Sherwood Elem School

Sherwood Elem School is an elementary school of small scale in Chicago, Illinois, overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, serveing 204 students in grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Sherwood Elem School sits 46% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, which oversees 622 schools and 324,396 students, Sherwood Elem School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Sherwood Elem School shows that nearly all students (86%) are Black; the rest reads as 11% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 90% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Sherwood Elem School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 19.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 16.5%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Cook County put the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Sherwood Elem School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Carter Elem School, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Sherwood Elem School at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 20.3%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sherwood Elem School has decreased 36%, going from 319 students in 2018 to 204 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 97% to 86% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 7.8:1 today.

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