SHERWOOD ELEM.

Set in CREIGHTON, Missouri, SHERWOOD ELEM. is a moderately sized primary school, operated by SHERWOOD CASS R-VIII. It works with 336 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 3 schools in SHERWOOD CASS R-VIII (733 students total), SHERWOOD ELEM. accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, SHERWOOD ELEM. logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). Beyond that, the school lists 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, SHERWOOD ELEM. has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. Roughly 46% of students at SHERWOOD ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Cass County's rate of about 35%.

After controlling for student poverty, SHERWOOD ELEM. tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 36.0%.

In the broader community, census data for Cass County shows median household earnings sit near $87,535, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Cass County's 44 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,093 students), SHERWOOD ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: SHERWOOD MIDDLE, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around SHERWOOD ELEM.. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SHERWOOD ELEM. at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 44.8%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Looking at the recent track record. SHERWOOD ELEM.'s enrollment has fell 17% since 2018, when it stood at 406 (now 336). Hispanic enrollment moved from 1% to 6% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 in 2025.

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