Forest Hill Elementary School vs Dogwood Elementary School

Dogwood Elementary School and Forest Hill Elementary School sit 1.9 miles apart in Germantown, Tennessee, yet their statewide standings tell meaningfully different stories. Forest Hill Elementary School holds the stronger overall rating at 9.5 out of 10 compared to Dogwood Elementary School's 9.1 out of 10 — a 0.4-point gap that translates into a dramatic difference in state rank: Forest Hill Elementary School ranks #11 of 1,785 Tennessee elementary schools while Dogwood Elementary School ranks #50 of 1,785. Both numbers represent elite performance in a state of nearly 1,800 schools, but Forest Hill's position places it in the top 0.7 percent statewide versus Dogwood's top 3 percent.

On raw academic proficiency, the schools are nearly reversed: Dogwood Elementary School scores 9.9 out of 10 in academics against Forest Hill Elementary School's 9.7 out of 10, a 0.2-point edge for Dogwood. The sharper divergence appears in growth scores — Forest Hill Elementary School scores 9.7 out of 10 in growth while Dogwood Elementary School scores 8.8 out of 10, a 0.9-point gap indicating that Forest Hill students are gaining ground against their academic peers at a faster rate regardless of where they start. For families weighing current proficiency against year-over-year momentum, these two metrics point in opposite directions.

Both schools serve grades PK through 5 and operate at comparable scale. Dogwood Elementary School enrolls 647 students against Forest Hill Elementary School's 689, a difference of 42 students. Student-teacher ratios are nearly identical — 14.4 to 1 at Dogwood Elementary School versus 14.1 to 1 at Forest Hill Elementary School — meaning class-size experience is functionally equivalent across both campuses. Neither school offers a structural advantage in direct instructional attention based on these figures.

Because both schools are PK–5 Germantown campuses with similar enrollment and staffing ratios, the decision reduces to the academic-versus-growth tradeoff. Dogwood Elementary School's 9.9 academic score signals higher current proficiency floors; Forest Hill Elementary School's combination of a #11 state rank and a 9.7 growth score signals that students there are consistently outpacing expectations. The 0.4-point overall rating gap in Forest Hill's favor is driven primarily by that growth advantage.