Photo: Larry Pieniazek, Lar (commons) or Lar(en:wp) (primary) · CC BY 2.5Forest Hills’s public schools
Forest Hills Public Schools and Lowell Area Schools have no state test or graduation results we can use, so there is no Schools grade for Forest Hills. Each school below is shown with its own results.
Tests spring 2022, when 100% of students in Michigan’s tested grades sat them, and the class of 2023’s graduation rate (U.S. Department of Education). How TownRatings grades schools
Forest Hills’s schools, in brief
School by school
18 of Forest Hills’s 18 district schools with test results score above the middle of Michigan’s 2,812 public schools. Ada Elementary School places highest (better than 99%); Lowell Senior High School lowest (80%). See the path ↓
Which school depends on your street
11 elementary schools serve Forest Hills, graded from A to A+, so it’s worth checking the specific school. Then four middle schools and four high schools: Northern High School, Lowell Senior High School, Central High School and Eastern High School. See the path ↓
Written from the figures on this page. Tests are from 2021–22, graduation from the class of 2023; each school’s own letter uses 2020–21 results.
Where will my kid go?
Pick a grade. These are the public schools in Forest Hills, with each school’s own grade.
Which school depends on your address. To confirm it, ask the Forest Hills Public Schools.
Two districts serve Forest Hills
Spending and class size are shown but don’t count toward the grade. Each district’s own page has every school.
Well above the state in reading
Forest Hills vs. its neighbors
Schools grades for the Michigan towns that share Forest Hills’s borders.
| Town | Schools | Main districts |
|---|---|---|
| Forest Hills | — | Forest Hills PK–12 · Lowell Area Schools PK–12 |
| Ada | A+ | Forest Hills PK–12 · Lowell Area Schools PK–12 |
| Cannon | A+ | Rockford |
| Grand Rapids | A+ | Forest Hills |
| Cascade | A+ | Forest Hills PK–12 · Caledonia PK–12 |
| Kentwood | B | Kentwood |
| Vergennes | A | Lowell Area Schools |
| Lowell | A | Lowell Area Schools |
| Plainfield | A | Rockford PK–12 · Northview Public PK–12 |
3 of the 8 neighbors share Forest Hills with Forest Hills for grades PK–12, so their letters differ mainly through the lower grades.
Every school in Forest Hills
19 schools. Each public school’s letter compares its own 2020–21 reading and math results with Michigan’s other public schools (the newest school-level results we have).
Questions about Forest Hills’s schools
Are Forest Hills’s schools good?
There’s no Schools grade for Forest Hills. Forest Hills Public Schools and Lowell Area Schools have no state test or graduation results we can use, so there is no Schools grade for Forest Hills. Each school below is shown with its own results. School by school, 18 of its 18 district schools with test results score above the middle of Michigan’s public schools on their 2020–21 results.
What school district is Forest Hills in?
Forest Hills Public Schools and Lowell Area Schools.
Where do Forest Hills kids go to high school?
One of four high schools, depending on your address: Northern High School, Lowell Senior High School, Central High School and Eastern High School.
Parents talk
What Forest Hills families are saying about school.
Looking for colleges? Colleges near Forest Hills → They have their own page.
School data: state test results (2021–22, with participation) and four-year graduation rates (class of 2023) reported to the U.S. Department of Education (EDFacts via ED Data Express); each school’s own letter uses its 2020–21 results (EDFacts via the Urban Institute); schools and enrollment from NCES (2024–25; private schools 2023–24); spending from the Census Bureau’s school finance survey (FY2024). Stars are from neighbors.