Forest Hills Global Elementary

Forest Hills Global Elementary operates as a small primary school in Wilmington, North Carolina, part of New Hanover County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 340 students spanning grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 467 students per school, that is 27% below typical.

New Hanover County Schools comprises 42 schools with combined enrollment of 24,791 students; Forest Hills Global Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Forest Hills Global Elementary lists that the most-represented group is Black (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 38% Hispanic, 13% White, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 11% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Forest Hills Global Elementary has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Roughly 99% of students at Forest Hills Global Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above New Hanover County's rate of about 67%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Forest Hills Global Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.6%, the actual is 34.9%, a residual of -13.6 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for New Hanover County put median household income runs about $75,166, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across New Hanover County's 50 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,460 students), Forest Hills Global Elementary is one campus in the mix.

A H Snipes Academy of Arts/Des is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Forest Hills Global Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Forest Hills Global Elementary at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 34.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 20%: 423 students in 2018 compared to 340 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 13% to 38% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 today.

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