Sheridan Elementary

As a mid-sized elementary school in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, Sheridan Elementary educates 286 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by Sheboygan Area School District.

Sheboygan Area School District comprises 26 schools with combined enrollment of 9,285 students; Sheridan Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Sheridan Elementary logs that 84% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest reads as 10% White, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 8% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Sheridan Elementary records 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.9:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 78% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Sheboygan County's rate of about 45%.

With demographic context factored in, Sheridan Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 29.8%; this one delivers 29.8%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Sheboygan County put median household earnings sit near $73,094, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Sheboygan County's 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,340 students), Sheridan Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Central High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sheridan Elementary. On composite proficiency, Sheridan Elementary comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 35.5%.

Sheridan Elementary operates from a city-core location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sheridan Elementary has grew 8%, going from 266 students in 2018 to 286 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 75% to 84% across the same window.

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