WAKEFIELD EL

WAKEFIELD EL, a cozy K-5 school in SHERMAN, Texas, overseen by SHERMAN ISD, instructs 324 students, covering grades K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so WAKEFIELD EL sits 38% leaner than that benchmark.

WAKEFIELD EL is one of 16 schools operated by SHERMAN ISD, a district that teaches 7,788 students overall.

Demographically, WAKEFIELD EL shows that the most-represented group is White (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 29% Hispanic, 13% Black, 10% multiracial, 6% Asian. By comparison, Grayson County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, WAKEFIELD EL reports 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting WAKEFIELD EL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 77% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Grayson County's rate of about 53%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WAKEFIELD EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.2%, the actual is 29.0%, a residual of -11.2 points.

In the broader community, census data for Grayson County shows the typical household earns roughly $72,182 per year, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Grayson County runs 68 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,915 students), of which WAKEFIELD EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: HENRY W SORY EL, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WAKEFIELD EL at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 37.2%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 7%: 349 students in 2018 compared to 324 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 20% to 29% across the same window.

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