Forest Park Elementary

Set in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Forest Park Elementary is a mid-tier elementary campus, operated by Kenosha School District. It caters to 391 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so Forest Park Elementary sits 21% larger than that benchmark.

Kenosha School District runs 41 schools in total, collectively educating 20,297 students. Forest Park Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Forest Park Elementary logs that the most-represented group is White (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 34% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 7% Black. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 54% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Forest Park Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.2%; this one delivers 39.0%.

In the area at large, census data for Kenosha County shows median household income runs about $81,239, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Forest Park Elementary is one of 56 public schools in Kenosha County (combined enrollment of about 27,114 students).

Nearest neighbor: Kenosha High School of Technology Enhanced Curriculum, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Forest Park Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Forest Park Elementary at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 41.7%.

Forest Park Elementary operates from an urban location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 4%: 409 students in 2018 compared to 391 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 61% to 47% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

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