# SHERMAN SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `363012004055`
- **School name**: SHERMAN SCHOOL
- **Location**: WATERTOWN, NY 13601
- **Address**: 836 SHERMAN ST
- **District**: WATERTOWN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3630120`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–4
- **Coordinates**: 43.96370, -75.91670
- **Phone**: (315)785-3760

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 323
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 22
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 55.7%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: s
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Core Performance: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 2
  - EM Growth: 3
  - overall_status: Local Support and Improvement

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient
- **Overall Status (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 33.5% (93 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.6% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 27.6% (86 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.7%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 11.7%
- **Black/African American**: 3.4%
- **Asian**: 3.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 72.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 7.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 53.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 0.0%
- **English Learners**: 1.6% — 5 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 22 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $21,253
- **Federal share**: $4,058
- **State + local share**: $17,194
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 311
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $23,944,134
- **Federal share**: 23.9%
- **State share**: 56.1%
- **Local share**: 20.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $12,526,663

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $76,154
- **Poverty rate**: 11.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 41.3%
- **Unemployment**: 2.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,058
- **Foreign-born residents**: 2.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 13.8 miles (CROWN CLEANERS OF WATERTOWN INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 15
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.59 miles (BLACK CLAWSON)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: WATERTOWN CITY
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 45
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 1
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-12-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **CASE MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 0.51% (this school: 1.61%)
- **WATERTOWN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 0.35% (this school: 1.61%)
- **HAROLD T WILEY SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 1.13% (this school: 1.61%)
- **NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 1.59% (this school: 1.61%)
- **STARBUCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.61%)

### ela proficiency
- **MAYNARD P WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 8.5 mi away, 46% (this school: 41%)
- **SACKETS HARBOR CENTRAL SCHOOL** — 10.3 mi away, 56% (this school: 41%)
- **COPENHAGEN CENTRAL SCHOOL** — 12.9 mi away, 51% (this school: 41%)
- **LYME CENTRAL SCHOOL** — 12.9 mi away, 47% (this school: 41%)

### math proficiency
- **CASE MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 54.75% (this school: 48%)
- **BROWNVILLE SCHOOL** — 3.8 mi away, 53% (this school: 48%)
- **CALCIUM PRIMARY SCHOOL** — 5.7 mi away, 51% (this school: 48%)
- **BLACK RIVER SCHOOL** — 6.9 mi away, 58% (this school: 48%)
- **EVANS MILLS PRIMARY SCHOOL** — 10.0 mi away, 56% (this school: 48%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/sherman-school-watertown
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/sherman-school-watertown/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/sherman-school-watertown/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/sherman-school-watertown/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/sherman-school-watertown/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/sherman-school-watertown/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/sherman-school-watertown/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/sherman-school-watertown/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/sherman-school-watertown/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/sherman-school-watertown/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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