Green Forest, AR schools
Green Forest’s public schools score below Arkansas’s averages: 32% of students are proficient in reading against 36.8% statewide, and 87% of high schoolers graduate on time against 88.6%. Kids attend Green Forest Elementary School.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
Green Forest’s School Grade: C+
The public schools Green Forest’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 57% of Arkansas’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Arkansas’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Arkansas only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Arkansas with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
Where Green Forest kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Below the state in reading
87% graduate on time
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #79 of 115 AR towns →
The district serving Green Forest
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Colleges near Green Forest
There’s no college in Green Forest, but 2 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is North Arkansas College in Harrison, 20.7 miles away.
Straight-line distance from the center of Green Forest. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus. Colleges marked › have their own page; the others are too small or don’t report enough to the Department of Education for one.
All 3 schools in Green Forest
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.