Sherwood Middle Academic Academy

Located at 1020 Marlbrook Dr, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Sherwood Middle Academic Academy is a sizable junior high that teaches 759 students (grades 6 through 8), operated by East Baton Rouge Parish. That puts it 73% bigger than the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 440 students.

East Baton Rouge Parish comprises 83 schools with combined enrollment of 40,083 students; Sherwood Middle Academic Academy is among them.

On the student-mix side, Sherwood Middle Academic Academy lists that 43% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 28% White, 17% Asian, 9% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with East Baton Rouge Parish as a whole.

On the resource side, On paper, Sherwood Middle Academic Academy has 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 41.0:1 average. Roughly 50% of students at Sherwood Middle Academic Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against East Baton Rouge Parish (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Sherwood Middle Academic Academy ranks in the top 10% of Louisiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 48.5%; Sherwood Middle Academic Academy posts 72.0%, +23.5 points above that line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for East Baton Rouge Parish indicate median household income runs about $63,071, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Sherwood Middle Academic Academy is one of 132 public schools in East Baton Rouge Parish (combined enrollment of about 66,892 students).

Audubon Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Sherwood Middle Academic Academy comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 23.5%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 767 students in 2018 compared to 759 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 today.

On this page, members of the Sherwood Middle Academic Academy 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.