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What's the most underrated thing about SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
428
Elementary
DISTRICT 552 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·VOLUSIA·NCES 120192001208
SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
3155 PHONETIA DR, DELTONA, FL 32738 · (407) 328-5530 · Volusia County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL428 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.0:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
62%
267 students
DISTRICT 55% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 30 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 56 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 66 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 70 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 64 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 71 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 71 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (56) is 21% smaller than its 5th grade class (71).
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 70% · 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
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
42.7%
FL avg 56.7% . +6.9pp since 2023
Math
40.4%
FL avg 58.9% . +8.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 42.7% | 40.4% |
| 2023-24 | 35.8% | 32.1% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. 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
36.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.9%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% typical for Florida 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 Florida'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 (36.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 428 | 62.4% | 36.8% |
| HIGHLAND CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HIGHLAND CITY | 414 | 63.5% | 56.9% |
| CALUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEW PORT RICHEY | 417 | 65.0% | 31.5% |
| MONTCLAIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ORANGE PARK | 402 | 64.7% | 50.8% |
| JAMES W. SIKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LAKELAND | 502 | 61.6% | 56.8% |
| WILLISTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WILLISTON | 515 | 63.3% | 45.8% |
Matched among Florida 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 Florida | In Volusia County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.8% | #1,922 of 2,136 | #44 of 48 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 40.4% | #1,913 of 2,149 ▲ 122 | #43 of 48 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 42.7% | #1,661 of 2,149 ▲ 152 | #43 of 48 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 428 | #1,689 of 2,267 | #39 of 50 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.5:1 | #217 of 2,077 | #2 of 47 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.9% | #495 of 2,108 | #10 of 47 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 62.4% | #815 of 2,188 | #17 of 48 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.7% | #465 of 1,374 | #6 of 30 |
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
428
-2 (0%) vs 2020
-52% since 2000-01, when it was 886
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
was 10.5:1
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 | 428 | 31.8 | 13.5:1 | 62% (267) |
| 2023-24 | 445 | 30 | 14.8:1 | 69% (306) |
| 2022-23 | 541 | 38 | 14.2:1 | 62% (338) |
| 2020-21 | 430 | 41 | 10.5:1 | 64% (275) |
| 2017-18 | 540 | 40 | 13.5:1 | 81% (435) |
| 2015-16 | 546 | 44 | 12.4:1 | 80% (438) |
| 2010-11 | 610 | 46 | 13.3:1 | 66% (404) |
| 2000-01 | 886 | 48 | 18.5:1 | 54% (481) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school in DELTONA, Florida, reachable at (407) 328-5530. The school offers pre-K through 5 and enrolls 428 students. Across elementary schools in Florida, the average enrollment is about 604.
SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the 87 schools that make up VOLUSIA (61,765 students in total).
No group is above 50% at SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL; the largest is White, at 45%. The school is also 35% Hispanic, 14% Black, and 5% multiracial. The White share of the county population is higher, at 71%. The diversity index for SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 66%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Teacher count: 31.8 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 13.5:1. Compared with the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida, this school's ratio is lower. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 62%. Compared with the 53% average for public schools in Volusia County, the school's rate is higher.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 49.9% at SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL; the school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 36.8%.
The school's county is Volusia County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $70,044, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Volusia County's 90 public schools enroll about 61,765 students and include SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
HERITAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL, about 0.8 miles away, is the closest public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 9th on average proficiency.
Its location is classified as City: Small by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Enrollment at SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL was 430 in 2020-21 and 428 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 10.5:1 to 13.5:1.
On allk12, people connected to SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL can post about special education services, counseling, and support programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Volusia County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
579,622
Census ACS
Median income
$70,044
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
90
61,765 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in VOLUSIA
- DELAND HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,936 students
- UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,855 students
- SPRUCE CREEK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,576 students
- MAINLAND HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,964 students
- DELTONA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,716 students
- NEW SMYRNA BEACH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,687 students
Other schools in DELTONA
- DELTONA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,716 students
- PINE RIDGE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,648 students
- DELTONA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,132 students
- GALAXY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 939 students
- HERITAGE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 932 students
- DELTONA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 731 students
Other Sunrise Elementary schools
29 other US public schools in 15 states are named Sunrise Elementary. SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 16th largest of the 30.
- SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLOCALA, FL · 1,402 students
- SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLPALM BAY, FL · 907 students
- SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLKISSIMMEE, FL · 906 students
- SUNRISE ELEMENTARYORLANDO, FL · 456 students
- Sunrise ElementaryRancho Cordova, CA · 1,235 students
Nearby schools
- HERITAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL0.8 mi · 932
- PINE RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL0.9 mi · 1,648
- PRIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 568
- OSTEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.8 mi · 523
- FOREST LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.3 mi · 571
- DELTONA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.8 mi · 731
Frequently asked questions
About SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 428 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 13.5:1 (32 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 45% White, 35% Hispanic, 14% Black, 2% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by VOLUSIA.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.