Forest Hill Elementary School, 3368 S. Forest Hill-Irene Road: pre-K to fifth grade, 674 students in 2024-25, state letter grade B.

Last checked Oct. 18, 2026. Sources: Forest Hill Elementary School and Germantown Municipal School District, the Tennessee Department of Education’s State Report Card and 2024-25 and 2026 data files, and the federal NCES school directory.

Forest Hill Elementary School is a pre-K to fifth grade school of Germantown Municipal School District (GMSD) on South Forest Hill-Irene Road in the south of the city, beside the district office. The school says it opened in 2019 on 23 acres, with lakeside walking paths, two playgrounds, a learning garden and outdoor classrooms, and serves nearly 650 students in pre-K through fifth grade. Its students are the Foxes.

  • Address: 3368 S. Forest Hill-Irene Road, Germantown, TN 38138
  • Main office: 901-730-8520
  • Grades: pre-K to 5
  • School hours: 8:45 a.m. to 3:45 p.m.
  • Website: fhes.gmsdk12.org

Who to call

  • Front office: 901-730-8520
  • Enrolling a new student: GMSD Student Services, 901-752-7889, and the district’s registration page; the district office is 901-752-7900
  • Checking a zone: the GMSD school zone locator
  • Buses: the school’s transportation administrator, Christina Bennett, at 901-730-8515; Durham School Services’ main bus lot, 901-861-0256; or shared services transportation, 901-286-6703, according to the district’s transportation page

Principal

Principal Kendra Pickens, according to the school’s Meet Our Administrators page, which says she was an assistant principal at Forest Hill and GMSD’s human resources supervisor before returning as principal in fall 2024.

Enrollment

The federal NCES directory counted 689 students in the 2023-24 school year, with 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 14 students per teacher. The Tennessee Department of Education’s 2024-25 school profile file has a newer count of 674 students, including 24 in pre-K.

State report card

Tennessee grades every public school A to F. The department says School Letter Grades give “a snapshot of how each school in the state is performing, including student achievement and academic growth measures for all schools, as well as a measure of college and career readiness just for high schools.”

From the state’s 2024-25 letter grade file:

Measure Forest Hill Elementary
Overall letter grade, 2024-25 B (score 4.4 of 5)
Achievement grade A
Academic growth grade B
Growth of the lowest-scoring 25% of students C
Overall success rate on state tests, 2024-25 78.3%

The state’s spring 2026 test file has the share of Forest Hill’s third through fifth graders who met or exceeded expectations on TCAP: 80.9% in English language arts, 78.5% in math and 77.9% in science. The 2025-26 letter grades have not been published yet.

The State Report Card page for Forest Hill lists the school as a Reward School, the state’s label for high performance or improvement; the school says it earned the label for 2021-22 and 2024-25. The report card holds the full detail: results by grade and subject, chronic absenteeism and results for each group of students.

Attendance zone and feeder schools

GMSD serves residents of the City of Germantown. Check an address in the school zone locator, which shows the zoned elementary, middle and high school; the district asks families to confirm the result with Student Services. The locator lists the school at 3386 S. Forest Hill-Irene Road; the school and the state use 3368.

For addresses in the Forest Hill zone, the locator returns Houston Middle and then Houston High. Every point we checked in the Oakleigh and Germantown Station area south of Poplar Avenue is zoned for Forest Hill, according to our Oakleigh neighborhood guide.

We found no rezoning approved by the Germantown Board of Education that changes this school’s zone.

Calendar and school hours

The district’s 2026-27 instructional calendar (PDF, board-approved and marked pending state approval) has these dates next:

  • Monday, Oct. 19: second quarter begins
  • Monday, Nov. 2: district learning day, no school for students
  • Nov. 23-24: flex professional development days, no school for students
  • Nov. 25-27: Thanksgiving break
  • Friday, Dec. 18: half day, end of the second quarter
  • Dec. 21 to Jan. 1: winter break; students return Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2027
  • March 15-19: spring break
  • Friday, May 21, 2027: last day, a half day

School hours are 8:45 a.m. to 3:45 p.m., according to the district’s back-to-school guide. After-school care is through REACH, run by Germantown Parks and Recreation.

Activities

The school’s Student Life pages list clubs, Forest Hill Theatre, the Foxes Den Podcast and school counseling. The district says its elementary schools offer preschool programs taught by teachers endorsed in both general and special education.

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Frequently asked questions

What grades does Forest Hill Elementary serve?

Pre-kindergarten through fifth grade. The school is at 3368 S. Forest Hill-Irene Road in Germantown; the main office number is 901-730-8520.

What is Forest Hill Elementary’s state report card grade?

Forest Hill received a B overall in Tennessee’s 2024-25 School Letter Grades, with an A for achievement, according to the Tennessee Department of Education.

Which middle school does Forest Hill Elementary feed into?

Houston Middle School, then Houston High School, according to the district’s school zone locator.

What time does Forest Hill Elementary start?

School hours are 8:45 a.m. to 3:45 p.m., according to the district’s back-to-school guide.