Sherwood Forest Elementary

As a mid-tier elementary-level community in Bellevue, Washington, Sherwood Forest Elementary caters to 415 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within Bellevue School District.

Sherwood Forest Elementary is one of 30 schools operated by Bellevue School District, a district that works with 20,339 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Sherwood Forest Elementary records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 42%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 23% White, 18% Asian, 8% Black, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 11% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.1:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 53% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above King County's rate of about 38%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Sherwood Forest Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 45.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 41.1%.

In the surrounding community, King County reports that median household earnings sit near $124,746, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, King County runs 544 public schools (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students), of which Sherwood Forest Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Interlake Senior High School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Sherwood Forest Elementary comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 57.6%.

Sherwood Forest Elementary operates from an inner-city location.

Over the past 7-year window. Sherwood Forest Elementary's enrollment has shrank 3% since 2018, when it stood at 428 (now 415). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 35% to 42%.

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