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Enrollment
389
Elementary
DISTRICT 372 · STATE 321
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAKE OSWEGO SD 7J·NCES 410723000060
Forest Hills Elementary School
1133 SW Andrews Rd, Lake Oswego, OR 97034 · (503) 534-2350 · Clackamas County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL389 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 93% of Oregon public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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 Oregon public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.8:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.1:1 · STATE 16.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
7%
27 students
DISTRICT 19% · STATE 76%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 48 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 52 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 52 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 70 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 81 | 21% |
| Grade 5 | 86 | 22% |
This year's kindergarten class (48) is 44% smaller than its 5th grade class (86).
Student demographics
42%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 59% · 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
OSAS 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
82.0%
OR avg 43.0% . +3.1pp since 2023
Math
79.4%
OR avg 31.8% . +1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the OSAS, Oregon's statewide test, about 82 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 79 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Oregon schools, those numbers are about 43 and 32. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
OSAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 82.0% | 79.4% |
| 2023-24 | 78.9% | 78.4% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: OSAS. 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
75.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.9%
based on OR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 76% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% typical for Oregon 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 Oregon'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 Hills Elementary School
Forest Hills Elementary School's state test result (75.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forest Hills Elementary School this school | 389 | 6.9% | 75.8% |
| Westridge Elementary School Lake Oswego | 389 | 5.4% | 85.4% |
| Middleton Elementary School Sherwood | 395 | 12.7% | 62.1% |
| Trillium Creek Primary School West Linn | 480 | 14.4% | 57.9% |
| Hallinan Elementary School Lake Oswego | 364 | 15.9% | 74.7% |
| Stafford Primary School West Linn | 323 | 12.7% | 64.4% |
Matched among Oregon 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 Hills Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Oregon | In Clackamas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 75.8% | #7 of 591 | #2 of 63 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 79.4% | #9 of 646 ▼ 1 | #2 of 66 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 82.0% | #9 of 646 ▲ 10 | #2 of 66 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 389 | #225 of 710 | #31 of 67 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.8:1 | #277 of 587 | #28 of 62 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 41.7% | #420 of 587 | #48 of 62 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 6.9% | #644 of 645 | #63 of 64 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.4% | #449 of 493 | #37 of 43 |
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
389
-24 (-6%) vs 2020
+3% since 1990-91, when it was 378
Student : Teacher
16.8:1
was 17.2:1
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 | 389 | 23.2 | 16.8:1 | 7% (27) |
| 2023-24 | 399 | 25.4 | 15.7:1 | 6% (25) |
| 2022-23 | 419 | 25.6 | 16.4:1 | 4% (18) |
| 2020-21 | 413 | 24 | 17.2:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 411 | 23.5 | 17.5:1 | 8% (31) |
| 2015-16 | 452 | 23 | 19.6:1 | 8% (36) |
| 2010-11 | 397 | 17 | 23.4:1 | 9% (34) |
| 2000-01 | 415 | 20 | 20.8:1 | 5% (22) |
| 1990-91 | 378 | 19 | 19.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Forest Hills Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (411 to 389); teachers down 1% (23.5 to 23.2).
About Forest Hills Elementary School
Forest Hills Elementary School is classified as an elementary school. It is located in Lake Oswego, Oregon. Its grade span covers kindergarten through 5, with 389 students on the rolls. That compares with an average of about 321 students for elementary schools in Oregon.
The district, Lake Oswego SD 7J, has 6,827 students enrolled across 12 schools.
Federal enrollment data show Forest Hills Elementary School is 75% White. Other groups make up 11% multiracial, 8% Asian, and 5% Hispanic. In Clackamas County overall, the White share is about 79%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 42, compared with 70 nationally.
Forest Hills Elementary School has 23.2 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.8:1. The average for elementary schools in Oregon is about 16.5:1. The school has 7% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Clackamas County averages 50%, higher than here.
Forest Hills Elementary School holds an A allk12 Grade, placing it above 93% of Oregon public elementary schools.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Forest Hills Elementary School would be expected to post about 59.9%. Its actual average proficiency rate across its state test results is 75.8%.
The county, Clackamas County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $103,517 a year, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Clackamas County has 118 public schools with about 57,601 students, including Forest Hills Elementary School.
Forest Hills Elementary School is about 1.3 miles from Lake Oswego High School, its nearest public school. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Its average proficiency rate of 75.8% is above the 52.9% average for nearby schools.
Forest Hills Elementary School falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2020-21, Forest Hills Elementary School enrolled 413 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 389.
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Clackamas County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
423,975
Census ACS
Median income
$103,517
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
41%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
118
57,601 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lake Oswego SD 7J
- Lake Oswego High SchoolHigh · 1,282 students
- Lakeridge High SchoolHigh · 1,241 students
- Lakeridge Middle SchoolMiddle · 888 students
- Lake Oswego Middle SchoolMiddle · 791 students
- Lake Grove Elementary SchoolElementary · 425 students
- Oak Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 402 students
Other schools in Lake Oswego
- Lake Oswego High SchoolHigh · 1,282 students
- Lakeridge High SchoolHigh · 1,241 students
- Lakeridge Middle SchoolMiddle · 888 students
- Lake Oswego Middle SchoolMiddle · 791 students
- Lake Grove Elementary SchoolElementary · 425 students
- Oak Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 402 students
Other Forest Hills Elementary schools
7 other US public schools in 7 states are named Forest Hills Elementary. Forest Hills Elementary School is the 6th largest of the 8.
- Forest Hills Elementary SchoolSidman, PA · 994 students
- FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLTAMPA, FL · 731 students
- FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLCORAL SPRINGS, FL · 624 students
- FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARYEDEN PRAIRIE, MN · 603 students
- Forest Hills ElementaryWalterboro, SC · 472 students
Nearby schools
- Lake Oswego High School1.3 mi · 1,282
- Lake Oswego Middle School1.3 mi · 791
- Riverdale Grade School1.4 mi · 406
- Hallinan Elementary School1.6 mi · 364
- Oak Grove Elementary1.7 mi · 262
- Stephenson Elementary School1.7 mi · 285
Frequently asked questions
About Forest Hills Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Forest Hills Elementary School?
Forest Hills Elementary School enrolls approximately 389 students in grades KG-05.
Is Forest Hills Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Forest Hills Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Forest Hills Elementary School have?
Forest Hills Elementary School employs 23 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Forest Hills Elementary School?
Student demographics at Forest Hills Elementary School are roughly 75% White, 5% Hispanic, 2% Black, 8% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Is Forest Hills Elementary School public or private?
Forest Hills Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Lake Oswego SD 7J.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.