Sunrise Elementary

Located at 12576 LEVER ST NE, in BLAINE, Minnesota, Sunrise Elementary is a well-populated elementary school that hosts 1,015 students (grades K through 5), run under Anoka-Hennepin School District. Enrollment runs roughly 195% larger than the state mean of about 344.

Anoka-Hennepin School District comprises 53 schools with combined enrollment of 38,746 students; Sunrise Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Sunrise Elementary reports that 62% of the student body identifies as White; the rest looks like 18% Black, 9% Asian, 7% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Sunrise Elementary has 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Roughly 22% of students at Sunrise Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Anoka County's rate of about 42%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Sunrise Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 53.2%; this one delivers 65.6%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Anoka County) shows that median household income runs about $101,869, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Sunrise Elementary is one of 145 public schools in Anoka County (combined enrollment of about 59,656 students).

The closest other public school is Pines School - NSP, roughly 1.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sunrise Elementary. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sunrise Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 51.9%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

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