SUNSHINE ELEM.

SUNSHINE ELEM. operates as an average-sized elementary school in SPRINGFIELD, Missouri, operated by SPRINGFIELD R-XII. Current enrollment sits at 353 students spanning grades K through 5.

SPRINGFIELD R-XII comprises 54 schools with combined enrollment of 24,450 students; SUNSHINE ELEM. is among them.

Demographically, SUNSHINE ELEM. reports that the largest single group is White, at 65% of enrollment; the rest looks like 12% Hispanic, 11% Black, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Greene County as a whole is about 86% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, SUNSHINE ELEM. has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 73% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Greene County's rate of about 47%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SUNSHINE ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.9%, the actual is 37.9%, a residual of -12.0 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Greene County shows the typical household earns roughly $61,479 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. SUNSHINE ELEM. is one of 97 public schools in Greene County (combined enrollment of about 42,423 students).

The closest other public school is PARKVIEW HIGH, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SUNSHINE ELEM. comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 48.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. SUNSHINE ELEM.'s enrollment has edged up 77% since 2018, when it stood at 199 (now 353). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 78% to 65%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.

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