Enrollment
365
Elementary
DISTRICT 437 · STATE 313
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DODGE CITY·NCES 200558001093
Sunnyside Elem
511 Sunnyside St, Dodge City, KS 67801 · (620) 471-2112 · Ford County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY33-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL365 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 5% of Kansas public elementary schools
- FTest 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 Kansas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
21.9:1
17 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.6:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
96%
351 students
DISTRICT 85% · STATE 51%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 77 | 21% |
| Kindergarten | 62 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 41 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 56 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 40 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 46 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 43 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (62) is 44% larger than its 5th grade class (43).
Student demographics
16%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 31% · STATE 58% · 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
KAP 2024-25 . % Meeting + ExceedingEnglish Language Arts
26.1%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
13.0%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kansas schools, those numbers are about 45 and 39.
KAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 26.1% | 13.0% |
| 2023-24 | 13.3% | 13.7% |
% Meeting + Exceeding, all students and all tested grades. Kansas set new KAP cut scores in spring 2025, so results from 2023-24 and earlier are not comparable with later years.
Source: KAP. 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
14.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
16.1%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 15% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 16% typical for Kansas 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 Kansas'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 Sunnyside Elem
Sunnyside Elem's state test result (14.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunnyside Elem this school | 365 | 96.2% | 14.7% |
| Central Elem Dodge City | 381 | 95.0% | 13.6% |
| Meadowlark Elementary School Liberal | 362 | 97.5% | 10.8% |
| Beeson Elementary Dodge City | 355 | 94.1% | 21.7% |
| Scott Dual Language Magnet Topeka | 402 | 91.5% | 28.0% |
| Ortiz Elementary School Wichita | 323 | 92.9% | 18.2% |
Matched among Kansas 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 Elem ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas | In Ford County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 14.7% | #604 of 625 | #9 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 13.0% | #594 of 625 | #10 of 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.1% | #574 of 625 | #6 of 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 365 | #256 of 714 | #6 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.9:1 | #529 of 539 | #5 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 15.8% | #522 of 540 | #8 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 96.2% | #3 of 658 | #1 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +27.2% | #17 of 151 | N/A |
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
365
+58 (+19%) vs 2020
-30% since 1990-91, when it was 521
Student : Teacher
21.9:1
was 16.2:1
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 | 365 | 16.7 | 21.9:1 | 96% (351) |
| 2023-24 | 363 | 12.5 | 29.0:1 | 98% (355) |
| 2022-23 | 386 | 14.7 | 26.3:1 | 93% (359) |
| 2020-21 | 307 | 19 | 16.2:1 | 91% (280) |
| 2017-18 | 287 | 17.5 | 16.4:1 | 98% (280) |
| 2015-16 | 324 | 20 | 16.2:1 | 97% (315) |
| 2010-11 | 348 | 23 | 15.1:1 | 94% (328) |
| 2000-01 | 447 | 25 | 17.9:1 | 84% (376) |
| 1990-91 | 521 | 24 | 21.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sunnyside Elem.
Since 2017-18: students up 27% (287 to 365); teachers down 5% (17.5 to 16.7).
About Sunnyside Elem
Dodge City, Kansas, is home to Sunnyside Elem, a mid-sized elementary school. Total enrollment is 365 students, and the grades served are pre-K through 5.
Within Dodge City, Sunnyside Elem is one of 11 schools. The district enrolls 7,268 students.
Sunnyside Elem is 92% Hispanic by enrollment. Other reported shares: 6% White. That compares with about 59% Hispanic among all Ford County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 16%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 21.9:1. The school has 16.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school's 21.9:1 compares with an average of 13.2:1 for elementary schools in Kansas. Federal data show 96% of students (351) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The 80% average for public schools in Ford County is 16 points lower.
Sunnyside Elem holds a D allk12 Grade, placing it above 5% of Kansas public elementary schools.
Sunnyside Elem scores 14.7% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 16.1%.
For Ford County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $70,781 a year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 12% of people live in poverty. Counting Sunnyside Elem, Ford County has 15 public schools.
Beeson Elementary is about 0.9 miles from Sunnyside Elem, the shortest distance to any other public school. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The nearest schools with test data average 21.2%, higher than Sunnyside Elem's 14.7%.
NCES lists the school's locale as Town: Remote. That means it sits in a town far from an urbanized area.
Enrollment increased by 19% across 4 years, from 307 in 2020-21 to 365 in 2024-25. Its ratio of students to teachers was 16.2:1 in 2020-21, and 21.9:1 in 2024-25.
Sunnyside Elem has a community page on allk12 for topics such as athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Ford County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
34,074
Census ACS
Median income
$70,781
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
21%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
15
7,836 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Dodge City
- Dodge City High SchoolHigh · 2,178 students
- Dodge City Middle SchoolMiddle · 808 students
- Comanche Middle SchoolMiddle · 783 students
- Miller ElemElementary · 780 students
- Ross Elementary SchoolElementary · 502 students
- Central ElemElementary · 381 students
Other schools in Dodge City
- Dodge City High SchoolHigh · 2,178 students
- Dodge City Middle SchoolMiddle · 808 students
- Comanche Middle SchoolMiddle · 783 students
- Miller ElemElementary · 780 students
- Ross Elementary SchoolElementary · 502 students
- Central ElemElementary · 381 students
Other Sunnyside Elementary schools
20 other US public schools in 14 states are named Sunnyside Elementary. Sunnyside Elem is the 11th largest of the 21.
- Sunnyside Elementary SchoolOlathe, KS · 316 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
- Beeson Elementary0.9 mi · 355
- Central Elem1.3 mi · 381
- Miller Elem1.5 mi · 780
- Comanche Middle School1.6 mi · 783
- Linn Elementary1.7 mi · 361
- Dodge City Middle School2.0 mi · 808
Frequently asked questions
About Sunnyside ElemHow large is Sunnyside Elem?
Sunnyside Elem enrolls approximately 365 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Sunnyside Elem serve?
Sunnyside Elem serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Sunnyside Elem?
Approximately 21.9:1 students per teacher at Sunnyside Elem.
How diverse is Sunnyside Elem?
Sunnyside Elem reports a student body of 6% White, 92% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is Sunnyside Elem in?
Sunnyside Elem is part of Dodge City.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.