Sherwood Park Elementary

Sherwood Park Elementary operates as a cozy elementary campus in Fayetteville, North Carolina, run under Cumberland County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 335 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 28% below the state mean of about 467.

Cumberland County Schools runs 86 schools in total, collectively educating 49,002 students. Sherwood Park Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Sherwood Park Elementary logs that the largest single group is Black at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school records 19% Hispanic, 16% White, 13% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 38% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Sherwood Park Elementary has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Roughly 96% of students at Sherwood Park Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Cumberland County's rate of about 86%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Sherwood Park Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 57.9%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Cumberland County put median household income runs about $61,291, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cumberland County runs 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 50,815 students), of which Sherwood Park Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: J W Coon Elementary, around 1.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sherwood Park Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 45.6%.

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

Trend over the last 7 years. Sherwood Park Elementary's enrollment has fell 9% since 2018, when it stood at 368 (now 335). Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 in 2025.

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