Sherwood Heights Elementary School, Pendleton OR

Original Research by School Decision on Sherwood Heights Elementary School

Sherwood Heights Elementary School serves kindergarten through grade five in the Pendleton School District, the public school system for the city of Pendleton, Oregon, the county seat of Umatilla County. Looked at among the county’s districts, Sherwood Heights’ overall proficiency across tested subjects and grades sits in the bottom quartile.

Pendleton itself is a regional hub, a mix of residential neighborhoods, a walkable historic downtown anchored by the Pendleton Round-Up grounds, and an economy that draws on agriculture, wool production, corrections, healthcare, and tribal enterprises. The city has been relatively stable in population, and the downtown has seen some recent revitalization work. Housing values in the area around the school are well below Oregon’s statewide benchmark, and rents are lower too, making Pendleton a more affordable market relative to many parts of the state. The school sits in a residential part of town.

The student body reflects a largely white plurality, with a substantial Hispanic share and smaller numbers of American Indian or Alaska Native students and students who identify with two or more races. A substantial share of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. Enrollment is modest for an elementary school serving the full kindergarten-through-fifth-grade span.

State test results from the most recent available year show that across the grades tested, the share of students meeting math proficiency is low. In English language arts, grade-level results vary: the proficiency rate in fifth grade is meaningfully higher than it is for third and fourth graders, though overall the combined figure is still modest. In science, which is tested only at the fifth-grade level, the proficiency rate is very low. Only a single year of assessment data is available, so there is no trend to examine. The district itself has been in the news for an over five-year stretch in which voters have repeatedly turned down facilities bond measures, leaving the condition and funding for school buildings as an open question. A parent may want to look into building conditions at Sherwood Heights more directly with the district.

Program offerings, staffing, attendance, and discipline figures were not available in the data provided, so there is no information on, for instance, class sizes, enrichment classes, or chronic absenteeism. Because the school serves only an elementary grade band, there is no graduation rate to report.

Given the assessment data, this is a school where most students are not currently meeting the state’s academic benchmarks in reading and math, and where science proficiency is very low. For a family considering the school, the primary question is likely about the level of academic support and intervention for students who need it. The building’s modest enrollment and the district’s unsettled facility funding situation are additional context any prospective resident would want to ask about.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 326%

School 26% · District 29% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▼ 12 pts below state median · ▼ 12 pts below county median

Grade 417%

School 17% · District 22% · ▼ 5 pts below district

▼ 17 pts below state median · ▼ 17 pts below county median

Grade 521%

School 21% · District 27% · ▼ 6 pts below district

▼ 8 pts below state median · ▼ 4 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 320%

School 20% · District 27% · ▼ 7 pts below district

▼ 20 pts below state median · ▼ 21 pts below county median

Grade 418%

School 18% · District 29% · ▼ 10 pts below district

▼ 23 pts below state median · ▼ 22 pts below county median

Grade 539%

School 39% · District 48% · ▼ 9 pts below district

▼ 7 pts below state median · ▼ 3 pts below county median

Science

Grade 517%

School 17% · District 27% · ▼ 10 pts below district

▼ 11 pts below state median · ▼ 3 pts below county median

This schoolPendleton SD 16, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.