Enrollment
362
Elementary
DISTRICT 449 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CUMBERLAND COUNTY SCHOOLS·NCES 370001100440
Sunnyside Elementary
3876 Sunnyside School Road, Fayetteville, NC 28312 · (910) 483-4319 · Cumberland County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL362 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 41% of North Carolina 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.
- B-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 North Carolina public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
17.4:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
96%
348 students
DISTRICT 89% · STATE 82%
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 | 64 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 62 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 52 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 55 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 62 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 67 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (64) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (67).
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 71% · 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
NC EOG / EOC 2024-25 . % Grade Level Proficient (Level 3+)English Language Arts
51.7%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
50.6%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all North Carolina schools, those numbers are about 51 and 52.
Source: NC EOG / EOC. 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
50.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.5%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% typical for North Carolina 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 North Carolina'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 Elementary
Sunnyside Elementary's state test result (50.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunnyside Elementary this school | 362 | 96.1% | 50.8% |
| Englewood Elementary Rocky Mount | 383 | 99.2% | 53.8% |
| Wells Elementary Wilson | 383 | 95.8% | 55.3% |
| A H Snipes Academy of Arts/Des Wilmington | 342 | 99.1% | 36.6% |
| C. G. Credle Elementary Oxford | 327 | 99.1% | 42.7% |
| P W Moore Elementary Elizabeth City | 353 | 99.2% | 39.0% |
Matched among North Carolina 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 Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Cumberland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.8% | #791 of 1,297 | #23 of 45 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.6% | #888 of 1,296 | #19 of 45 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 51.7% | #554 of 1,300 | #17 of 45 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 362 | #1,013 of 1,485 | #35 of 50 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.4:1 | #1,243 of 1,377 | #45 of 46 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.6% | #814 of 1,379 | #36 of 46 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 96.1% | #1,034 of 1,414 | #46 of 49 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +5.2% | #263 of 369 | #9 of 11 |
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
362
+25 (+7%) vs 2020
-4% since 1990-91, when it was 379
Student : Teacher
17.4:1
was 13.5:1
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 | 362 | 20.9 | 17.4:1 | 96% (348) |
| 2023-24 | 343 | 24 | 14.3:1 | 99% (340) |
| 2022-23 | 333 | 24.5 | 13.6:1 | 99% (330) |
| 2020-21 | 337 | 25 | 13.5:1 | 99% (334) |
| 2017-18 | 344 | 22.5 | 15.3:1 | 96% (329) |
| 2015-16 | 372 | 23 | 16.2:1 | 99% (369) |
| 2010-11 | 341 | 25 | 13.6:1 | 86% (292) |
| 2000-01 | 274 | 16 | 17.1:1 | 90% (246) |
| 1990-91 | 379 | 22 | 17.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sunnyside Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 5% (344 to 362); teachers down 7% (22.5 to 20.9).
About Sunnyside Elementary
Sunnyside Elementary is an elementary school in Fayetteville, North Carolina, according to federal school records. The grade span is kindergarten through 5, and enrollment is 362 students. An average school in this group (elementary schools in North Carolina) has about 467 students.
The 86 schools in Cumberland County Schools enroll 49,002 students altogether, Sunnyside Elementary among them.
At Sunnyside Elementary, Black students make up 63% of the student body. Next come 13% Hispanic, 12% White, 9% multiracial, and 2% Native American. The county population is about 38% Black. The school's diversity index is 57%, meaning two students picked at random have a 57% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Teacher staffing is 20.9 full-time equivalents, or about 17.4 students per teacher. On average, elementary schools in North Carolina have 14.9:1, compared with 17.4:1 here. About 96% of students, or 348, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Cumberland County, the average is 86%.
Measured against North Carolina public elementary schools, Sunnyside Elementary receives a C+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Sunnyside Elementary is 1.4 points above its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (50.8% versus 49.5%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in North Carolina.
County data help place the school in context: in Cumberland County, the median household income is $61,291, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 28%, and about 13% of people live in poverty. In all, Cumberland County has 89 public schools and roughly 50,815 students.
The closest other public school is Mac Williams Middle, about 1.8 miles away. Within five miles are 6 other public schools. Of 6 schools in the immediate area with test results, Sunnyside Elementary ranks 5th on average proficiency.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Rural: Fringe, meaning it is in rural territory close to an urban area.
Sunnyside Elementary's enrollment climbed from 337 in 2020-21 to 362 in 2024-25. Students per teacher rose from 13.5 in 2020-21 to 17.4 in 2024-25.
The Sunnyside Elementary community page is open for posts about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Cumberland County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
338,545
Census ACS
Median income
$61,291
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
89
50,815 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Cumberland County Schools
- Jack Britt HighHigh · 1,940 students
- Pine Forest HighHigh · 1,551 students
- Cape Fear HighHigh · 1,515 students
- South View HighHigh · 1,461 students
- Gray's Creek HighHigh · 1,458 students
- Seventy-First HighHigh · 1,332 students
Other schools in Fayetteville
- Jack Britt HighHigh · 1,940 students
- Pine Forest HighHigh · 1,551 students
- Cape Fear HighHigh · 1,515 students
- Seventy-First HighHigh · 1,332 students
- Westover HighHigh · 1,234 students
- Terry Sanford HighHigh · 1,201 students
Other Sunnyside Elementary schools
20 other US public schools in 14 states are named Sunnyside Elementary. Sunnyside Elementary is the 12th largest of the 21.
- 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
- Sunnyside ElementaryNEW BRIGHTON, MN · 498 students
Nearby schools
- Mac Williams Middle1.8 mi · 1,109
- Cape Fear High2.0 mi · 1,515
- J W Seabrook Elementary3.7 mi · 271
- Walker-Spivey Elementary4.4 mi · 345
- Armstrong Elementary4.4 mi · 456
- The Capitol Encore Academy5.0 mi · 853
Frequently asked questions
About Sunnyside ElementaryHow large is Sunnyside Elementary?
Sunnyside Elementary enrolls approximately 362 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Sunnyside Elementary serve?
Sunnyside Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Sunnyside Elementary?
Approximately 17.4:1 students per teacher at Sunnyside Elementary.
How diverse is Sunnyside Elementary?
Sunnyside Elementary reports a student body of 12% White, 13% Hispanic, 63% Black, 1% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is Sunnyside Elementary public or private?
Sunnyside Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Cumberland County Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.