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Enrollment
502
Elementary
DISTRICT 340 · STATE 323
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EAU CLAIRE AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 550405000439
Sherman Elementary
3110 W Vine St, Eau Claire, WI 54703 · (715) 852-4800 · Eau Claire County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL502 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 51% of Wisconsin public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Wisconsin public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.8:1 · STATE 14.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
36%
182 students
DISTRICT 40% · STATE 42%
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 | 77 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 83 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 73 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 99 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 83 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 87 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (77) is 11% smaller than its 5th grade class (87).
Student demographics
50%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 46% · STATE 54% · 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
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
53.3%
WI avg 53.1% . -3.1pp since 2023
Math
61.2%
WI avg 54.8% . +1.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 61 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.3% | 61.2% |
| 2023-24 | 56.4% | 59.4% |
% Meeting or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Forward Exam. 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
59.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.4%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% typical for Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin'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 Sherman Elementary
Sherman Elementary's state test result (59.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sherman Elementary this school | 502 | 36.3% | 59.0% |
| Mountain Bay Elementary Weston | 451 | 37.5% | 66.3% |
| Rothschild Elementary Rothschild | 408 | 40.9% | 54.7% |
| Riverview Elementary Wausau | 445 | 44.3% | 47.1% |
| Evergreen Elementary Rothschild | 450 | 28.7% | 59.3% |
| Ferber Elementary Appleton | 499 | 32.3% | 56.4% |
Matched among Wisconsin 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 Sherman Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Eau Claire County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 59.0% | #428 of 982 | #6 of 17 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 61.2% | #370 of 992 ▲ 68 | #4 of 17 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.3% | #481 of 992 ▼ 35 | #8 of 17 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 502 | #148 of 1,157 | #3 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.8:1 | #556 of 901 | #15 of 18 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.4% | #310 of 901 | #4 of 18 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 36.3% | #633 of 1,064 | #11 of 18 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +6.1% | #134 of 240 | #4 of 7 |
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
502
+10 (+2%) vs 2020
+16% since 1990-91, when it was 433
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
was 14.5:1
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 | 502 | 36.3 | 13.8:1 | 36% (182) |
| 2023-24 | 490 | 35.5 | 13.8:1 | 36% (178) |
| 2022-23 | 481 | 36 | 13.4:1 | 38% (182) |
| 2020-21 | 492 | 34 | 14.5:1 | 43% (211) |
| 2017-18 | 473 | 36.9 | 12.8:1 | 37% (176) |
| 2015-16 | 466 | 34 | 13.7:1 | 42% (195) |
| 2010-11 | 443 | 28 | 15.8:1 | 42% (186) |
| 2000-01 | 312 | 25 | 12.5:1 | 26% (81) |
| 1990-91 | 433 | 28 | 15.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sherman Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 6% (473 to 502); teachers down 2% (36.9 to 36.3).
About Sherman Elementary
Sherman Elementary is an elementary school located in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, in Eau Claire County. The school offers kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 502 students. The school is 55% larger than the average for elementary schools in Wisconsin.
Sherman Elementary is one of 23 schools in Eau Claire Area School District, which enrolls 10,687 students in total.
Of every 100 students at Sherman Elementary, about 67 are White. Other reported shares: 18% Asian, 8% multiracial, and 4% Hispanic. Eau Claire County's residents are about 88% White, 21 points above the school's share. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 50%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 13.8:1. The school has 36.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Wisconsin is 14.7:1. In all, 36% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Eau Claire County is similar, at 37%.
On the allk12 Grade, Sherman Elementary lands at B-, ahead of 51% of Wisconsin public elementary schools.
On BeatsExpectations, Sherman Elementary is 3.6 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Wisconsin schools.
The school's county is Eau Claire County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $74,546, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 37%, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. There are 36 public schools in the county, enrolling about 14,002, Sherman Elementary among them.
A public school about 0.9 miles away, DeLong Middle, is the closest to Sherman Elementary. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. In a group of 5 nearby schools with scores, Sherman Elementary ranks 2nd on average proficiency.
Sherman Elementary falls in the City: Small locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Over 4 years, enrollment stayed close to where it was, going from 492 to 502.
This page collects posts and questions about Sherman Elementary, such as fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Eau Claire County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
107,116
Census ACS
Median income
$74,546
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
36
14,002 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Eau Claire Area School District
- North HighHigh · 1,567 students
- Memorial HighHigh · 1,558 students
- DeLong MiddleMiddle · 893 students
- South MiddleMiddle · 797 students
- Northstar MiddleMiddle · 529 students
- Robbins ElementaryElementary · 522 students
Other schools in Eau Claire
- North HighHigh · 1,567 students
- Memorial HighHigh · 1,558 students
- DeLong MiddleMiddle · 893 students
- South MiddleMiddle · 797 students
- Northstar MiddleMiddle · 529 students
- Robbins ElementaryElementary · 522 students
Other Sherman Elementary schools
16 other US public schools in 13 states are named Sherman Elementary. Sherman Elementary is the 4th largest of the 17.
- Sherman ElementaryMilwaukee, WI · 147 students
- Sherman Elementary SchoolMansfield, OH · 613 students
- Sherman Elementary SchoolSherman, IL · 552 students
- Sherman ElementarySan Diego, CA · 535 students
- SHERMAN ELEMENTARYNAMPA, ID · 468 students
Nearby schools
- DeLong Middle0.9 mi · 893
- Prairie Ridge Early Learning School1.0 mi · 248
- Roosevelt Elementary1.7 mi · 215
- Chippewa Valley Montessori Charter School2.0 mi · 301
- Lakeshore Elementary2.1 mi · 314
- Second Avenue School2.6 mi · 16
Frequently asked questions
About Sherman ElementaryHow large is Sherman Elementary?
Sherman Elementary enrolls approximately 502 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Sherman Elementary serve?
Sherman Elementary serves grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Sherman Elementary?
Approximately 13.8:1 students per teacher at Sherman Elementary.
How diverse is Sherman Elementary?
Sherman Elementary reports a student body of 67% White, 4% Hispanic, 1% Black, 18% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Sherman Elementary?
Sherman Elementary is overseen by Eau Claire Area School District in Eau Claire County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.