Enrollment
391
Elementary
DISTRICT 386 · STATE 323
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·KENOSHA SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 550732000806
Forest Park Elementary
6810 45th Ave, Kenosha, WI 53142 · (262) 359-6319 · Kenosha County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL391 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 15% of Wisconsin public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Wisconsin public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 14.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
54%
213 students
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 42%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 30 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 57 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 63 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 61 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 62 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 46 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 72 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (57) is 21% smaller than its 5th grade class (72).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
36.3%
WI avg 53.1% . -1.0pp since 2023
Math
41.5%
WI avg 54.8% . +2.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 36.3% | 41.5% |
| 2023-24 | 37.3% | 38.7% |
% Meeting or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Forward Exam. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
39.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.2%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Wisconsin's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Forest Park Elementary
Forest Park Elementary's state test result (39.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forest Park Elementary this school | 391 | 54.5% | 39.0% |
| Harvey Elementary Kenosha | 322 | 55.0% | 51.1% |
| Rawson Elementary South Milwaukee | 371 | 61.5% | 39.1% |
| Lincoln Elementary Whitewater | 358 | 55.9% | 42.2% |
| Colby Elementary Colby | 354 | 55.9% | 40.9% |
| Roosevelt Elementary Kenosha | 491 | 61.5% | 59.5% |
Matched among Wisconsin elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Forest Park Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Kenosha County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.0% | #770 of 982 | #23 of 33 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 41.5% | #715 of 992 ▲ 43 | #23 of 34 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 36.3% | #783 of 992 ▼ 10 | #24 of 34 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 391 | #368 of 1,157 | #19 of 36 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.5:1 | #505 of 901 | #16 of 33 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.9% | #159 of 901 | #15 of 33 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 54.5% | #344 of 1,064 | #16 of 34 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.4% | #579 of 664 | #11 of 15 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
391
+92 (+31%) vs 2020
-38% since 1990-91, when it was 628
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
was 13.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 391 | 29 | 13.5:1 | 54% (213) |
| 2023-24 | 326 | 25.5 | 12.8:1 | 40% (132) |
| 2022-23 | 342 | 21 | 16.3:1 | 51% (176) |
| 2020-21 | 299 | 23 | 13.0:1 | 57% (171) |
| 2017-18 | 409 | 26 | 15.7:1 | 47% (192) |
| 2015-16 | 412 | 28 | 14.7:1 | 46% (190) |
| 2010-11 | 476 | 28 | 17.0:1 | 45% (212) |
| 2000-01 | 473 | 27 | 17.5:1 | 27% (127) |
| 1990-91 | 628 | 26 | 24.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Forest Park Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 4% (409 to 391); teachers up 11% (26 to 29).
About Forest Park Elementary
Forest Park Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school in Kenosha, Wisconsin, one of the schools in Kenosha School District. The grade span is pre-K through 5, and enrollment is 391 students. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Wisconsin) has about 323 students.
District-wide, Kenosha School District has 41 schools and 20,297 students.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at Forest Park Elementary. The largest is White students, at 47%. The remaining students are 34% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, and 7% Black. Census figures show Kenosha County is about 75% White. Pick two students at random and there is a 65% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The teaching staff at Forest Park Elementary is 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 13.5:1. This ratio sits 1.2 below the 14.7:1 average for elementary schools in Wisconsin. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 54%.
The allk12 Grade for Forest Park Elementary is C-. Compared with Wisconsin public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 15% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Test results at Forest Park Elementary are 5.2 points below what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (39.0% actual, 44.2% predicted).
According to the American Community Survey, in Kenosha County, the median household income is $81,239, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 8% of people live in poverty. Forest Park Elementary is one of 56 public schools in the county.
The nearest other public school, Kenosha High School of Technology Enhanced Curriculum, is about 0.6 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Forest Park Elementary is 4th of 7 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
The school's locale code, City: Small, means it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 92 more students in 2024-25.
The allk12 site hosts a discussion page for Forest Park Elementary covering things like sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
Kenosha County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
168,438
Census ACS
Median income
$81,239
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
56
27,114 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Kenosha School District
- Indian Trail High School and AcademyHigh · 1,902 students
- Bradford HighHigh · 1,453 students
- Tremper HighHigh · 1,417 students
- Mahone MiddleMiddle · 1,025 students
- Lakeview K-8 AcademyElementary · 988 students
- Lance MiddleMiddle · 899 students
Other schools in Kenosha
- Indian Trail High School and AcademyHigh · 1,902 students
- Bradford HighHigh · 1,453 students
- Tremper HighHigh · 1,417 students
- Mahone MiddleMiddle · 1,025 students
- Lakeview K-8 AcademyElementary · 988 students
- Lance MiddleMiddle · 899 students
Other Forest Park Elementary schools
12 other US public schools in 11 states are named Forest Park Elementary. Forest Park Elementary is the 7th largest of the 13.
- Forest Park ElementaryFremont, CA · 725 students
- FOREST PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBOYNTON BEACH, FL · 613 students
- Forest Park Elementary SchoolFort Wayne, IN · 558 students
- Forest Park ElementaryWinston Salem, NC · 522 students
- Forest Park ElementaryKannapolis, NC · 472 students
Nearby schools
- Kenosha High School of Technology Enhanced Curriculum0.6 mi · 80
- Roosevelt Elementary0.8 mi · 491
- Strange Elementary1.0 mi · 522
- Lance Middle1.0 mi · 899
- Kenosha School of Language (KSOL)1.0 mi · 330
- Stocker Elementary1.0 mi · 302
Frequently asked questions
About Forest Park ElementaryHow large is Forest Park Elementary?
Forest Park Elementary enrolls approximately 391 students in grades PK-05.
Is Forest Park Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Forest Park Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Forest Park Elementary have?
Forest Park Elementary employs 29 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.5:1.
What is the student diversity at Forest Park Elementary?
Student demographics at Forest Park Elementary are roughly 47% White, 34% Hispanic, 7% Black, 2% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Who oversees Forest Park Elementary?
Forest Park Elementary is overseen by Kenosha School District in Kenosha County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.