FOREST VISTA EL

Set in FLOWER MOUND, Texas, FOREST VISTA EL is a mid-tier elementary-level community, overseen by LEWISVILLE ISD. It works with 557 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Within LEWISVILLE ISD, which oversees 62 schools and 47,876 students, FOREST VISTA EL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, FOREST VISTA EL lists that 48% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 23% Asian, 18% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 57%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, FOREST VISTA EL has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.3:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 19% of students at FOREST VISTA EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Denton County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, FOREST VISTA EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.7%, the actual is 73.3%, a residual of +7.6 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Denton County indicate the typical household earns roughly $111,498 per year, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. FOREST VISTA EL is one of 267 public schools in Denton County (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students).

The closest other public school is GARDEN RIDGE EL, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, FOREST VISTA EL comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 53.7%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at FOREST VISTA EL has grew 13%, going from 492 students in 2018 to 557 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 58% to 48%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 in 2025.

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