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Enrollment
464
Elementary
DISTRICT 356 · STATE 344
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROBBINSDALE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 273178001321
FOREST ELEMENTARY
6800 47TH AVE N, CRYSTAL, MN 55428 · (763) 504-7900 · Hennepin County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL464 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 15% of Minnesota public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Minnesota public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
68%
315 students
DISTRICT 62% · STATE 48%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 50 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 64 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 71 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 60 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 71 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 73 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 75 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (64) is 15% smaller than its 5th grade class (75).
Student demographics
76%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · STATE 60% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsEnglish Language Arts
34.7%
MN avg 49.7%
Math
20.0%
MN avg 45.3%
What this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 20 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
Source: MCA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
25.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
28.6%
based on MN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 29% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Minnesota's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like FOREST ELEMENTARY
FOREST ELEMENTARY's state test result (25.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| FOREST ELEMENTARY this school | 464 | 67.9% | 25.4% |
| Marcy Elementary MINNEAPOLIS | 415 | 68.9% | 24.5% |
| Hayes Elementary FRIDLEY | 432 | 63.9% | 31.7% |
| Pillsbury Elementary MINNEAPOLIS | 439 | 72.4% | 17.5% |
| Stevenson Elementary FRIDLEY | 459 | 70.6% | 31.9% |
| Gage Elementary School ROCHESTER | 412 | 73.3% | 15.3% |
Matched among Minnesota elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where FOREST ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Minnesota | In Hennepin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.4% | #714 of 844 | #116 of 169 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.0% | #751 of 844 | #129 of 169 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.7% | #651 of 844 | #103 of 169 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 464 | #359 of 1,130 | #85 of 206 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.0:1 | #537 of 769 | #104 of 164 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 75.9% | #21 of 796 | #6 of 165 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 67.9% | #176 of 942 | #64 of 183 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -27.8% | #80 of 499 | #24 of 99 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
464
-71 (-13%) vs 2020
-4% since 1990-91, when it was 483
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
was 17.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 464 | 31 | 15.0:1 | 68% (315) |
| 2023-24 | 454 | 28.4 | 16.0:1 | 76% (345) |
| 2022-23 | 453 | 28.1 | 16.1:1 | 73% (329) |
| 2020-21 | 535 | 30 | 17.8:1 | 56% (300) |
| 2017-18 | 643 | 35 | 18.4:1 | 64% (409) |
| 2015-16 | 565 | 37 | 15.3:1 | 61% (344) |
| 2010-11 | 651 | 37 | 17.6:1 | 54% (349) |
| 2000-01 | 444 | 27 | 16.4:1 | 27% (121) |
| 1990-91 | 483 | 36 | 13.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for FOREST ELEMENTARY.
Since 2017-18: students down 28% (643 to 464); teachers down 12% (35 to 31).
About FOREST ELEMENTARY
FOREST ELEMENTARY is a medium-sized elementary school in ROBBINSDALE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, located in CRYSTAL, Minnesota. The student body numbers 464 students, from pre-K through 5. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Minnesota) has about 344 students.
Enrollment across the 25 schools in ROBBINSDALE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT totals 10,821 students.
FOREST ELEMENTARY's enrollment has no majority group, and Black students are the largest at 34%. After that, the student body is 25% White, 19% Hispanic, 16% multiracial, and 5% Asian. Among all residents of Hennepin County, the Black share is about 13%. FOREST ELEMENTARY has a diversity index of 76%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The school has about 15.0 students per teacher and 31 full-time-equivalent teachers. That ratio is over the 13.7:1 average for elementary schools in Minnesota. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 68%. For comparison, public schools in Hennepin County average 43%.
FOREST ELEMENTARY is graded C- by allk12, scoring above 15% of Minnesota public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
A school with FOREST ELEMENTARY's lunch-eligibility share in Minnesota is predicted to score 28.6%. FOREST ELEMENTARY scores 25.4%, 3.1 points below that line.
Census estimates describe Hennepin County this way: median household income is about $97,653, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 54% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 5%. Federal data list 496 public schools in Hennepin County, with a combined enrollment of about 177,509.
The closest public school to FOREST ELEMENTARY is ADULT ACADEMICS, about 0.8 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The nearest schools with test data average 23.4%, lower than FOREST ELEMENTARY's 25.4%.
Under the NCES locale system, FOREST ELEMENTARY is Suburb: Large.
The student count in 2024-25 was 464, 13% below the 535 of 2020-21. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 15.0:1, from 17.8:1.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss science fairs, picture day, and bus routes at FOREST ELEMENTARY. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Hennepin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,269,496
Census ACS
Median income
$97,653
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
54%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
496
177,509 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ROBBINSDALE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
- ROBBINSDALE ARMSTRONG SENIOR HIGHHigh · 1,840 students
- ROBBINSDALE COOPER SENIOR HIGHHigh · 1,396 students
- PLYMOUTH MIDDLEMiddle · 749 students
- Robbinsdale Spanish Immersion El.Elementary · 733 students
- ROBBINSDALE MIDDLEMiddle · 567 students
- MEADOW LAKE ELEMENTARYElementary · 488 students
Other schools in CRYSTAL
- BEACON ACADEMYElementary · 524 students
- The FAIR School - CrystalMiddle · 439 students
- NEILL ELEMENTARYElementary · 359 students
- ROBBINSDALE TRANSITION CENTERHigh · 49 students
- ADULT ACADEMICSHigh · 1 students
Other Forest Elementary schools
7 other US public schools in 7 states are named Forest Elementary. FOREST ELEMENTARY is the 4th largest of the 8.
- Forest ElementaryFOREST, MS · 740 students
- Forest Elementary SchoolDes Plaines, IL · 658 students
- FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWILLIAMSVILLE, NY · 515 students
- Forest Elementary SchoolFARMINGTON HILLS, MI · 404 students
- Forest Elementary SchoolRIVERVIEW, MI · 395 students
Nearby schools
- ADULT ACADEMICS0.8 mi · 1
- ROBBINSDALE TRANSITION CENTER0.8 mi · 49
- ROBBINSDALE COOPER SENIOR HIGH0.8 mi · 1,396
- Robbinsdale Shared Time Program0.8 mi · 6
- EARLY CHILDHOOD SPECIAL EDUCATION0.9 mi · 271
- New Hope Learning Center0.9 mi · 16
Frequently asked questions
About FOREST ELEMENTARYWhat is the total enrollment at FOREST ELEMENTARY?
FOREST ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 464 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does FOREST ELEMENTARY serve?
FOREST ELEMENTARY serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does FOREST ELEMENTARY have?
FOREST ELEMENTARY employs 31 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.0:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at FOREST ELEMENTARY?
At FOREST ELEMENTARY, the student body is approximately 25% White, 19% Hispanic, 34% Black, 5% Asian, 16% Two or more.
Is FOREST ELEMENTARY public or private?
FOREST ELEMENTARY is a public K-12 school, overseen by ROBBINSDALE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.