SHERIDAN HILLS ELEMENTARY

SHERIDAN HILLS ELEMENTARY operates as a mid-tier primary school in RICHFIELD, Minnesota, run under RICHFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 406 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 10 schools in RICHFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT (4,094 students total), SHERIDAN HILLS ELEMENTARY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, SHERIDAN HILLS ELEMENTARY logs that the most-represented group is White (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 25% Hispanic, 19% Black, 7% multiracial, 5% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 66% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, SHERIDAN HILLS ELEMENTARY has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.0:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 48% of students at SHERIDAN HILLS ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, SHERIDAN HILLS ELEMENTARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 36.3%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Hennepin County indicate median household earnings sit near $97,653, 54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Hennepin County runs 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), of which SHERIDAN HILLS ELEMENTARY is one.

The closest other public school is Project SEARCH, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SHERIDAN HILLS ELEMENTARY. On composite proficiency, SHERIDAN HILLS ELEMENTARY comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 59.8%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SHERIDAN HILLS ELEMENTARY has edged down 20%, going from 508 students in 2018 to 406 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged up from 34% to 41% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

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