Elementary · South Carolina
Forest Lake Elementary
Forest Lake Elementary, a public elementary school in Columbia, South Carolina: grades pre-k–5, 652 students, 13.2 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Richland 02.
Size and class size
Compared with elementary schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 652
- Teachers (FTE)
- 49.3
- Students per teacher
- 13.2
- Grades
- Pre-K–5
- Elementary
Fewer students per teacher than 54% of elementary schools in South Carolina
Median 13.4 · 691 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 66% of elementary schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 50,575 schools compared
Larger than 73% of elementary schools in South Carolina
Median 505 · 691 schools compared
Larger than 85% of elementary schools in the US
Median 415 · 51,933 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- Elementary · Grades Pre-K–5
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- Some virtual classes
- Area
- Large suburb
- Run by
- Richland 02
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Richland 02.
Location
- Address
- 6801 Brookfield Road, Columbia, SC 29206
- Phone
- (803)782-0470
- City or town
- Forest Acres
- County
- Richland County
Nearby elementary schools
The closest public elementary schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Jackson Creek ElementaryFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 551 | 10.9 |
L. W. Conder ElementaryFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 489 | 11.2 |
Satchel Ford ElementaryFree meals for all | K–5 | 721 | 15.2 |
Joseph Keels ElementaryFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 465 | 10.9 |
Brockman ElementaryFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 297 | 14.1 |
| K–8 | 1,275 | 14.6 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level.
NCES 450339000969