SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in Bismarck, North Dakota, SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a sizable primary school, one of the schools within BISMARCK 1. It teaches 445 students across grades K through 5. That puts it 110% bigger than the typical public school in North Dakota, which averages around 212 students.

BISMARCK 1 comprises 26 schools with combined enrollment of 14,086 students; SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that nearly all students (82%) are White. The remainder consists of 6% Native American, 6% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, 2% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 17% of students at SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Burleigh County indicate median household income runs about $86,851, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Burleigh County runs 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,427 students), of which SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

LEGACY HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 31%: 641 students in 2018 compared to 445 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 92% to 82%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 in 2025.

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