Forest Park Elementary

Located at 2019 Milford Street, in Winston Salem, North Carolina, Forest Park Elementary is a mid-tier K-5 school that enrolls 522 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools.

Forest Park Elementary is one of 79 schools operated by Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools, a district that educates 51,745 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Forest Park Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 70% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 23% Black, 4% multiracial, 2% White. By comparison, Forsyth County as a whole is about 15% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Forest Park Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 99% of students at Forest Park Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Forsyth County's rate of about 88%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Forest Park Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 39.5%, a residual of -9.0 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Forsyth County indicate the typical household earns roughly $67,165 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Forsyth County's 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,902 students), Forest Park Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Hanes Magnet School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Forest Park Elementary comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 38.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. Forest Park Elementary's enrollment has declined 22% since 2018, when it stood at 669 (now 522). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 today.

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