SHERMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in OMAHA, Nebraska, SHERMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a reasonably sized elementary campus, part of OMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS. It caters to 257 students across grades pre-K through 5.

OMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS runs 94 schools in total, collectively educating 52,524 students. SHERMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, SHERMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 68% of enrollment. Other groups include 14% White, 7% Black, 6% multiracial, 3% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 15% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.0:1 average.

Around the school, Douglas County reports that median household earnings sit near $80,391, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Douglas County runs 207 public schools (combined enrollment of about 98,640 students), of which SHERMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

MILLER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SHERMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SHERMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has climbed 15%, going from 224 students in 2018 to 257 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 32% to 14%. Class-load math has grew: from 11.4:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.

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