Summary:
The Sherwood Montessori District in Chico, California, contains a single elementary school, Sherwood Montessori, which serves grades K-8 with a total enrollment of 116 students.
Sherwood Montessori presents a mixed academic profile with a notable strength in science, where 50% of students are proficient, significantly outperforming the state average. However, the school faces challenges in mathematics, with proficiency at 22%, and in English Language Arts, where it slightly trails the state average. The school's overall state ranking has shown positive improvement over the past three years, moving into the 70th percentile. A particular bright spot is the strong performance of fifth-grade students across all subjects.
Key areas for parent consideration include the school's high chronic absenteeism rate of 35%, which is nearly double the state average and likely impacts learning. The school operates with a favorable student-teacher ratio and higher-than-average per-student spending. As the only school in the Sherwood Montessori District, it offers a unique K-8 Montessori program, which may appeal to families seeking this educational approach, but the significant disparity between its strong science results and lower math scores is an important factor to note.
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