Sunshine Elementary School

Sunshine Elementary School is one of the tight-knit elementary campuss in Bostic, North Carolina, overseen by Rutherford County Schools, with 217 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 54% smaller than the state mean of about 467.

Across the 18 schools in Rutherford County Schools (7,394 students total), Sunshine Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Sunshine Elementary School lists that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.

In terms of school funding signals, Sunshine Elementary School lists 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.4:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 99% of students at Sunshine Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Sunshine Elementary School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 48.7%; this one delivers 65.8%, a residual of +17.0 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Rutherford County indicate median household earnings sit near $51,410, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Rutherford County's 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,205 students), Sunshine Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Mt. Vernon-Ruth Elementary School, roughly 6.3 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sunshine Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 54.3%.

Sunshine Elementary School operates from an outlying location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Sunshine Elementary School's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 215 (now 217). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 today.

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