Sherwood High School

Sherwood High School is one of the well-populated four-year high schools in Sherwood, Oregon, part of Sherwood SD 88J, with 1,668 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 165% above the state mean of about 630.

Sherwood SD 88J runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 4,797 students. Sherwood High School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Sherwood High School logs that 74% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school records 13% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 64% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school employs 73 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.8:1, putting Sherwood High School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 19% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Washington County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Sherwood High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.1%, the actual is 42.7%, a residual of -12.4 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Washington County put the typical household earns roughly $107,772 per year, about 48% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Washington County's 136 public schools (combined enrollment of about 79,469 students), Sherwood High School is one campus in the mix.

Middleton Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sherwood High School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 56.4%.

Sherwood High School operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sherwood High School has fell 3%, going from 1,721 students in 2018 to 1,668 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 80% to 74% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 23.7:1 in 2018 to 22.7:1 in 2025.

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