FOREST PARK MAGNET SCHOOL

FOREST PARK MAGNET SCHOOL is a tight-knit middle-grades school in LONGVIEW, Texas, overseen by LONGVIEW ISD. The school serves 474 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so FOREST PARK MAGNET SCHOOL sits 26% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 14 schools in LONGVIEW ISD (8,138 students total), FOREST PARK MAGNET SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, FOREST PARK MAGNET SCHOOL logs that 51% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 35% Black, 8% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Gregg County as a whole is about 20% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, FOREST PARK MAGNET SCHOOL has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Gregg County runs at roughly 68%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, FOREST PARK MAGNET SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.9%, the actual is 40.6%, a residual of +6.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Gregg County put median household income runs about $66,550, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Gregg County's 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,498 students), FOREST PARK MAGNET SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

DAN CHADWICK CAMPUS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), FOREST PARK MAGNET SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 50.9%.

The campus sits in an urban setting. FOREST PARK MAGNET SCHOOL operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 478 students in 2018 compared to 474 in 2025.

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