Lake Forest Hills Elementary, 3140 Lake Forest Drive: pre-K to grade 5, 760 students in 2025, CCRPI 58.1. Zone, feeders and the 7:25 a.m. start.
Last checked Oct. 6, 2026. Sources: the Lake Forest Hills Elementary website, the Richmond County School System’s school directory, School Zone and Bus Stop Locator and 2026-27 calendar (PDF), the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement’s 2025 School Grades data and the federal NCES school directory.
Lake Forest Hills Elementary School is a Richmond County School System elementary school on Lake Forest Drive in west Augusta. It serves pre-K through fifth grade and is one of the district’s International Baccalaureate schools.
- Address: 3140 Lake Forest Drive, Augusta, GA 30909
- Phone: 706-737-7317
- Grades: Pre-K to 5
- Website: lakeforesthills.rcboe.org
Who to call
- Lake Forest Hills Elementary front office: 706-737-7317
- Register a new student: the district’s Registration Central, then the school
- Bus routes: the Transportation Department, 706-796-4777
- Richmond County School System central office: 706-826-1000
- Is this your school? Check an address in the School Zone and Bus Stop Locator
Principal
Principal Lisa Hughey, according to the district’s school directory.
Enrollment and teachers
The state counted 760 students at Lake Forest Hills Elementary in its 2025 School Grades data. The most recent federal figure, from the NCES directory for the 2023-24 school year, is 544 students and 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 12.4 students per teacher.
State report card
Lake Forest Hills Elementary’s 2025 CCRPI single score was 58.1, according to the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement’s School Grades data. The Georgia average for elementary schools was 78.6 and the Richmond County School System’s was 65.5. The school’s single score was 80.7 in 2023, 64.4 in 2024 and 58.1 in 2025. The full report card, with subgroups and the parts of the score, is on the state’s Lake Forest Hills Elementary report card.
CCRPI is the Georgia Department of Education’s “comprehensive school improvement, accountability, and communication platform,” according to GaDOE. The single score runs from 0 to 100 and is built from content mastery, progress, closing gaps and readiness, plus graduation rate for high schools. Georgia does not publish an A-to-F letter grade for schools in its 2025 data.
Georgia Milestones end-of-grade tests (grades 3-5), 2025, share of tested students at each of the two top levels:
| Subject | Proficient | Distinguished |
|---|---|---|
| English language arts | 34.7% | 6.1% |
| Math | 25.3% | 8.5% |
| Science (fifth grade) | 25.8% | 7.9% |
The same data put 44.6% of third graders (Georgia: 41.7%) and 55.1% of fifth graders (Georgia: 55.1%) reading at or above grade level.
Attendance zone
Zones are set by the Richmond County School System and do not follow neighborhood lines or city limits. Check any address in the district’s School Zone and Bus Stop Locator. The district does not publish a feeder list; the feeder schools below come from that locator, which we checked at about 1,200 points across Richmond County on Oct. 6, 2026. Lake Forest Hills students go on to Langford-Tutt Middle. At the high school level the zone is split: about three-fifths of the points we checked were zoned for the Academy of Richmond County and the rest for Westside High.
We found no rezoning approved by the Board of Education that changes this zone.
Calendar
From the district’s board-approved 2026-27 calendar (PDF):
- Thursday, Oct. 8: PowerUp asynchronous learning day; students learn on their own instead of in class
- Friday, Oct. 9: student holiday
- Oct. 12-13: fall break
- Wednesday, Nov. 11: Veterans Day holiday
- Nov. 23-27: Thanksgiving holiday
- Dec. 23 to Jan. 5: Christmas and winter break; the second semester begins Thursday, Jan. 7
- April 5-12, 2027: spring break
- Wednesday, May 26, 2027: last day of school, early release
Bell times
The district’s School Zone and Bus Stop Locator lists school hours of 7:25 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. for Lake Forest Hills Elementary. Bus stop times for any address are in the same tool, and the Transportation Department answers questions at 706-796-4777.
More
- The school’s website
- The state’s report card for Lake Forest Hills Elementary
- The district’s school directory, with every school’s principal, address and phone
- The district’s International Baccalaureate page
- Every public school that serves Augusta, with zones and scores: our Augusta public schools guide
- District calendar, registration and the Board of Education: our Augusta schools guide
Frequently asked questions
What grades does Lake Forest Hills Elementary serve?
Pre-kindergarten through fifth grade.
What is Lake Forest Hills Elementary’s CCRPI score?
58.1 in 2025, according to the state’s School Grades data, against an average of 78.6 for Georgia elementary schools.
Which high school does Lake Forest Hills Elementary feed into?
Langford-Tutt Middle, then the Academy of Richmond County or Westside High depending on the address, according to the district’s School Zone and Bus Stop Locator.
What time does Lake Forest Hills Elementary start?
7:25 a.m., with dismissal at 2:15 p.m., according to the district’s School Zone and Bus Stop Locator.
Who is the principal of Lake Forest Hills Elementary?
Lisa Hughey, according to the Richmond County School System’s school directory on Oct. 6, 2026.
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