Sherwood Acres Elementary School

Located at 2201 Doncaster Dr, in Albany, Georgia, Sherwood Acres Elementary School is a moderately sized elementary school that educates 630 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by Dougherty County.

Within Dougherty County, which oversees 22 schools and 13,241 students, Sherwood Acres Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Sherwood Acres Elementary School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (85%). Other groups include 7% Hispanic, 5% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Dougherty County as a whole is about 71% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Sherwood Acres Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.7%; this one delivers 35.3%.

In the broader community, Dougherty County reports that median household earnings sit near $49,044, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 19%. Sherwood Acres Elementary School is one of 22 public schools in Dougherty County (combined enrollment of about 13,241 students).

Lake Park Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sherwood Acres Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Sherwood Acres Elementary School at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 36.0%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Sherwood Acres Elementary School's enrollment has fell 14% since 2018, when it stood at 736 (now 630). Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 in 2025.

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