Forest Hills High School
Forest Hills, NY · High School · Grades 5-12
Forest Hills High School is a high school in Forest Hills, NY with 3,429 students enrolled and a 35% proficiency rate. Part of New York City Geographic District #28. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Forest Hills High School is a high school located in Forest Hills, New York. The school serves 3,429 students in grades 5-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 15.4:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 35% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading. The school reports a 67% graduation rate.
72% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating the school serves a predominantly low-income community.
Forest Hills High School is part of the New York City Geographic District #28 in New York. The school receives Title I federal funding.
How This School Compares
Forest Hills High School has 3,429 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in New York City Geographic District #28 (708 students). Its 35% proficiency rate is 6 percentage points below the district average of 41%. Compared to the New York state average of 47%, the school performs 11 points lower.
Frequently Asked Questions
Forest Hills High School has 3,429 students enrolled in grades 5-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 15.4:1.
According to EDFacts data, 35% of students at Forest Hills High School meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Forest Hills High School has a 67% graduation rate, measuring the percentage of students who graduate within four years.
Forest Hills High School is part of the New York City Geographic District #28 in Forest Hills, New York. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.