Enrollment
298
Elementary
DISTRICT 252 · STATE 325
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BURLINGTON COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 190579000194
Sunnyside Elementary School
2040 Sunnyside Ave., Burlington, IA 52601 · (319) 753-5244 · Des Moines County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY33-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL298 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 73% of Iowa public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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 Iowa public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.7:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.9:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
56%
167 students
DISTRICT 53% · STATE 41%
Community
0
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 | 58 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 68 | 23% |
| Grade 2 | 51 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 63 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 58 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (58) is about the same size as its 4th grade class (58).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · STATE 48% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Sunnyside Elementary School→Aldo Leopold Intermediate School→Edward Stone Middle School→Burlington Community High School
Based on grade levels within Burlington Comm School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
65.8%
IA avg 73.6% . -7.8pp since 2023
Math
78.1%
IA avg 70.9% . -2.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 78 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Iowa schools, those numbers are about 74 and 71. Reading and writing scores are down about 8 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 65.8% | 78.1% |
| 2023-24 | 73.6% | 80.2% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: ISASP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of IA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
74.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.9%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 75% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 64% typical for Iowa schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 11 points, placing it in Iowa's top 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 Sunnyside Elementary School
Sunnyside Elementary School's state test result (74.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunnyside Elementary School this school | 298 | 56.0% | 74.7% |
| Erskine Elementary School Cedar Rapids | 308 | 53.2% | 70.1% |
| Black Hawk Elementary School Burlington | 305 | 53.8% | 60.5% |
| Poyner Elementary Evansdale | 362 | 59.9% | 64.4% |
| Neil Armstrong Elementary School Bettendorf | 268 | 53.0% | 64.5% |
| Altoona Elementary Altoona | 429 | 53.4% | 76.9% |
Matched among Iowa 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 Sunnyside Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa | In Des Moines County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 74.7% | #248 of 564 | #3 of 7 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 78.1% | #253 of 564 ▼ 48 | #3 of 7 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.8% | #395 of 564 ▼ 159 | #5 of 7 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 298 | #382 of 705 | #5 of 8 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.7:1 | #22 of 561 | #1 of 7 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.2% | #169 of 561 | #4 of 7 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 56.0% | #160 of 666 | #3 of 8 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -31.3% | #28 of 359 | #3 of 6 |
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
298
+43 (+17%) vs 2020
-30% since 1990-91, when it was 423
Student : Teacher
10.7:1
was 9.1:1
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 | 298 | 28 | 10.7:1 | 56% (167) |
| 2023-24 | 298 | 26 | 11.5:1 | 67% (201) |
| 2022-23 | 277 | 27 | 10.3:1 | 59% (163) |
| 2020-21 | 255 | 28 | 9.1:1 | 51% (129) |
| 2017-18 | 434 | 29.5 | 14.7:1 | 56% (243) |
| 2015-16 | 449 | 34 | 13.2:1 | 58% (260) |
| 2010-11 | 484 | 32 | 15.1:1 | 51% (247) |
| 2000-01 | 349 | 26 | 13.4:1 | 28% (98) |
| 1990-91 | 423 | 24 | 17.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sunnyside Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 31% (434 to 298); teachers down 5% (29.5 to 28).
About Sunnyside Elementary School
Sunnyside Elementary School, located in Burlington, Iowa, is a medium-sized elementary school. Classes run from kindergarten through 4, and the school has 298 students.
The 8 schools in Burlington Comm School District enroll 3,140 students altogether, Sunnyside Elementary School among them.
Sunnyside Elementary School's enrollment is 62% White. Next come 15% Black, 14% multiracial, and 7% Hispanic. That compares with about 86% White among all Des Moines County residents. By the diversity index, Sunnyside Elementary School comes in at 56%.
A ratio of 10.7:1 comes from the school's 28 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 13.7:1 average for elementary schools in Iowa is higher than this school's figure. The lunch program counts 56% of students at Sunnyside Elementary School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Compared with the 45% average for public schools in Des Moines County, the school's rate is higher.
allk12 grades Sunnyside Elementary School a B+. The grade compares the school only with Iowa public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
After accounting for student poverty, Sunnyside Elementary School is in the top 10% of Iowa schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests of 74.7% is 10.8 points above the 63.9% predicted for its lunch-eligibility share.
Among Des Moines County residents, median household income is about $62,928, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 15 public schools in Des Moines County, with a combined enrollment of about 5,632.
The nearest public school is Aldo Leopold Intermediate School, at about 1.0 miles. Sunnyside Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Among 8 nearby schools that report test results, Sunnyside Elementary School ranks 2nd on proficiency.
The NCES locale for Sunnyside Elementary School is Town: Remote, which covers schools in a town far from an urbanized area.
Sunnyside Elementary School saw enrollment rise 17% between 2020-21 and 2024-25. Its ratio of students to teachers was 9.1:1 in 2020-21, and 10.7:1 in 2024-25.
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Des Moines County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
38,487
Census ACS
Median income
$62,928
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
15
5,632 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Burlington Comm School District
- Burlington Community High SchoolHigh · 1,016 students
- Edward Stone Middle SchoolMiddle · 452 students
- Aldo Leopold Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 412 students
- Black Hawk Elementary SchoolElementary · 305 students
- North Hill Elementary SchoolElementary · 268 students
- James Wilson Grimes SchoolElementary · 212 students
Other schools in Burlington
- Burlington Community High SchoolHigh · 1,016 students
- Edward Stone Middle SchoolMiddle · 452 students
- Aldo Leopold Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 412 students
- Black Hawk Elementary SchoolElementary · 305 students
- North Hill Elementary SchoolElementary · 268 students
- James Wilson Grimes SchoolElementary · 212 students
Other Sunnyside Elementary schools
20 other US public schools in 14 states are named Sunnyside Elementary. Sunnyside Elementary School is the 17th largest of the 21.
- Sunnyside Elementary SchoolSioux City, IA · 244 students
- Sunnyside Elementary SchoolIndianapolis, IN · 714 students
- SUNNYSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLIDAHO FALLS, ID · 568 students
- Sunnyside Elementary SchoolSmyrna, DE · 507 students
- Sunnyside ElementaryGarden Grove, CA · 500 students
Nearby schools
- Aldo Leopold Intermediate School1.0 mi · 412
- North Hill Elementary School1.2 mi · 268
- Burlington Community High School2.1 mi · 1,016
- Corse Early Childhood Center2.1 mi · 177
- West Burlington Elem School2.3 mi · 479
- West Burlington Arnold Jr./Sr. High School2.5 mi · 396
Frequently asked questions
About Sunnyside Elementary SchoolHow large is Sunnyside Elementary School?
Sunnyside Elementary School enrolls approximately 298 students in grades KG-04.
What grades does Sunnyside Elementary School serve?
Sunnyside Elementary School serves grades KG-04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Sunnyside Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Sunnyside Elementary School is approximately 10.7:1 (28 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Sunnyside Elementary School?
Sunnyside Elementary School reports a student body of 62% White, 7% Hispanic, 15% Black, 1% Asian, 14% Two or more.
Is Sunnyside Elementary School public or private?
Sunnyside Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Burlington Comm School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.