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Enrollment
424
Elementary
DISTRICT 357 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PULASKI COUNTY SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 051185000939
SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
307 VERONA AVENUE, SHERWOOD, AR 72120 · (501) 833-1150 · Pulaski County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL424 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 56% of Arkansas public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Arkansas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
19.1:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.0:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
47%
198 students
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 70%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 67 | 16% |
| Kindergarten | 71 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 64 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 56 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 67 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 48 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 51 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (71) is 39% larger than its 5th grade class (51).
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · STATE 61% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
43.7%
AR avg 34.9% . -6.7pp since 2023
Math
41.1%
AR avg 38.9% . +7.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 41 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 35 and 39. Reading and writing scores are down about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 43.7% | 41.1% |
| 2023-24 | 50.4% | 33.8% |
% Proficient (Level 3+4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: ATLAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
42.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.5%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% typical for Arkansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Arkansas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (42.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 424 | 46.7% | 42.6% |
| BOBBY G LESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 421 | 45.1% | 23.6% |
| SYLVAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SHERWOOD | 516 | 48.8% | 39.1% |
| PINE FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MAUMELLE | 371 | 54.7% | 29.8% |
| CAROLYN LEWIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CONWAY | 514 | 54.5% | 51.2% |
| OAKBROOKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SHERWOOD | 408 | 57.1% | 30.3% |
Matched among Arkansas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Pulaski County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 42.6% | #152 of 461 | #13 of 63 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 41.1% | #201 of 465 ▲ 49 | #13 of 63 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.7% | #131 of 465 ▼ 63 | #12 of 63 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 424 | #247 of 531 | #28 of 72 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.1:1 | #438 of 480 | #59 of 65 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.1% | #79 of 480 | #13 of 65 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 46.7% | #438 of 513 | #60 of 69 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +25.4% | #22 of 138 | #4 of 14 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
424
+99 (+30%) vs 2020
-5% since 1990-91, when it was 448
Student : Teacher
19.1:1
was 15.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 424 | 22.3 | 19.1:1 | 47% (198) |
| 2023-24 | 405 | 21.3 | 19.0:1 | 47% (191) |
| 2022-23 | 368 | 21.5 | 17.1:1 | 48% (176) |
| 2020-21 | 325 | 21 | 15.5:1 | 44% (144) |
| 2017-18 | 338 | 21.8 | 15.5:1 | 33% (111) |
| 2015-16 | 351 | 20 | 17.6:1 | 66% (233) |
| 2010-11 | 356 | 21 | 16.9:1 | 60% (212) |
| 2000-01 | 376 | 22 | 17.1:1 | 41% (156) |
| 1990-91 | 448 | 24 | 18.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a medium-sized elementary school in SHERWOOD, Arkansas. It educates 424 students in pre-K through 5.
SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is run by PULASKI COUNTY SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, whose 26 schools enroll 12,586 students.
Enrollment at SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is mixed, with Black students the largest group at 43%. It is also 41% White, 8% multiracial, and 7% Hispanic. SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a diversity index of 64%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL counts 22.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 19.1 students for each one. Among elementary schools in Arkansas, the typical ratio is 16.0:1. About 47% of enrolled students meet the income rules for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Pulaski County, the average is 71%.
allk12 grades SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL a B. The grade compares the school only with Arkansas public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Compared with Arkansas schools that have similar shares of low-income students, SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's results are within a point of predicted: 42.6% against 42.5%.
Pulaski County has these Census figures: median household income is about $62,873, about 38% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 13%. SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among the 133 public schools in Pulaski County.
LISA ACADEMY NORTH HIGH SCHOOL is the closest public school, about 1.1 miles away in a straight line. SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Nearby schools with test data average 34.4% proficiency; SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 42.6%.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count grew from 325 to 424. Students per teacher rose from 15.5 in 2020-21 to 19.1 in 2024-25.
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Pulaski County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
399,818
Census ACS
Median income
$62,873
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
133
64,124 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PULASKI COUNTY SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SYLVAN HILLS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,120 students
- JOE T. ROBINSON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,030 students
- MAUMELLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 869 students
- SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 772 students
- SYLVAN HILLS JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 721 students
- MILLS UNIVERSITY STUDIES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 612 students
Other schools in SHERWOOD
- SYLVAN HILLS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,120 students
- SYLVAN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 772 students
- SYLVAN HILLS JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 721 students
- LISA ACADEMY NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 654 students
- WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 586 students
- SYLVAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 516 students
Other Sherwood Elementary schools
17 other US public schools in 13 states are named Sherwood Elementary. SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 13th largest of the 18.
- Sherwood ElementarySalinas, CA · 859 students
- Sherwood Elementary SchoolCincinnati, OH · 689 students
- Sherwood ElementaryGastonia, NC · 553 students
- Sherwood Elementary SchoolSAGINAW, MI · 531 students
- Sherwood ElementaryMemphis, TN · 531 students
Nearby schools
- LISA ACADEMY NORTH HIGH SCHOOL1.1 mi · 292
- LISA ACADEMY NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL1.1 mi · 353
- LISA ACADEMY NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 654
- WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 586
- INDIAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 398
- OAKBROOKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 408
Frequently asked questions
About SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 424 students in grades PK-05.
Is SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 22 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.1:1.
How diverse is SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 41% White, 7% Hispanic, 43% Black, 1% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by PULASKI COUNTY SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in Pulaski County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.