Sherwood Forest Elementary
Winston Salem, NC · Elementary School · Grades -1-5
Sherwood Forest Elementary is a elementary school in Winston Salem, NC with 650 students enrolled and a 67% proficiency rate. Part of Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Sherwood Forest Elementary is a elementary school located in Winston Salem, North Carolina. The school serves 650 students in grades -1-5. The student-to-teacher ratio is 14.1:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 67% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.
21% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Sherwood Forest Elementary is part of the Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools in North Carolina.
How This School Compares
Sherwood Forest Elementary has 650 students enrolled, making it smaller than the average school in Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools (667 students). Its 67% proficiency rate is 27 percentage points above the district average of 40%. Compared to the North Carolina state average of 43%, the school performs 24 points higher. With a 14.1:1 student-teacher ratio, it offers smaller class sizes than the national average.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Sherwood Forest Elementary has 650 students enrolled in grades -1-5. The student-to-teacher ratio is 14.1:1.
According to EDFacts data, 67% of students at Sherwood Forest Elementary meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Sherwood Forest Elementary is part of the Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools in Winston Salem, North Carolina. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.