Sherwood Global Studies Academy

Sherwood Global Studies Academy is one of the very small primary schools in GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, part of Grand Rapids Public Schools, with 121 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 369 students per school, that is 67% smaller than typical.

Grand Rapids Public Schools comprises 50 schools with combined enrollment of 13,903 students; Sherwood Global Studies Academy is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Sherwood Global Studies Academy lists that the largest single group is Black, at 58% of enrollment; the rest looks like 24% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 7% White, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 10% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.6:1. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 77% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Kent County (around 47%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Kent County shows median household earnings sit near $82,631, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Sherwood Global Studies Academy is one of 239 public schools in Kent County (combined enrollment of about 97,253 students).

Excel Charter Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sherwood Global Studies Academy.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Sherwood Global Studies Academy's enrollment has contracted 64% since 2018, when it stood at 333 (now 121). Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 64% to 58%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 today.

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