Enrollment
204
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993001087
Sherwood Elementary School
245 W 57th St, Chicago, IL 60621 · (773) 535-0829 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL204 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
7.8:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
90%
183 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 56%
Community
0
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 | 42 | 21% |
| Kindergarten | 16 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 14 | 7% |
| Grade 2 | 21 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 15 | 7% |
| Grade 4 | 12 | 6% |
| Grade 5 | 25 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 20 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 18 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 21 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (16) is 24% smaller than its 8th grade class (21).
Student demographics
25%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 69% · 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
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
23.7%
IL avg 51.0% . +10.1pp since 2023
Math
14.2%
IL avg 37.9% . +5.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 14 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 23.7% | 14.2% |
| 2023-24 | 13.6% | 9.1% |
% Proficient (Levels 4-5), all students and all tested grades.
Source: IAR + ISA. 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
16.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
19.7%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 16% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 20% typical for Illinois 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 Illinois'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 (16.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sherwood Elementary School this school | 204 | 89.7% | 16.5% |
| King Academy of Social Justice Chicago | 213 | 87.8% | 9.7% |
| Hefferan Elementary School Chicago | 214 | 89.3% | 9.2% |
| Penn Elementary School Chicago | 218 | 85.3% | 9.3% |
| Avalon Park Elementary School Chicago | 225 | 85.8% | 18.8% |
| Elizabeth Morris Elementary School Cahokia | 246 | 89.0% | 9.7% |
Matched among Illinois 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 Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 16.5% | #1,717 of 1,925 | #637 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 14.2% | #1,764 of 2,077 ▼ 102 | #625 of 829 ▼ 46 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 23.7% | #1,844 of 2,077 ▼ 32 | #718 of 829 ▼ 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 204 | #2,032 of 2,419 | #816 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 7.8:1 | #11 of 2,035 | #6 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 25.1% | #1,498 of 2,042 | #556 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 89.7% | #286 of 2,132 | #207 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -36.1% | #89 of 1,461 | #60 of 661 |
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
204
-45 (-18%) vs 2020
-52% since 1990-91, when it was 428
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 | 204 | 26 | 7.8:1 | 90% (183) |
| 2023-24 | 208 | 22.5 | 9.2:1 | 95% (198) |
| 2022-23 | 200 | 23 | 8.7:1 | 94% (188) |
| 2020-21 | 249 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 319 | 19.3 | 16.5:1 | 99% (317) |
| 2015-16 | 345 | 22 | 15.7:1 | 98% (339) |
| 2010-11 | 386 | 21 | 18.4:1 | 99% (383) |
| 2000-01 | 498 | 23 | 21.6:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 428 | 23 | 18.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sherwood Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 36% (319 to 204); teachers up 35% (19.3 to 26).
About Sherwood Elementary School
Families in Chicago, Illinois, are served by Sherwood Elementary School, a small elementary school. Total enrollment is 204 students, and the grades served are pre-K through 8. It has 46% fewer students than the average for elementary schools in Illinois (about 381).
Sherwood Elementary School is one of the 622 schools that make up Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 (324,396 students in total).
The share of students at Sherwood Elementary School who are Black is 86%. Enrollment also includes 11% Hispanic. Among people living in Cook County, the Black share is about 22%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 25, compared with 70 nationally.
Its ratio of 7.8:1 is based on 26 full-time-equivalent teachers. Elementary schools in Illinois have an average ratio of 13.9:1. In all, 90% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is above the 66% average among public schools in Cook County.
Sherwood Elementary School scores 16.5% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 19.7%.
In Cook County, where the school is located, the median household earns about $83,498 a year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Cook County number 1,406, with about 697,934 students.
Carter Elementary School sits about 0.4 miles from Sherwood Elementary School. Sherwood Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. The nearest schools with test data average 20.3%, higher than Sherwood Elementary School's 16.5%.
Federal data place Sherwood Elementary School in the City: Large locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell 18%.
Sherwood Elementary School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
Cook County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
5,182,090
Census ACS
Median income
$83,498
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,406
697,934 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299
- Lane Technical High SchoolHigh · 4,604 students
- Taft High SchoolHigh · 4,487 students
- Curie Metropolitan High SchoolHigh · 3,099 students
- Kenwood Academy High SchoolHigh · 2,268 students
- Young Magnet High SchoolHigh · 2,223 students
- Lincoln Park High SchoolHigh · 2,214 students
Other schools in Chicago
- Lane Technical High SchoolHigh · 4,604 students
- Taft High SchoolHigh · 4,487 students
- Curie Metropolitan High SchoolHigh · 3,099 students
- Kenwood Academy High SchoolHigh · 2,268 students
- Young Magnet High SchoolHigh · 2,223 students
- Lincoln Park High SchoolHigh · 2,214 students
Other Sherwood Elementary schools
17 other US public schools in 13 states are named Sherwood Elementary. Sherwood Elementary School is the 18th largest of the 18.
- Sherwood Elementary SchoolHighland Park, IL · 342 students
- Sherwood ElementarySalinas, CA · 859 students
- Sherwood Elementary SchoolCincinnati, OH · 689 students
- Sherwood ElementaryGastonia, NC · 553 students
- Sherwood Elementary SchoolSAGINAW, MI · 531 students
Nearby schools
- Carter Elementary School0.4 mi · 279
- KIPP Chicago Chrtrs Bloom Campus0.5 mi · 921
- Urban Prep Chtr Academy Englewood High School0.6 mi · 87
- Dewey Elementary Academy of Fine Arts0.6 mi · 272
- Beasley Elementary Magnet Academic Center0.7 mi · 1,119
- CICS - Washington Pk Campus0.7 mi · 493
Frequently asked questions
About Sherwood Elementary SchoolHow large is Sherwood Elementary School?
Sherwood Elementary School enrolls approximately 204 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does Sherwood Elementary School serve?
Sherwood Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Sherwood Elementary School?
Approximately 7.8:1 students per teacher at Sherwood Elementary School.
How diverse is Sherwood Elementary School?
Sherwood Elementary School reports a student body of 1% White, 11% Hispanic, 86% Black, 2% Two or more.
Is Sherwood Elementary School public or private?
Sherwood Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
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