HENRY W SORY EL

HENRY W SORY EL is one of the mid-sized elementary campuss in SHERMAN, Texas, operated by SHERMAN ISD, with 619 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Across the 16 schools in SHERMAN ISD (7,788 students total), HENRY W SORY EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, HENRY W SORY EL records that the largest single group is White at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 29% Hispanic, 11% Black, 9% multiracial, 8% Asian. By comparison, Grayson County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 55% of students at HENRY W SORY EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HENRY W SORY EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 39.2%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Grayson County put the typical household earns roughly $72,182 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Grayson County runs 68 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,915 students), of which HENRY W SORY EL is one.

WAKEFIELD EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HENRY W SORY EL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 35.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HENRY W SORY EL has changed only slightly, going from 622 students in 2018 to 619 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment grew from 3% to 8% over that span.

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