Sherwood Elementary School in Melbourne, Florida

Sherwood Elementary School sits at 2541 Post Road in Melbourne and serves Brevard Public Schools children from prekindergarten through sixth grade.

Federal records list sherwood elementary school at 2541 POST RD, MELBOURNE, FL 32935, phone (321) 254-6424, with 493 students and grades PK-6 (NCES locator, Sherwood Elementary search). According to the NCES locator, the enrollment figure is an official 2024-2025 count, while address and phone details come from preliminary 2025-2026 submissions.

The Melbourne school's own website lists the same Post Road address and phone, plus a fax line of (321) 877-0956 (Sherwood Elementary site).

In the Florida Department of Education's 2025-26 grades workbook, the Melbourne campus is school 3041 in district 05, Brevard, with school type 01, which the workbook legend defines as elementary (FLDOE 2025-26 grades, Sherwood row).

Sherwood Elementary in Melbourne earned an A for 2025-26, collecting 70 percent of possible points.

The workbook, updated through September 1, 2026, records 562 points across 8 components for the Melbourne school and shows that 100 percent of its eligible students were tested (FLDOE 2025-26 grades, Sherwood row). The elementary scale in the file's opening note starts an A at 62 percent of points, puts a B between 54 and 61 percent and places a C between 41 and 53 percent (FLDOE elementary grading scale).

Section 1008.34 calls A schools ones making excellent progress. A campus that earns the top letter, as this Brevard school did, may also receive more control over dividing up its overall budget, including state formula money, lottery dollars and grants (section 1008.34, Florida Statutes).

Sherwood's grade 3 English Language Arts score of 75 is the percentage of its eligible Melbourne third graders who reached level 3 or higher on the statewide third grade reading test.

Only schools that teach third graders, such as this Melbourne campus, get that component, and section 1008.34 defines it as eligible students reaching achievement level 3 or above on the state's third grade English Language Arts test (section 1008.34, Florida Statutes). The Post Road school's other reading figure, 74 for English Language Arts achievement, covers all of its tested grades (Sherwood scores by component, FLDOE).

The growth columns follow a separate rule. For Sherwood they read 64 for reading gains, 75 for mathematics gains, 62 for reading gains in the lowest 25 percent and 57 for mathematics gains in that group (Sherwood scores by component, FLDOE). The statute says the State Board must count growth toward levels 3, 4 and 5 for students who scored below each of those levels the year before, and it builds the lowest 25 percent group from prior year results (section 1008.34, Florida Statutes). Science, at 80 for the Melbourne school, is an achievement measure with no growth column.

Sherwood Elementary in Melbourne received a C in 1999, an A every year from 2000 through 2013, B or C grades from 2014 through 2023, and an A in 2024, 2025 and 2026.

Each row of the state workbook carries letter grades back to 1999, with columns for 2015 and 2023 labeled informational baseline grades and a 2021 column that is blank for the Brevard school (Sherwood grade history, FLDOE).

Elementary cut points can move. If at least 75 percent of graded elementary schools earn an A or B in a year, the State Board must raise each letter's minimum to the next highest percentage ending in 5 or 0, so a Melbourne school's letter in one year rests on that year's scale (section 1008.34, Florida Statutes).

Sherwood Elementary in Melbourne lists four programs on its home page, a Writing Club, an Environmental Club, a Drama Club and the Sherwood Chorus, and its menus add Science Fair Information and the Brevard Afterschool Program (BAS).

The Post Road school's site says the Writing Club was created to encourage and cultivate a love of writing among its students, whom it calls young archers (Sherwood Elementary site). The Environmental Club is described as raising student awareness of environmental issues and giving students ways to take part in environmental change, while the chorus aims to refine vocal skills through performances during the year.

Melbourne parents also find a Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) page, a School Advisory Council (SAC) page, Positive Behavior Intervention Supports (PBIS), a Counselor Corner and a FOCUS Login link under the site's Parents and Students menu, and the home page gallery carries a Sales Surtax item that points readers to the school's news section (Sherwood Elementary site).

Sherwood carries Title I status in Melbourne with an economically disadvantaged rate of 100 percent, and its site links a Title I page, a Purple Star page for military families and a VPK page.

The 2025-26 state workbook shows YES under Title I and NO under charter for the Brevard school, with 100 in the economically disadvantaged column (Sherwood Title I column, FLDOE). The Title I, Purple Star (Military Families) and VPK links all sit under Parents and Students on the Melbourne school's website (Sherwood Elementary site).

For Brevard military families, section 1003.051 lists what a Purple Star Campus must do at a minimum: appoint a military liaison from its staff, keep resources for military families on its website, support a student-led program that helps military students settle in, train staff on military student issues and keep a minimum of 5 percent of its controlled open enrollment openings for students from military families (section 1003.051, Florida Statutes).

For the youngest Melbourne children, Florida's Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program is open to every child living in the state who turns 4 by September 1 of a school year, either in that school year or the one after, and one of the choices open to a parent is a school-year prekindergarten program run by a public school (section 1002.53, Florida Statutes).

Last verified: October 21, 2026, against a same-day reread of row 154 and the elementary grading note in FLDOE's SchoolGrades26.xlsx, the NCES result for Sherwood Elementary, the Melbourne school's website and Florida Statutes sections 1002.53, 1003.051 and 1008.34.