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What's the most underrated thing about Sheridan El Sch that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
591
Elementary
DISTRICT 497 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ALLENTOWN CITY SD·NCES 420228006448
Sheridan Elementary School
521 N 2nd St, Allentown, PA 18102 · (484) 765-4881 · Lehigh County
GRADES 01–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL591 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 8% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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 Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.4:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.5:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
97%
574 students
DISTRICT 102% · STATE 75%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 16 | 3% |
| Grade 1 | 131 | 22% |
| Grade 2 | 116 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 114 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 98 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 116 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (16) is 86% smaller than its 5th grade class (116).
Student demographics
43%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 43% · STATE 59% · 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
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
12.4%
PA avg 51.1% . -6.1pp since 2023
Math
17.6%
PA avg 43.0% . +3.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 12 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 12.4% | 17.6% |
| 2023-24 | 18.5% | 14.3% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. 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
19.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.0%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 19% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% typical for Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania'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 Sheridan Elementary School
Sheridan Elementary School's state test result (19.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sheridan Elementary School this school | 591 | 97.1% | 19.2% |
| Roosevelt Elementary School Allentown | 631 | 98.4% | 19.9% |
| Muhlenberg Elementary School Allentown | 606 | 97.5% | 31.2% |
| Dodson Elementary School Wilkes Barre | 522 | 92.5% | 29.1% |
| Sixteenth & Haak Elementary School Reading | 527 | 98.7% | 26.9% |
| Donegan Elementary School Bethlehem | 467 | 92.5% | 20.6% |
Matched among Pennsylvania 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 Sheridan Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Lehigh County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 19.2% | #1,299 of 1,396 | #40 of 43 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.6% | #1,316 of 1,511 ▲ 16 | #40 of 45 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 12.4% | #1,464 of 1,511 ▼ 48 | #43 of 45 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 591 | #276 of 1,638 | #10 of 50 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.4:1 | #1,425 of 1,528 | #45 of 48 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.9% | #695 of 1,531 | #35 of 48 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 97.1% | #497 of 1,600 | #18 of 48 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.9% | #742 of 1,045 | #13 of 23 |
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
591
-18 (-3%) vs 2020
-2% since 1990-91, when it was 601
Student : Teacher
16.4:1
was 17.9:1
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 | 591 | 36 | 16.4:1 | 97% (574) |
| 2023-24 | 574 | 35.9 | 16.0:1 | 100% (574) |
| 2022-23 | 560 | 35.5 | 15.8:1 | 100% (560) |
| 2020-21 | 609 | 34 | 17.9:1 | 100% (609) |
| 2017-18 | 642 | 32.5 | 19.8:1 | 100% (642) |
| 2015-16 | 661 | 34 | 19.4:1 | 77% (509) |
| 2010-11 | 627 | 36 | 17.4:1 | 97% (609) |
| 2000-01 | 658 | 33 | 19.9:1 | 86% (567) |
| 1990-91 | 601 | 35 | 17.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sheridan Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (642 to 591); teachers up 11% (32.5 to 36).
About Sheridan Elementary School
Sheridan Elementary School runs as a medium-sized elementary school in Allentown, Pennsylvania. A federal count lists 591 students at the school, in grades 1 through 5. Average enrollment for elementary schools in Pennsylvania is about 443, so this school runs 33% bigger than that.
Allentown City SD oversees Sheridan Elementary School and 22 other schools, with 16,674 students in total.
Sheridan Elementary School's enrollment is 74% Hispanic. The remaining shares are 10% Black, 8% White, and 8% multiracial. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Lehigh County's population at about 28%. Sheridan Elementary School has a diversity index of 43%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The school has about 16.4 students per teacher and 36 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average ratio among elementary schools in Pennsylvania is 13.1:1, lower than at this school. About 97% of enrolled students meet the income rules for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is above the 70% average among public schools in Lehigh County.
The allk12 Grade for Sheridan Elementary School is D. Compared with Pennsylvania public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 8% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
The model predicts 36.0% for a school in Pennsylvania with Sheridan Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Sheridan Elementary School posts 19.2%.
Lehigh County has about 378,792 residents, and median household income is about $80,079, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 8% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 83 public schools in Lehigh County, with a combined enrollment of about 56,984.
The nearest other public school, Harrison-Morton Middle School, is about 0.4 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Sheridan Elementary School is 5th of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
In the federal locale system, Sheridan Elementary School is coded City: Mid-size, for schools inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Federal counts put enrollment at 609 in 2020-21 and 591 in 2024-25, a 3% decrease. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (16.4:1) than in 2020-21 (17.9:1).
Community posts for Sheridan Elementary School can cover science fairs, picture day, and bus routes. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Lehigh County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
378,792
Census ACS
Median income
$80,079
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
83
56,984 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Allentown City SD
- William Allen High SchoolHigh · 3,074 students
- Louis E Dieruff High SchoolHigh · 1,914 students
- South Mountain Middle SchoolMiddle · 972 students
- Francis D Raub Middle SchoolMiddle · 876 students
- Brigadier General Anna Mae Hays Elementary SchoolElementary · 807 students
- Trexler Middle SchoolMiddle · 771 students
Other schools in Allentown
- Parkland High SchoolHigh · 3,279 students
- William Allen High SchoolHigh · 3,074 students
- Louis E Dieruff High SchoolHigh · 1,914 students
- Executive Education Academy CSCombined · 1,497 students
- Springhouse Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,329 students
- Lincoln Leadership Academy CSCombined · 973 students
Other Sheridan Elementary schools
15 other US public schools in 11 states are named Sheridan Elementary. Sheridan Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 16.
- Sheridan Elementary SchoolKATY, TX · 919 students
- Sheridan Elementary SchoolSheridan, IN · 555 students
- Sheridan Elementary SchoolTacoma, WA · 525 students
- SHERIDAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSHERIDAN, AR · 523 students
- Sheridan ElementaryOrangeburg, SC · 450 students
Nearby schools
- Harrison-Morton Middle School0.4 mi · 704
- Executive Education Academy CS0.8 mi · 1,497
- Roberto Clemente CS0.8 mi · 619
- Central Elementary School0.9 mi · 694
- Washington Elementary School0.9 mi · 362
- Arts Academy Elementary CS1.0 mi · 425
Frequently asked questions
About Sheridan Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Sheridan Elementary School?
Sheridan Elementary School enrolls approximately 591 students in grades 01-05.
What grades does Sheridan Elementary School serve?
Sheridan Elementary School serves grades 01-05.
How many teachers does Sheridan Elementary School have?
Sheridan Elementary School employs 36 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.4:1.
How diverse is Sheridan Elementary School?
Sheridan Elementary School reports a student body of 8% White, 74% Hispanic, 10% Black, 0% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Sheridan Elementary School?
Sheridan Elementary School is overseen by Allentown City SD in Lehigh County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.