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How has Sherwood Elementary changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
491
Elementary
DISTRICT 462 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EDMONDS SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530240000360
Sherwood Elementary
22901 106TH AVE W, EDMONDS, WA 98020 · (425) 431-7460 · Snohomish County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL491 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.2:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
23%
112 students
DISTRICT 43% · STATE 51%
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 | 79 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 72 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 66 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 82 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 58 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 68 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 66 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (79) is 20% larger than its 6th grade class (66).
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 68% · 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
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
63.2%
WA avg 58.4% . -1.9pp since 2014
Math
60.1%
WA avg 51.2% . +2.4pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 2 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 63.2% | 60.1% |
| 2023-24 | 61.0% | 55.5% |
| 2022-23 | 62.9% | 58.6% |
| 2021-22 | 57.5% | 48.5% |
| 2018-19 | 66.4% | 61.6% |
| 2017-18 | 71.8% | 64.1% |
| 2016-17 | 61.5% | 58.8% |
| 2015-16 | 68.9% | 61.9% |
| 2014-15 | 65.0% | 57.7% |
% Met or Exceeded Standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Smarter Balanced + WCAS. 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
61.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.9%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% typical for Washington 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 Washington'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 Sherwood Elementary
Sherwood Elementary's state test result (61.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sherwood Elementary this school | 491 | 22.8% | 61.0% |
| Arbor Heights Elementary School SEATTLE | 495 | 23.4% | 59.1% |
| Seaview Elementary EDMONDS | 402 | 24.9% | 67.7% |
| Stillwater Elementary Carnation | 491 | 24.0% | 62.6% |
| Mountain Meadow Elementary Buckley | 443 | 27.1% | 80.9% |
| Poulsbo Elementary School Poulsbo | 487 | 27.1% | 69.3% |
Matched among Washington 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 Sherwood Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Snohomish County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 61.0% | #242 of 936 | #35 of 105 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 60.1% | #256 of 1,103 ▲ 78 | #32 of 106 ▲ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 63.2% | #245 of 1,102 ▲ 40 | #32 of 106 ▲ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +8.7pp | #114 of 928 | #8 of 105 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 491 | #317 of 1,268 | #59 of 118 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.9:1 | #791 of 1,085 | #73 of 109 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.0% | #720 of 1,088 | #85 of 110 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 22.8% | #1,005 of 1,169 | #92 of 114 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.9% | #607 of 778 | #44 of 68 |
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
491
-14 (-3%) vs 2020
+16% since 1990-91, when it was 422
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
was 14.8:1
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 | 491 | 29.1 | 16.9:1 | 23% (112) |
| 2023-24 | 489 | 28.9 | 16.9:1 | 23% (114) |
| 2022-23 | 444 | 26.7 | 16.6:1 | 22% (98) |
| 2020-21 | 505 | 34 | 14.8:1 | 21% (106) |
| 2017-18 | 533 | 28.5 | 18.7:1 | 25% (134) |
| 2015-16 | 476 | 24 | 19.8:1 | 25% (121) |
| 2010-11 | 436 | 22 | 19.8:1 | 17% (75) |
| 2000-01 | 428 | 20 | 21.4:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 422 | 22 | 19.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sherwood Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (533 to 491); teachers up 2% (28.5 to 29.1).
About Sherwood Elementary
Sherwood Elementary sits in EDMONDS, Washington, and is classified as an elementary school. The grade span is kindergarten through 6, and enrollment is 491 students. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Washington) has about 380 students.
Edmonds School District serves 20,955 students across 37 schools.
Sherwood Elementary is 67% White by enrollment. The remaining students are 14% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 5% Black, and 4% Asian. The county population is about 64% White, within a few points of the school. Pick two students at random and there is a 52% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Teacher staffing is 29.1 full-time equivalents, or about 16.9 students per teacher. For comparison, elementary schools in Washington average 17.3:1. About 23% of students, or 112, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 41% for public schools in Snohomish County.
Sherwood Elementary is 3.9 points below its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (61.0% versus 64.9%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Washington.
Across Snohomish County, the median household income is $111,246, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 38%, and about 6% of people live in poverty. In all, Snohomish County has 227 public schools and roughly 118,688 students.
The shortest distance from Sherwood Elementary to another public school is about 0.4 miles, to Edmonds Heights K-12. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. By average proficiency, Sherwood Elementary is 2nd among 6 schools close by.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Sherwood Elementary's enrollment declined from 505 in 2020-21 to 491 in 2024-25. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio rose from 14.8:1 to 16.9:1.
If you have questions about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news at Sherwood Elementary, you can post them here. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Snohomish County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
844,430
Census ACS
Median income
$111,246
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
227
118,688 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Edmonds School District
- Edmonds Woodway High SchoolHigh · 1,605 students
- Meadowdale High SchoolHigh · 1,491 students
- Mountlake Terrace High SchoolHigh · 1,456 students
- Lynnwood High SchoolHigh · 1,335 students
- Meadowdale Middle SchoolMiddle · 740 students
- Alderwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 679 students
Other schools in EDMONDS
- Edmonds Woodway High SchoolHigh · 1,605 students
- Madrona K-8 SchoolElementary · 636 students
- Edmonds Heights K-12Combined · 599 students
- Maplewood Parent CoopElementary · 476 students
- Westgate ElementaryElementary · 472 students
- Serene Lake ElementaryElementary · 455 students
Other Sherwood Elementary schools
17 other US public schools in 13 states are named Sherwood Elementary. Sherwood Elementary is the 9th largest of the 18.
- Sherwood ElementarySalinas, CA · 859 students
- Sherwood Elementary SchoolCincinnati, OH · 689 students
- Sherwood ElementaryGastonia, NC · 553 students
- Sherwood Elementary SchoolSAGINAW, MI · 531 students
- Sherwood ElementaryMemphis, TN · 531 students
Nearby schools
- Edmonds Heights K-120.4 mi · 599
- Scriber Lake High School0.4 mi · 197
- Westgate Elementary0.8 mi · 472
- Madrona K-8 School0.9 mi · 636
- Melvin G Syre Elementary1.3 mi · 444
- Albert Einstein Middle School1.5 mi · 1,032
Frequently asked questions
About Sherwood ElementaryHow many students attend Sherwood Elementary?
Sherwood Elementary enrolls approximately 491 students in grades KG-06.
Is Sherwood Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Sherwood Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
How many teachers does Sherwood Elementary have?
Sherwood Elementary employs 29 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Sherwood Elementary?
Student demographics at Sherwood Elementary are roughly 67% White, 14% Hispanic, 5% Black, 4% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Who oversees Sherwood Elementary?
Sherwood Elementary is overseen by Edmonds School District in Snohomish County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.