Henry W Sory Elementary School

Size

Henry W Sory Elementary School is the 2nd largest of Sherman ISD's 7 elementary schools; its 619 students are 7.9% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 3.2 miles away with a median enrollment of 403; Henry W Sory Elementary School is larger than most of them.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 2 with 117 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 93, against an average of 103 per grade. This year grade 5 has 10% fewer students than kindergarten (93 against 103). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is White students: 42.2% here and 29.6% across Sherman ISD. Hispanic students are next, at 29.1%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

55.4% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 72.5% across Sherman ISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 49 full-time-equivalent teachers for 619 students, Henry W Sory Elementary School has 12.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 619 students would have about 41.8 teachers, so Henry W Sory Elementary School has 7.2 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

Henry W Sory Elementary School is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people, which NCES calls city, small. The nearest other elementary school is Wakefield Elementary School, 0.6 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 13 other elementary schools, 6 of them within 5 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.