Enrollment
234
Elementary
DISTRICT 207 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SHERMAN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362673004940
SHERMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
127 PARK ST, SHERMAN, NY 14781 · (716) 761-6121 · Chautauqua County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL234 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 53% of New York public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
8.6:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 8.5:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
54%
126 students
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 24 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 26 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 34 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 28 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 24 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 34 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 29 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 35 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (26) is 26% smaller than its 6th grade class (35).
Student demographics
8%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 8% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
SHERMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→SHERMAN HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within SHERMAN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
56.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +14.0pp since 2023
Math
58.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +6.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 14 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 56.0% | 58.0% |
| 2023-24 | 42.0% | 52.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
51.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like SHERMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SHERMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (51.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHERMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 234 | 53.8% | 51.9% |
| BERLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BERLIN | 256 | 51.6% | 46.7% |
| GRANVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GRANVILLE | 266 | 52.3% | 29.5% |
| AFTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AFTON | 210 | 55.7% | 31.4% |
| HARVEY C FENNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FALCONER | 222 | 56.3% | 36.0% |
| AUSABLE FORKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AU SABLE FORKS | 229 | 49.8% | 37.5% |
Matched among New York elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where SHERMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Chautauqua County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.9% | #1,084 of 2,335 | #6 of 21 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.0% | #1,159 of 2,342 ▲ 68 | #7 of 21 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.0% | #1,118 of 2,343 ▲ 86 | #4 of 21 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 234 | #2,282 of 2,585 | #17 of 26 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.6:1 | #116 of 2,338 | #6 of 21 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 8.3% | #2,328 of 2,388 | #20 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 53.8% | #1,300 of 2,534 | #14 of 26 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.0% | #435 of 606 | N/A |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
234
-9 (-4%) vs 2020
-11% since 2010-11, when it was 264
Student : Teacher
8.6:1
was 11.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 234 | 27.3 | 8.6:1 | 54% (126) |
| 2023-24 | 233 | 26.8 | 8.7:1 | 54% (126) |
| 2022-23 | 238 | 25.7 | 9.3:1 | 55% (130) |
| 2020-21 | 243 | 21 | 11.6:1 | 53% (130) |
| 2017-18 | 225 | 20 | 11.3:1 | 60% (136) |
| 2015-16 | 203 | 18 | 11.3:1 | 63% (127) |
| 2010-11 | 264 | 28 | 9.4:1 | 59% (155) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SHERMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About SHERMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
In SHERMAN, New York, SHERMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a low-enrollment elementary school. It offers pre-K through 6 and has 234 students enrolled. Elementary schools in New York have about 443 students on average; enrollment here is 47% lower.
A total of 2 schools make up SHERMAN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 414 students enrolled.
SHERMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 96% White by enrollment. The rest of enrollment is 3% Hispanic. Census estimates put the White share of Chautauqua County's population at about 86%. The diversity index for SHERMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 8%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Teacher count: 27.3 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 8.6:1. Compared with the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York, this school's ratio is lower. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 54%.
SHERMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds a B- allk12 Grade, placing it above 53% of New York public elementary schools.
On BeatsExpectations, SHERMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 3.3 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of New York schools.
Chautauqua County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $58,351 a year, roughly 25% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Chautauqua County number 51, with about 17,056 students.
Of the public schools around it, SHERMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is closest to SHERMAN HIGH SCHOOL, less than a tenth of a mile away. There are 7 other public schools within ten miles. Local comparison: SHERMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 8th of 9 nearby schools, at 51.9% versus a 62.1% average.
Federal records code the school's setting as Rural: Distant.
The school's student count decreased 4% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. By 2024-25, the school had 8.6 students per teacher, compared with 11.6 in 2020-21.
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Chautauqua County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
125,544
Census ACS
Median income
$58,351
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
51
17,056 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SHERMAN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SHERMAN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 180 students
Other Sherman Elementary schools
16 other US public schools in 13 states are named Sherman Elementary. SHERMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 14th largest of the 17.
- Sherman Elementary SchoolMansfield, OH · 613 students
- Sherman Elementary SchoolSherman, IL · 552 students
- Sherman ElementarySan Diego, CA · 535 students
- Sherman ElementaryEau Claire, WI · 502 students
- SHERMAN ELEMENTARYNAMPA, ID · 468 students
Nearby schools
- SHERMAN HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 180
- CHAUTAUQUA LAKE SECONDARY SCHOOL7.8 mi · 372
- CHAUTAUQUA LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL7.8 mi · 301
- PANAMA K-6 SCHOOL8.0 mi · 213
- PANAMA HIGH SCHOOL8.0 mi · 189
- RIPLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL9.5 mi · 147
Frequently asked questions
About SHERMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is SHERMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SHERMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 234 students in grades PK-06.
What age range does SHERMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
SHERMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at SHERMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at SHERMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 8.6:1 (27 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at SHERMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at SHERMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 96% White, 3% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Two or more.
What district is SHERMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
SHERMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of SHERMAN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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