Forest Hill School

Set in CAMDEN, New Jersey, Forest Hill School is a low-enrollment primary school, one of the schools within Camden City School District. It hosts 339 students across grades K through 6.

Across the 16 schools in Camden City School District (5,871 students total), Forest Hill School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Forest Hill School shows that 64% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder looks like 33% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 19% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. Roughly 64% of students at Forest Hill School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Camden County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Forest Hill School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 31.3%; this one comes in at 11.9%, -19.4 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, Camden County reports that the typical household earns roughly $88,755 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Camden County's 158 public schools (combined enrollment of about 82,104 students), Forest Hill School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Dr. Charles E. Brimm Medical Arts High School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Forest Hill School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Forest Hill School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 12.8%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Forest Hill School has rose 19%, going from 286 students in 2018 to 339 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 74% to 64%. Class-load math has fell: from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 9.2:1 in 2025.

On allk12, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.