Sherwood Elementary

Sherwood Elementary is one of the sprawling elementary-level communitys in Salinas, California, run under Salinas City Elementary, with 859 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. That puts it 85% larger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Sherwood Elementary is one of 15 schools operated by Salinas City Elementary, a district that instructs 8,236 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Sherwood Elementary lists that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The wider county runs roughly 62% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Sherwood Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 90% of students at Sherwood Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Monterey County runs at roughly 76%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Sherwood Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.7%; this one delivers 18.7%.

Around the school, census data for Monterey County shows the typical household earns roughly $97,230 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Sherwood Elementary is one of 153 public schools in Monterey County (combined enrollment of about 73,845 students).

El Sausal Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Sherwood Elementary comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 27.1%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. Sherwood Elementary's enrollment has decreased 8% since 2018, when it stood at 933 (now 859). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 24.6:1 in 2018 to 21.5:1 today.

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