going from 251 students in 2018 to 257 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 19.0:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 today.

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