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Enrollment
522
Elementary
DISTRICT 526 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WINSTON SALEM / FORSYTH COUNTY SCHOOLS·NCES 370150000603
Forest Park Elementary
2019 Milford Street, Winston Salem, NC 27107 · (336) 703-4291 · Forsyth County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL522 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 14% of North Carolina public elementary schools
- DTest 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.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded North Carolina public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.4:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
519 students
DISTRICT 90% · STATE 82%
Community
1
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 | 28 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 78 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 86 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 75 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 80 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 82 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 93 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (78) is 16% smaller than its 5th grade class (93).
Student demographics
46%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 71% · 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
NC EOG / EOC 2024-25 . % Grade Level Proficient (Level 3+)English Language Arts
28.0%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
50.6%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all North Carolina schools, those numbers are about 51 and 52.
Source: NC EOG / EOC. 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
39.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.5%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% typical for North Carolina 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 North Carolina'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 Park Elementary
Forest Park Elementary's state test result (39.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forest Park Elementary this school | 522 | 99.4% | 39.5% |
| Easton Elementary School Winston Salem | 504 | 99.4% | 27.3% |
| Devonshire Elementary Charlotte | 550 | 99.5% | 31.6% |
| Hall-Woodward Elementary Winston Salem | 532 | 99.4% | 38.7% |
| Virginia Cross Elementary Siler City | 494 | 99.4% | 42.2% |
| Oaklawn Language Academy Charlotte | 531 | 97.4% | 67.1% |
Matched among North Carolina 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 Park Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Forsyth County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.5% | #1,110 of 1,297 | #33 of 42 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.6% | #889 of 1,296 | #28 of 42 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 28.0% | #1,221 of 1,300 | #35 of 42 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 522 | #552 of 1,485 | #25 of 47 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.4:1 | #45 of 1,377 | #3 of 44 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 45.6% | #1,078 of 1,379 | #41 of 45 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.4% | #248 of 1,414 | #21 of 44 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -22.0% | #234 of 937 | #10 of 32 |
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
522
-12 (-2%) vs 2020
-18% since 1990-91, when it was 639
Student : Teacher
11.4:1
was 13.3:1
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 | 522 | 45.9 | 11.4:1 | 99% (519) |
| 2023-24 | 529 | 41.3 | 12.8:1 | 99% (526) |
| 2022-23 | 508 | 37.2 | 13.7:1 | 99% (505) |
| 2020-21 | 534 | 40 | 13.3:1 | 99% (531) |
| 2017-18 | 669 | 43.5 | 15.4:1 | 100% (666) |
| 2015-16 | 672 | 46 | 14.6:1 | 98% (659) |
| 2010-11 | 573 | 46 | 12.5:1 | 98% (561) |
| 2000-01 | 535 | 57 | 9.4:1 | 99% (532) |
| 1990-91 | 639 | 38 | 16.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Forest Park Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (669 to 522); teachers up 6% (43.5 to 45.9).
About Forest Park Elementary
Forest Park Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school in Winston Salem, North Carolina, one of the schools in Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools. The student body numbers 522 students, from pre-K through 5.
Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools is the district for Forest Park Elementary. It has 79 schools and 51,745 students.
At 70%, Hispanic students outnumber all other groups at Forest Park Elementary combined. After that, the student body is 23% Black, 4% multiracial, and 2% White. Among all residents of Forsyth County, the Hispanic share is about 15%. Forest Park Elementary has a diversity index of 46%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Federal data list 45.9 full-time-equivalent teachers at Forest Park Elementary in 2024-25, for a ratio of 11.4:1. Among elementary schools in North Carolina, the typical ratio is 14.9:1. The lunch program counts 99% of students at Forest Park Elementary as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The rate at public schools in Forsyth County averages 88%, lower than here.
Forest Park Elementary is graded D by allk12, scoring above 14% of North Carolina public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Forest Park Elementary's average proficiency rate on state tests of 39.5% is 9.0 points below the 48.5% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
Census estimates describe Forsyth County this way: median household income is about $67,165, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 39% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. Federal data list 88 public schools in Forsyth County, with a combined enrollment of about 55,902.
The nearest public school is Hanes Magnet School, at about 0.8 miles. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. By average proficiency, Forest Park Elementary is 4th among 7 schools close by.
The federal government classifies Forest Park Elementary's location as City: Large.
The school's size has been steady, with 534 students in 2020-21 and 522 in 2024-25. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 11.4:1, from 13.3:1.
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Forsyth County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
389,977
Census ACS
Median income
$67,165
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
88
55,902 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools
- West Forsyth HighHigh · 2,145 students
- Ronald W Reagan High SchoolHigh · 2,122 students
- R J Reynolds HighHigh · 1,759 students
- East Forsyth HighHigh · 1,647 students
- Parkland HighHigh · 1,569 students
- Mount Tabor High SchoolHigh · 1,426 students
Other schools in Winston Salem
- R J Reynolds HighHigh · 1,759 students
- Parkland HighHigh · 1,569 students
- Mount Tabor High SchoolHigh · 1,426 students
- North Forsyth Magnet HighHigh · 1,084 students
- Hanes Magnet SchoolMiddle · 967 students
- Speas ElementaryElementary · 793 students
Other Forest Park Elementary schools
12 other US public schools in 11 states are named Forest Park Elementary. Forest Park Elementary is the 4th largest of the 13.
- Forest Park ElementaryKannapolis, NC · 472 students
- Forest Park ElementaryFremont, CA · 725 students
- FOREST PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBOYNTON BEACH, FL · 613 students
- Forest Park Elementary SchoolFort Wayne, IN · 558 students
- FOREST PARK ELEM.O'FALLON, MO · 436 students
Nearby schools
- Hanes Magnet School0.8 mi · 967
- Carter G. Woodson School0.9 mi · 485
- Easton Elementary School1.2 mi · 504
- Main Street Academy1.4 mi · 63
- Konnoak Middle School2.2 mi · 363
- Konnoak Elementary2.2 mi · 600
Frequently asked questions
About Forest Park ElementaryHow large is Forest Park Elementary?
Forest Park Elementary enrolls approximately 522 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Forest Park Elementary serve?
Forest Park Elementary serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Forest Park Elementary?
Approximately 11.4:1 students per teacher at Forest Park Elementary.
How diverse is Forest Park Elementary?
Forest Park Elementary reports a student body of 2% White, 70% Hispanic, 23% Black, 0% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Forest Park Elementary in?
Forest Park Elementary is part of Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.