Forrest Edwin Sch

Forrest Edwin Sch is one of the well-populated K-5 schools in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Philadelphia City SD, with 841 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 90% bigger than typical.

Philadelphia City SD runs 220 schools in total, collectively educating 116,230 students. Forrest Edwin Sch is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Forrest Edwin Sch lists that 51% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 24% Black, 12% White, 8% multiracial, 5% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Forrest Edwin Sch logs 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.5:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Forrest Edwin Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.9%, the actual is 21.7%, a residual of -14.2 points.

Around the school, Philadelphia County reports that the typical household earns roughly $61,953 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Forrest Edwin Sch is one of 309 public schools in Philadelphia County (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students).

Nearest neighbor: Keystone Academy CS, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Forrest Edwin Sch ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 30.8%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Forrest Edwin Sch has declined 31%, going from 1,213 students in 2018 to 841 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 25% to 51%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 21.0:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Forrest Edwin Sch typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.