SHERROD EL

Located at 2626 LINCOLN DR, in ARLINGTON, Texas, SHERROD EL is a medium-sized elementary school that works with 475 students (grades pre-K through 6), run under ARLINGTON ISD.

ARLINGTON ISD comprises 75 schools with combined enrollment of 53,394 students; SHERROD EL is among them.

On demographics, SHERROD EL records that 70% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school lists 19% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 5% White. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 18%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Tarrant County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, SHERROD EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.4%; this one delivers 24.3%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Tarrant County) shows that median household earnings sit near $84,207, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Tarrant County's 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), SHERROD EL is one campus in the mix.

TURNING POINT SECONDARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SHERROD EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SHERROD EL at 5th of 5; the average score across the group is 54.6%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SHERROD EL has contracted 29%, going from 665 students in 2018 to 475 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 57% to 70% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.