Sherman Elementary School

Sherman Elementary School is a primary school of medium-sized scale in ROSELLE PARK, New Jersey, one of the schools within Roselle Park Public School District, caters to 364 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Roselle Park Public School District comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,007 students; Sherman Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Sherman Elementary School shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 29% White, 11% Black, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 35% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Sherman Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 40% of students at Sherman Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Union County's rate of about 52%.

With demographic context factored in, Sherman Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.5%; this one delivers 49.0%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Union County indicate the typical household earns roughly $103,202 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Union County runs 180 public schools (combined enrollment of about 99,046 students), of which Sherman Elementary School is one.

Victor Mravlag School No. 21 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sherman Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Sherman Elementary School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 34.4%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sherman Elementary School has decreased 4%, going from 379 students in 2018 to 364 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 47% to 53%. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 in 2025.

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