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What advice would you give to incoming students at Sunrise Elementary School?
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Enrollment
506
Elementary
DISTRICT 440 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WIDEFIELD SCHOOL DISTRICT 3·NCES 080648001418
Sunrise Elementary School
7070 GRAND VALLEY DRIVE, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80911 · (719) 391-3415 · El Paso County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL506 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 25% of Colorado public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Colorado public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.7:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
50%
251 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 74 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 89 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 82 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 88 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 78 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 95 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (74) is 22% smaller than its 5th grade class (95).
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
34.2%
CO avg 44.9% . +1.5pp since 2023
Math
26.8%
CO avg 36.1% . +2.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 34.2% | 26.8% |
| 2023-24 | 32.7% | 24.2% |
% Met or Exceeded Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CMAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
30.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.6%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% typical for Colorado schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Colorado's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Sunrise Elementary School
Sunrise Elementary School's state test result (30.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunrise Elementary School this school | 506 | 49.6% | 30.3% |
| French Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 491 | 48.5% | 38.8% |
| Webster Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 582 | 47.9% | 37.9% |
| Martin Luther King Jr Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 498 | 46.0% | 52.4% |
| Mesa Elementary School FOUNTAIN | 668 | 51.5% | 28.5% |
| Mission Viejo Elementary School AURORA | 552 | 53.8% | 22.0% |
Matched among Colorado elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Sunrise Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In El Paso County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.3% | #578 of 931 | #92 of 128 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.8% | #594 of 940 ▲ 23 | #85 of 126 ▲ 15 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.2% | #588 of 946 ▲ 24 | #84 of 127 ▲ 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 506 | #226 of 1,056 | #33 of 137 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.9:1 | #651 of 896 | #97 of 122 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.5% | #43 of 896 | #5 of 122 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 49.6% | #483 of 983 | #60 of 134 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -28.4% | #137 of 664 | #32 of 100 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
506
-13 (-3%) vs 2020
-21% since 1990-91, when it was 637
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
was 16.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 506 | 30 | 16.9:1 | 50% (251) |
| 2023-24 | 537 | 33.5 | 16.0:1 | 53% (286) |
| 2022-23 | 537 | 29.5 | 18.2:1 | 33% (178) |
| 2020-21 | 519 | 31 | 16.7:1 | 46% (239) |
| 2017-18 | 707 | 33.4 | 21.1:1 | 45% (320) |
| 2015-16 | 649 | 31 | 20.9:1 | 49% (319) |
| 2010-11 | 647 | 36 | 18.0:1 | 45% (289) |
| 2000-01 | 579 | 31 | 18.7:1 | 16% (94) |
| 1990-91 | 637 | 32 | 19.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sunrise Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 28% (707 to 506); teachers down 10% (33.4 to 30).
About Sunrise Elementary School
Sunrise Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school located in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado. A total of 506 students attend the school, which covers kindergarten through 5. Against the 379-student average for elementary schools in Colorado, enrollment here is 34% higher.
District-wide, Widefield School District 3 has 18 schools and 9,290 students.
Sunrise Elementary School has no majority group; White students are the largest, at 39%. The rest of enrollment is 33% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, and 11% Black. Census estimates put the White share of El Paso County's population at about 70%. The school's diversity index is 70%, meaning two students picked at random have a 70% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
A ratio of 16.9:1 comes from the school's 30 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is close to the 16.6:1 average for elementary schools in Colorado. The lunch program counts 50% of students at Sunrise Elementary School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The average for public schools in El Paso County is 42%.
Measured against Colorado public elementary schools, Sunrise Elementary School receives a C. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
The model predicts 36.6% for a school in Colorado with Sunrise Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Sunrise Elementary School posts 30.3%.
El Paso County census figures show that the median household income is $90,363, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. El Paso County is home to 245 public schools and about 114,356 public school students.
The shortest distance from Sunrise Elementary School to another public school is about 0.8 miles, to Martin Luther King Jr Elementary School. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Sunrise Elementary School comes in 5th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for Sunrise Elementary School is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment has fallen by 13 students since 2020-21, to 506.
The allk12 site hosts a discussion page for Sunrise Elementary School covering things like sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
El Paso County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
742,999
Census ACS
Median income
$90,363
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
245
114,356 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Widefield School District 3
- Mesa Ridge High SchoolHigh · 1,304 students
- Widefield High SchoolHigh · 1,193 students
- Grand Mountain SchoolElementary · 1,044 students
- Janitell Junior High SchoolMiddle · 658 students
- Webster Elementary SchoolElementary · 582 students
- Sproul Junior High SchoolMiddle · 504 students
Other schools in COLORADO SPRINGS
- The Classical Academy CharterElementary · 1,909 students
- Pine Creek High SchoolHigh · 1,875 students
- Doherty High SchoolHigh · 1,715 students
- Banning Lewis Ranch AcademyCombined · 1,697 students
- Liberty High SchoolHigh · 1,526 students
- Vista Ridge High SchoolHigh · 1,473 students
Other Sunrise Elementary schools
29 other US public schools in 15 states are named Sunrise Elementary. Sunrise Elementary School is the 10th largest of the 30.
- Sunrise Elementary SchoolAURORA, CO · 497 students
- SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLOCALA, FL · 1,402 students
- Sunrise ElementaryRancho Cordova, CA · 1,235 students
- Sunrise ElementaryBLAINE, MN · 1,015 students
- SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLPALM BAY, FL · 907 students
Nearby schools
- Martin Luther King Jr Elementary School0.8 mi · 498
- Janitell Junior High School0.8 mi · 658
- Mesa Ridge High School1.4 mi · 1,304
- Webster Elementary School1.5 mi · 582
- James Madison Charter Academy School1.6 mi · 72
- Talbott STEAM Innovation School1.9 mi · 324
Frequently asked questions
About Sunrise Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Sunrise Elementary School?
Sunrise Elementary School enrolls approximately 506 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Sunrise Elementary School serve?
Sunrise Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Sunrise Elementary School?
Approximately 16.9:1 students per teacher at Sunrise Elementary School.
How diverse is Sunrise Elementary School?
Sunrise Elementary School reports a student body of 39% White, 33% Hispanic, 11% Black, 2% Asian, 13% Two or more.
Who oversees Sunrise Elementary School?
Sunrise Elementary School is overseen by Widefield School District 3 in El Paso County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.