SUNRISE ELEM.

SUNRISE ELEM., a mid-sized elementary campus in DESOTO, Missouri, part of SUNRISE R-IX, works with 318 students, covering grades pre-K through 8.

SUNRISE ELEM. is a school of SUNRISE R-IX, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On demographics, SUNRISE ELEM. lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (97%).

On the resource side, SUNRISE ELEM. logs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting SUNRISE ELEM. tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 42% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, SUNRISE ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.5%, the actual is 51.1%, a residual of +0.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Jefferson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $82,851 per year, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Jefferson County runs 69 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,216 students), of which SUNRISE ELEM. is one.

VINELAND ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 5.8 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 7 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, SUNRISE ELEM. comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 42.5%.

SUNRISE ELEM. operates from a low-density location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SUNRISE ELEM. has grew 3%, going from 308 students in 2018 to 318 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 in 2025.

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