Sherman Elementary School

Located at 7487 Coal River Road, in Comfort, West Virginia, Sherman Elementary School is a cozy K-5 school that educates 234 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Boone County Schools.

Sherman Elementary School is one of 12 schools operated by Boone County Schools, a district that teaches 3,048 students overall.

Demographically, Sherman Elementary School logs that 97% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.9:1 average.

Around the school, census data for Boone County shows the typical household earns roughly $57,093 per year, roughly 12% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Boone County's 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,048 students), Sherman Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Sherman Junior High School, around 1.1 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Sherman Elementary School operates from a low-density location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 31%: 337 students in 2018 compared to 234 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 in 2025.

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