Sherman Elementary

Located at 301 22nd St., in San Diego, California, Sherman Elementary is an average-sized elementary school that serves 535 students (grades K through 5), run under San Diego Unified.

San Diego Unified comprises 174 schools with combined enrollment of 94,828 students; Sherman Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Sherman Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (87%). Beyond that, the school reports 5% Black, 4% White, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 35% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 24.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 85% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, San Diego County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Sherman Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 28.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 36.7%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (San Diego County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $106,268 per year, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Sherman Elementary is one of 766 public schools in San Diego County (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students).

The closest other public school is Monarch, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Sherman Elementary comes 1st of 4 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 17.9%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 21%: 678 students in 2018 compared to 535 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 26.1:1 in 2018 to 24.4:1 today.

Inside the community feed, members of the Sherman Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.