# FOREST HIGH SCHOOL

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/forest-high-school-ocala/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/forest-high-school-ocala

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120126001271`
- **School name**: FOREST HIGH SCHOOL
- **Location**: OCALA, FL 34480
- **Address**: 5000 SE MARICAMP RD
- **District**: MARION (LEAID `1201260`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 29.14244, -82.06727
- **Phone**: (352)671-4700
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5468906 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_High_School_(Florida)
- **Founded**: 1969

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,387
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 99
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 37.3%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: FL School Grade
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: B
- **Indicators**:
  - overall: B

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 70.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 91.0%
- **2021**: 94.0% (cohort of 550)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 698

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 38.5% (878 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.3% (31 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.6% (37 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 9.8% (233 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 151
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 18.9%
- **Black/African American**: 1.7%
- **Asian**: 15.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 58.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 4.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 41.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.6% — 252 students
- **English Learners**: 1.5% — 36 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 132 students
- **Autism**: 43 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 28 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 21 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 17 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 16 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 5 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,314
- **Federal share**: $1,389
- **State + local share**: $7,924
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,138,174
- **Federal share**: 21.4%
- **State share**: 43.3%
- **Local share**: 35.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $5,970,359

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $64,310
- **Poverty rate**: 12.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 21.3%
- **Unemployment**: 5.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,479
- **Foreign-born residents**: 12.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 14.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 39.5 miles (ZELLWOOD GROUND WATER CONTAMINATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 8
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.86 miles (CITY PARKING LOT BETWEEN NW 3RD ST AND NW 2ND ST)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: OCALA, CITY OF (2 WTPS)
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2022-07-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **SILVER RIVER MENTORING AND INSTRUCTION** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.3%)
- **OCALI CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.3%)
- **HILLCREST** — 2.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.3%)
- **SOUTH OCALA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.4 mi away, 1.27% (this school: 1.3%)
- **EIGHTH STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.3%)

### ela proficiency
- **WARD-HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.9 mi away, 66.5% (this school: 61%)
- **EIGHTH STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.8 mi away, 76.5% (this school: 61%)
- **OSCEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 4.8 mi away, 67% (this school: 61%)
- **MADISON STREET ACADEMY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS** — 6.1 mi away, 82.5% (this school: 61%)
- **DR N H JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 6.1 mi away, 80.5% (this school: 61%)

### math proficiency
- **MAPLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 47%)
- **OCALI CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.0 mi away, 59% (this school: 47%)
- **WARD-HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.9 mi away, 75% (this school: 47%)
- **MARION CHARTER SCHOOL** — 3.0 mi away, 68% (this school: 47%)
- **GREENWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.4 mi away, 49% (this school: 47%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/forest-high-school-ocala
- **Performance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/forest-high-school-ocala/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/forest-high-school-ocala/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/forest-high-school-ocala/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/forest-high-school-ocala/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/forest-high-school-ocala/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/forest-high-school-ocala/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/forest-high-school-ocala/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/forest-high-school-ocala/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/forest-high-school-ocala/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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