SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a moderately sized elementary school in SHELLEY, Idaho, overseen by SHELLEY JOINT DISTRICT, serves 339 students, covering grades 1 through 2.

SHELLEY JOINT DISTRICT comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 2,512 students; SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 17% Hispanic.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.1:1, putting SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 50% of students at SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Around the school, census data for Bingham County shows the typical household earns roughly $77,878 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Bingham County runs 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,273 students), of which SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is SHELLEY WORK BASED ACADEMY, roughly 0.1 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Over the past 7-year window. SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 37% since 2018, when it stood at 538 (now 339). Hispanic enrollment moved from 12% to 17% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 24.4:1 in 2018 to 18.8:1 in 2025.

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