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What's the one class at Sherwood Elementary School every student should take?
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Enrollment
689
Elementary
DISTRICT 597 · STATE 404
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FOREST HILLS LOCAL·NCES 390473402848
Sherwood Elementary School
7080 Grantham Way, Cincinnati, OH 45230 · (513) 231-7565 · Hamilton County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL689 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 91% of Ohio public elementary schools
- A+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.
- B-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Ohio public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
18.9:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.1:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
13%
89 students
DISTRICT 16% · STATE 43%
Community
1
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 | 170 | 25% |
| Kindergarten | 55 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 81 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 74 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 91 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 73 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 66 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 79 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (55) is 30% smaller than its 6th grade class (79).
Student demographics
32%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 29% · STATE 54% · 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
Sherwood Elementary School→Nagel Middle School
Based on grade levels within Forest Hills Local. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
90.5%
OH avg 59.8% . +0.6pp since 2021
Math
90.0%
OH avg 56.1% . +5.1pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 91 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 90 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2021, while math scores are up about 5 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 90.5% | 90.0% |
| 2023-24 | 90.0% | 88.0% |
| 2022-23 | 87.0% | 88.2% |
| 2021-22 | 89.9% | 84.8% |
% Proficient or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Ohio's State Tests. 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
89.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
83.9%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 89% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 84% typical for Ohio 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 Ohio'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 Sherwood Elementary School
Sherwood Elementary School's state test result (89.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sherwood Elementary School this school | 689 | 12.9% | 89.4% |
| Highland Elementary School Sylvania | 610 | 14.9% | 89.1% |
| Buckeye Valley West Elementary School Ostrander | 648 | 13.3% | 82.8% |
| Goldwood Primary Elementary School Rocky River | 575 | 14.8% | N/A |
| Sharon Elementary School Wadsworth | 627 | 8.9% | 90.6% |
| Ayer Elementary School Cincinnati | 595 | 16.3% | 86.8% |
Matched among Ohio 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 Sherwood Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Hamilton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 89.4% | #54 of 673 | #12 of 38 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 90.0% | #87 of 1,569 ▲ 36 | #12 of 104 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 90.5% | #42 of 1,569 ▲ 20 | #8 of 104 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.9pp | #765 of 1,514 | #66 of 99 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 689 | #157 of 1,808 | #16 of 120 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.9:1 | #1,068 of 1,582 | #73 of 103 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 32.2% | #880 of 1,590 | #69 of 104 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 12.9% | #700 of 767 | #33 of 40 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +10.8% | #283 of 561 | #22 of 36 |
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
689
+109 (+19%) vs 2020
+20% since 1990-91, when it was 574
Student : Teacher
18.9:1
was 18.7:1
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 | 689 | 36.6 | 18.9:1 | 13% (89) |
| 2023-24 | 722 | 34.1 | 21.2:1 | 14% (104) |
| 2022-23 | 709 | 37.7 | 18.8:1 | 9% (62) |
| 2020-21 | 580 | 31 | 18.7:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 622 | 31.8 | 19.6:1 | 8% (51) |
| 2015-16 | 532 | 26 | 20.5:1 | 10% (52) |
| 2010-11 | 586 | 29 | 20.2:1 | 11% (62) |
| 2000-01 | 576 | 31 | 18.6:1 | 3% (17) |
| 1990-91 | 574 | 32 | 17.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sherwood Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 11% (622 to 689); teachers up 15% (31.8 to 36.6).
About Sherwood Elementary School
Sherwood Elementary School is a large elementary school in Forest Hills Local, located in Cincinnati, Ohio. The school's 689 students are in pre-K through 6. Statewide, elementary schools in Ohio average about 404 students each.
Sherwood Elementary School belongs to Forest Hills Local, a district of 9 schools and 6,827 students.
White students make up 82% of enrollment at Sherwood Elementary School. Other students are 7% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 2% Asian, and 2% Black. That is higher than the 63% White share among all Hamilton County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 32% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Sherwood Elementary School employs 36.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 18.9:1. This ratio sits 1.0 above the 17.9:1 average for elementary schools in Ohio. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 13% in 2024-25. That is lower than the 34% average for public schools in Hamilton County.
Sherwood Elementary School is graded A by allk12, scoring above 91% of Ohio public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Sherwood Elementary School sits between the top and bottom 10% of Ohio schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate on state tests of 89.4% and a predicted 83.9%.
Among Hamilton County residents, the median household income is $72,470, roughly 42% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Sherwood Elementary School is one of 212 public schools in the county.
Anderson High School is the public school closest to Sherwood Elementary School, about 1.2 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Sherwood Elementary School is 2nd of 7 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
2024-25 enrollment was 689, a 19% rise from 580 in 2020-21.
Discussions about Sherwood Elementary School may include science fairs, picture day, and bus routes. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Hamilton County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
830,774
Census ACS
Median income
$72,470
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
212
111,403 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Forest Hills Local
- Anderson High SchoolHigh · 1,166 students
- Nagel Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,087 students
- Turpin High SchoolHigh · 991 students
- Wilson Elementary SchoolElementary · 635 students
- Mercer Elementary SchoolElementary · 611 students
- Ayer Elementary SchoolElementary · 595 students
Other schools in Cincinnati
- Walnut Hills High SchoolHigh · 2,453 students
- Oak Hills High SchoolHigh · 2,255 students
- West Clermont High SchoolHigh · 2,048 students
- Sycamore High SchoolHigh · 1,678 students
- Dohn CommunityHigh · 1,675 students
- Princeton High SchoolHigh · 1,619 students
Other Sherwood Elementary schools
17 other US public schools in 13 states are named Sherwood Elementary. Sherwood Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 18.
- Sherwood ElementarySalinas, CA · 859 students
- Sherwood ElementaryGastonia, NC · 553 students
- Sherwood Elementary SchoolSAGINAW, MI · 531 students
- Sherwood ElementaryMemphis, TN · 531 students
- Sherwood ElementarySandy Spring, MD · 498 students
Nearby schools
- Anderson High School1.2 mi · 1,166
- Sands Montessori School1.2 mi · 654
- Maddux Elementary School1.3 mi · 541
- Mercer Elementary School1.4 mi · 611
- Wilson Elementary School1.4 mi · 635
- Turpin High School1.5 mi · 991
Frequently asked questions
About Sherwood Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Sherwood Elementary School?
Sherwood Elementary School enrolls approximately 689 students in grades PK-06.
Is Sherwood Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Sherwood Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-06.
How many teachers does Sherwood Elementary School have?
Sherwood Elementary School employs 37 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.9:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Sherwood Elementary School?
At Sherwood Elementary School, the student body is approximately 82% White, 6% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Sherwood Elementary School in?
Sherwood Elementary School is part of Forest Hills Local.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.