Sherwood Elementary

Sherwood Elementary is one of the moderately sized K-5 schools in Sandy Spring, Maryland, run under Montgomery County Public Schools, with 498 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Sherwood Elementary is one of 208 schools operated by Montgomery County Public Schools, a district that educates 159,181 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Sherwood Elementary lists that 37% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder reads as 23% Hispanic, 21% Black, 11% Asian, 7% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Sherwood Elementary lists 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 26% of students at Sherwood Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Montgomery County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Sherwood Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 59.0%; actual is 44.1%, a gap of -14.9 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Montgomery County indicate median household earnings sit near $132,450, roughly 61% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Sherwood Elementary is one of 211 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 159,181 students).

The closest other public school is Sherwood High, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sherwood Elementary. On composite proficiency, Sherwood Elementary comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 57.0%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 493 students in 2018 compared to 498 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 18% to 23% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

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