Forest Hills High

Forest Hills High is one of the moderately sized senior highs in Marshville, North Carolina, overseen by Union County Public Schools, with 973 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 28% larger than the state mean of about 761.

Union County Public Schools runs 52 schools in total, collectively educating 41,272 students. Forest Hills High is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Forest Hills High shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 27% Black, 23% White, 5% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.1:1. The state averages around 19.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Union County's rate of about 41%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Forest Hills High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 33.2%, a residual of -15.3 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Union County shows the typical household earns roughly $102,900 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Union County runs 58 public schools (combined enrollment of about 45,934 students), of which Forest Hills High is one.

The closest other public school is East Union Middle, roughly 1.7 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Forest Hills High comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 48.0%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Forest Hills High's enrollment has edged down 7% since 2018, when it stood at 1,041 (now 973). Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 34% to 44%.

On the community side, members of the Forest Hills High community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.