SHERWOOD EL

SHERWOOD EL operates as a close-knit elementary campus in HOUSTON, Texas, one of the schools within SPRING BRANCH ISD. Current enrollment sits at 437 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

SPRING BRANCH ISD runs 46 schools in total, collectively educating 33,793 students. SHERWOOD EL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, SHERWOOD EL lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 69% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 16% White, 9% Black, 3% Asian, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.3:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 61% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, SHERWOOD EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.2%, the actual is 35.4%, a residual of -11.8 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Harris County put the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. SHERWOOD EL is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).

The closest other public school is WILCHESTER EL, roughly 1.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SHERWOOD EL. On composite proficiency, SHERWOOD EL comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 59.8%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. SHERWOOD EL's enrollment has declined 4% since 2018, when it stood at 456 (now 437).

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