Sunrise Elementary School

As a moderately sized primary school in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, Sunrise Elementary School educates 506 students from grades K through 5, part of School District No. 3 in the county of El Paso and State of. That puts it 34% above the typical public school in Colorado, which averages around 379 students.

Across the 18 schools in School District No. 3 in the county of El Paso and State of (9,290 students total), Sunrise Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Sunrise Elementary School shows that the most-represented group is White (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 33% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, 11% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.

On the income-and-resources front, Sunrise Elementary School records 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.9:1. The state averages about 16.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 50% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above El Paso County's rate of about 42%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Sunrise Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.6%, the actual is 30.3%, a residual of -6.4 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for El Paso County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,363 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, El Paso County runs 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), of which Sunrise Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Martin Luther King Jr Elementary School, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sunrise Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Sunrise Elementary School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 33.2%.

Sunrise Elementary School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Sunrise Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 28% since 2018, when it stood at 707 (now 506). White enrollment moved from 50% to 39% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 21.1:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 in 2025.

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