Forest Hills Elementary

Forest Hills Elementary is one of the intimate K-5 schools in Danville, Virginia, run under Danville City Public Schools, with 200 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 499 students per school, that is 60% below typical.

Forest Hills Elementary is one of 13 schools operated by Danville City Public Schools, a district that teaches 5,564 students overall.

On demographics, Forest Hills Elementary lists that 48% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 30% White, 16% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 2% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Danville city as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Forest Hills Elementary reports 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Forest Hills Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 90% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Forest Hills Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.6%, the actual is 73.0%, a residual of +9.4 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Danville city put median household earnings sit near $44,423, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 19% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Forest Hills Elementary is one of 20 public schools in Danville city (combined enrollment of about 5,564 students).

Nearest neighbor: George Washington High, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Forest Hills Elementary. On composite proficiency, Forest Hills Elementary comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 53.3%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 16%: 237 students in 2018 compared to 200 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 51% to 30% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

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