Enrollment
398
Elementary
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 313
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAWRENCE·NCES 200840001373
Sunset Hill Elem
901 Schwarz Rd, Lawrence, KS 66049 · (785) 832-5880 · Douglas County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL398 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 37% of Kansas public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
14.0:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
51%
204 students
DISTRICT 45% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 77 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 61 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 73 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 65 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 60 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 62 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (77) is 24% larger than its 5th grade class (62).
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · 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
46.6%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
37.1%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 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 | 46.6% | 37.1% |
| 2023-24 | 39.7% | 34.9% |
% 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
40.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.7%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 38% 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 Sunset Hill Elem
Sunset Hill Elem's state test result (40.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunset Hill Elem this school | 398 | 51.3% | 40.3% |
| Prairie Park Elem Lawrence | 354 | 51.7% | 34.6% |
| Tecumseh North Elem Tecumseh | 435 | 54.5% | 41.2% |
| Royal Valley Elementary Hoyt | 369 | 54.5% | 37.0% |
| Morgan Elementary Hutchinson | 388 | 55.7% | 31.8% |
| New York Elem Lawrence | 415 | 57.3% | 34.7% |
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 Sunset Hill Elem ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas | In Douglas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.3% | #364 of 625 | #10 of 14 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 37.1% | #380 of 625 | #10 of 14 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.6% | #361 of 625 | #11 of 14 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 398 | #192 of 714 | #8 of 16 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.0:1 | #337 of 539 | #9 of 15 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.8% | #171 of 540 | #7 of 15 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 51.3% | #363 of 658 | #7 of 16 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +3.9% | #119 of 151 | #8 of 9 |
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
398
+35 (+10%) vs 2020
+15% since 1990-91, when it was 346
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
was 16.5:1
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 | 398 | 28.5 | 14.0:1 | 51% (204) |
| 2023-24 | 398 | 25.7 | 15.5:1 | 56% (221) |
| 2022-23 | 378 | 22 | 17.2:1 | 49% (185) |
| 2020-21 | 363 | 22 | 16.5:1 | 37% (134) |
| 2017-18 | 383 | 25.5 | 15.0:1 | 47% (181) |
| 2015-16 | 285 | 18 | 15.8:1 | 46% (131) |
| 2010-11 | 292 | 17 | 17.2:1 | 40% (116) |
| 2000-01 | 324 | 17 | 19.1:1 | 27% (86) |
| 1990-91 | 346 | 17 | 20.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sunset Hill Elem.
Since 2017-18: students up 4% (383 to 398); teachers up 12% (25.5 to 28.5).
About Sunset Hill Elem
Sunset Hill Elem is a medium-sized elementary school in Lawrence, Kansas, administered by Lawrence. The school serves 398 students in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25. The average among elementary schools in Kansas is roughly 313 students; this school is 27% above that.
Besides Sunset Hill Elem, Lawrence runs 17 other schools. The district enrolls 10,380 students.
Sunset Hill Elem is 60% White by enrollment. Other reported shares: 20% multiracial, 13% Hispanic, and 4% Black. That compares with about 78% White among all Douglas County residents. The school's diversity index is 58%, meaning two students picked at random have a 58% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Dividing enrollment by its 28.5 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 14.0:1. That is higher than the 13.2:1 average for elementary schools in Kansas. Eligible students account for 51% of enrollment in the free or reduced-price lunch program. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Douglas County is 40%.
allk12 grades Sunset Hill Elem a C+. The grade compares the school only with Kansas public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Sunset Hill Elem scores 40.3% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 37.7%.
Douglas County census figures show that the median household income is $69,746, roughly 53% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. There are 30 public schools in Douglas County, enrolling about 13,766 students in all.
Lawrence West Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles away. The five-mile area around Sunset Hill Elem holds at least 8 other public schools. Sunset Hill Elem's average proficiency of 40.3% compares with 43.2% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Locale: City: Small. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment at Sunset Hill Elem climbed 10% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 363 to 398 students. Its ratio of students to teachers was 16.5:1 in 2020-21, and 14.0:1 in 2024-25.
The Sunset Hill Elem community page is open for posts about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Douglas County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
120,302
Census ACS
Median income
$69,746
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
53%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
30
13,766 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lawrence
- Lawrence Free State HighHigh · 1,774 students
- Lawrence HighHigh · 1,454 students
- Lawrence West Middle SchoolMiddle · 648 students
- Lawrence Southwest Middle SchoolMiddle · 641 students
- Langston Hughes ElemElementary · 560 students
- Lawrence Virtual SchoolCombined · 543 students
Other schools in Lawrence
- Lawrence Free State HighHigh · 1,774 students
- Lawrence HighHigh · 1,454 students
- Lawrence West Middle SchoolMiddle · 648 students
- Lawrence Southwest Middle SchoolMiddle · 641 students
- Langston Hughes ElemElementary · 560 students
- Lawrence Virtual SchoolCombined · 543 students
Other Sunset Hill Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Sunset Hill Elementary. Sunset Hill Elem is the 2nd largest of the 2.
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Nearby schools
- Lawrence West Middle School0.2 mi · 648
- Hillcrest Elem0.7 mi · 393
- Deerfield Elem1.1 mi · 433
- Lawrence Virtual School1.2 mi · 543
- Quail Run Elementary1.7 mi · 421
- Schwegler Elem1.8 mi · 434
Frequently asked questions
About Sunset Hill ElemHow large is Sunset Hill Elem?
Sunset Hill Elem enrolls approximately 398 students in grades KG-05.
Is Sunset Hill Elem an elementary, middle, or high school?
Sunset Hill Elem is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Sunset Hill Elem?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Sunset Hill Elem is approximately 14.0:1 (28 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Sunset Hill Elem?
At Sunset Hill Elem, the student body is approximately 60% White, 13% Hispanic, 4% Black, 0% Asian, 20% Two or more.
What district is Sunset Hill Elem in?
Sunset Hill Elem is part of Lawrence.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.