Forest Ridge

Size

Of the 10 elementary schools in College Station ISD, Forest Ridge is the 9th largest, with 3.4% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2.2 miles away with a median enrollment of 583; Forest Ridge is close to their typical size.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 4 with 104 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 41, against an average of 82 per grade. This year grade 4 has 37% more students than kindergarten (104 against 76). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 41 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is White students: 57.7% here and 49.8% across College Station ISD. Hispanic students are next, at 17%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

27% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 40.5% across College Station ISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 34 full-time-equivalent teachers for 489 students, Forest Ridge has 14.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 489 students would have about 33 teachers, so Forest Ridge has 1 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

Forest Ridge is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people, which NCES calls city, midsize. The nearest other elementary school is Spring Creek Elementary School, 1.2 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 21 other elementary schools, 9 of them within 5 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.