NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools IL

Best-Resourced Schools in Forest Park, IL

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5 public K-12 schools in Forest Park from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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5
Schools
1,649
Students
44.4/100
Avg Resource Index
12.8:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Forest Park has more public-school enrollment than 7% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Proviso Math and Science Academy enrolls 56.1% of Forest Park's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Forest Park's list includes 2 elementary, 1 middle, and 1 high-school campus, plus 1 combined-grade record. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 13-point gap between Field Stevenson Elem School and Betsy Ross Elem School shows the range hidden by Forest Park's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 93%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
68th percentile
Teacher staffing
81st percentile

Proviso Math and Science Academy accounts for 56.1% of all Forest Park public-school enrollment

That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Forest Park a distant remainder — means Forest Park-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Forest Park school enrollment varies 6.7× across entities

Forest Park school enrollment ranges from 138 students (lowest) to 925 students (highest), a spread of 787 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Forest Park student-teacher ratio is 12.8:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Field Stevenson Elem School 51
2. Forest Park Middle School 46
3. Garfield Elem School 45
4. Proviso Math and Science Academy 42
5. Betsy Ross Elem School 38

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Forest Park

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Garfield Elem School 73.2/100
  2. 2 Field Stevenson Elem School 70.7/100
  3. 3 Betsy Ross Elem School 70.4/100
  4. 4 Forest Park Middle School 61.9/100
  5. 5 Proviso Math and Science Academy 50.6/100

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Which Forest Park school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Field Stevenson Elem School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Forest Park schools in this federal-data comparison at 51/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Forest Park, IL? ▼

Forest Park has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 1,649 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.8:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.