Education
Forest Hills Central has been ranked as one of the top 1,300 public schools nationwide in Newsweek's "America's Top Public Schools" since 2005. It was ranked 739th in the United States in 2005. It has been on the list five times.
Central offers 186 courses taught by an 84 person staff. Students from Central High have scored in the top one percent on the Michigan Merit Test (MME) and have out performed the state average in each category every year the test has been given.
Forest Hill Central students often matriculate at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Michigan State University, or Grand Valley State University. Most other major schools FHC graduates matriculate at are local schools like Kalamazoo College, Grand Rapids Community College, Hope College, and Calvin College. Nearly every year, one to two students matriculate at major private universities like Northwestern University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago, and Harvard University.
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