Forest Hills High School (New York) families deemed eligible for HRA assistance, while 3% were classified as living in temporary housing. Forest Hills High School (New York) Forest Hills High School (FHHS) is a high school in the Forest Hills neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens, near Rego Park. Dedicated in 1937, it educates students in grades 9–12 and is operated by the New York City Department of Education. The school serves the Forest Hills and Rego Park neighborhoods of Queens. However, many students come from nearby neighborhoods such as Kew Gardens, Jackson Heights, Woodside, Flushing, Elmhurst, East Elmhurst, Astoria, Corona, Glendale and
Jackson Heights, Queens to move in by the 1940s and blacks by 1968. Beginning in the 1960s, an influx of newly immigrated residents came into Jackson Heights, at the same time that existing residents were leaving for suburbs due to white flight. Hispanic immigrants moved in by the 1970s. By then, white residents who remained in the neighborhood wished to eliminate the stigma of Jackson Heights being an ethnically diverse neighborhood, often defining its border as Roosevelt Avenue, because crime had started to increase in the area. By the mid-1970s, South American organized crime groups in Jackson Heights, often peddling drugs, gained national