Sherwood Elementary School
Highland Park, IL 60035
Phone: (224) 765-3800
District: North Shore School District 112
GreatSchools Rating
public • Grades KG,1,2,3,4,5 • 359 students
Sherwood Elementary School, a public school located in Highland Park, IL, serves grades K-5 in the North Shore School District 112.It has received a GreatSchools Rating of 8 out of 10, based on a variety of school quality measures.
Sherwood Elementary School is a public school located in Highland Park, IL. 359 students attend Sherwood Elementary School.
School Ratings
| Category | Rating | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Test Scores | 9/10 | The Test Score Rating examines how students at this school performed on standardized tests compared with other schools in the state. The Test Rating was created using 2025 Illinois Assessment of Readiness data from Illinois State Board of Education, and using 2025 Illinois Science Assessment data from Illinois State Board of Education. |
| Student Growth | 6/10 | The Student Progress Rating measures whether students at this school are making academic progress over time based on student growth data provided by the Department of Education. Specifically, this rating looks at how much progress individual students have made on state assessments during the past year or more, how this performance aligns with expected progress based on a student growth model established by the state Department of Education, and how this school's growth data compares to other schools in the state. The Growth Rating was created using 2025 Student growth data from Illinois State Board of Education. |
Posted: January 19, 2022
Some teachers are good, but the overall approach allows kids to fall behind. Lack of effective support for learning differences. Lack of transparency: The school pretends everything is all right even when the kid needs extra help. They do not have the kids interest as priority. The school was not a partner of ours in providing our kids best education and support. The principal is inadequate.
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Posted: December 13, 2021
We moved to this area and bought a house here because of its school system. Our daughter went here from Kindergarten to 2nd grade. We moved from a private school where our daughter used to receive speech support. I remember asking to the school if she needed speech support and was answered "it doesn't hurt". Who spends an additional $600/month if 'it doesn't hurt? So we suspended the therapy and left our daughter attending classes always receiving positive feedback from teachers. According to them, everything was fine. It was only during the Covid pandemic, when we saw our daughter at home struggling compared to most of her peers, that we realized something was definitely not right. My wife and I realized our daughter needed a multisensory approach for her learning. We reached out in August 2020 to the school saying we thought our daughter needed support. In December 2020 we were presented with an IEP that was clearly inadequate. To keep it short, we learned at our expense that some kids are just ignored. There are some good teachers, but the management was very messy and unclear. We had to sell our house and move out of State to give our daughter the education she deserved, which is a multisensory approach in teaching (1 out of 5 kids need it) with a modern empowering approach and not the absurdly old mentality of approaching dyslexia that teaches kids "they have a disability". Very disappointing.
Posted: December 13, 2021
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Posted: November 20, 2020
Horrible school in a horrible district. Do not represent students interests. Very self serving. Do not recommend.
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Posted: June 17, 2014
Sherwood has fantastic teachers, who really Convey a passion for learning, but tmy child also experienced a rigid, "school marm" type, who didn't appreciate his out of the box thinking, and refused to diverge from her daily worksheets.
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