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What's one thing Sunset Elementary School gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
378
Elementary
DISTRICT 381 · STATE 321
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HERMISTON SD 8·NCES 410630001094
Sunset Elementary School
300 E Catherine Ave, Hermiston, OR 97838 · (541) 667-6700 · Umatilla County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL378 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 30% of Oregon 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.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Oregon public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 16.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
92%
348 students
DISTRICT 92% · STATE 76%
Community
1
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 | 46 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 63 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 59 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 69 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 58 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 83 | 22% |
This year's kindergarten class (46) is 45% smaller than its 5th grade class (83).
Student demographics
31%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 59% · 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
OSAS 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
37.4%
OR avg 43.0% . +4.5pp since 2023
Math
26.3%
OR avg 31.8% . +0.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the OSAS, Oregon's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Oregon schools, those numbers are about 43 and 32. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
OSAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 37.4% | 26.3% |
| 2023-24 | 32.9% | 26.2% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: OSAS. 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
25.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.9%
based on OR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 27% typical for Oregon 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 Oregon'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 Sunset Elementary School
Sunset Elementary School's state test result (25.1% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunset Elementary School this school | 378 | 92.1% | 25.1% |
| Hallman Elementary School Salem | 339 | 88.8% | 9.5% |
| Hoover Elementary School Salem | 402 | 88.3% | 18.1% |
| Washington Elementary School Salem | 365 | 88.8% | 10.8% |
| Lamb Elementary School Salem | 436 | 90.4% | 13.3% |
| Cesar E Chavez Elementary Salem | 464 | 88.1% | 13.9% |
Matched among Oregon 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 Sunset Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Oregon | In Umatilla County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.1% | #445 of 591 | #12 of 14 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.3% | #432 of 646 ▲ 7 | #12 of 15 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.4% | #389 of 646 ▲ 50 | #8 of 15 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 378 | #252 of 710 | #8 of 16 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.0:1 | #63 of 587 | #2 of 13 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 30.7% | #535 of 587 | #13 of 13 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 92.1% | #123 of 645 | #5 of 16 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -35.5% | #37 of 493 | #2 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
378
-200 (-35%) vs 2020
-22% since 1990-91, when it was 485
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
was 17.0:1
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 | 378 | 27 | 14.0:1 | 92% (348) |
| 2023-24 | 428 | 26.6 | 16.1:1 | 67% (285) |
| 2022-23 | 426 | 27.9 | 15.3:1 | 67% (287) |
| 2020-21 | 578 | 34 | 17.0:1 | 73% (421) |
| 2017-18 | 586 | 31.5 | 18.6:1 | 80% (469) |
| 2015-16 | 591 | 31 | 19.1:1 | 82% (482) |
| 2010-11 | 506 | 25 | 20.2:1 | 69% (347) |
| 2000-01 | 466 | 27 | 17.3:1 | 67% (314) |
| 1990-91 | 485 | 25 | 19.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sunset Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 35% (586 to 378); teachers down 14% (31.5 to 27).
About Sunset Elementary School
Sunset Elementary School, located in Hermiston, Oregon, is a medium-sized elementary school. The student body numbers 378 students, from kindergarten through 5.
Sunset Elementary School reports to Hermiston SD 8, which has 9 schools and 5,320 students.
Hispanic students are the large majority at Sunset Elementary School, with 81% of enrollment. Enrollment also includes 17% White. Among people living in Umatilla County, the Hispanic share is about 30%. Sunset Elementary School has a diversity index of 31%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Sunset Elementary School's 27 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 14.0:1. That ratio is under the 16.5:1 average for elementary schools in Oregon. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 92%.
allk12 grades Sunset Elementary School a C. The grade compares the school only with Oregon public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Sunset Elementary School, the prediction is 26.9% and the result is 25.1%.
Among Umatilla County residents, median household income is about $67,728, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 18%, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Sunset Elementary School is one of 35 public schools in Umatilla County, which together enroll about 13,143 students.
Nearby, Rocky Heights Elementary School is about 0.5 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. On average proficiency, Sunset Elementary School is 9th of 9 nearby schools with test data.
By NCES locale, the school is Town: Distant, or in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count dropped from 578 to 378. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio fell from 17.0:1 to 14.0:1.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week at Sunset Elementary School. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Umatilla County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
79,940
Census ACS
Median income
$67,728
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
18%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
35
13,143 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Hermiston SD 8
- Hermiston High SchoolHigh · 1,705 students
- Armand Larive Middle SchoolMiddle · 722 students
- Sandstone Middle SchoolMiddle · 609 students
- Rocky Heights Elementary SchoolElementary · 442 students
- West Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 408 students
- Loma Vista ElementaryElementary · 397 students
Other schools in Hermiston
- Hermiston High SchoolHigh · 1,705 students
- Armand Larive Middle SchoolMiddle · 722 students
- Sandstone Middle SchoolMiddle · 609 students
- Rocky Heights Elementary SchoolElementary · 442 students
- West Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 408 students
- Loma Vista ElementaryElementary · 397 students
Other Sunset Elementary schools
23 other US public schools in 13 states are named Sunset Elementary. Sunset Elementary School is the 16th largest of the 24.
- SUNSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMIAMI, FL · 1,192 students
- Sunset ElementaryLivermore, CA · 759 students
- Sunset ElementaryAIRWAY HEIGHTS, WA · 634 students
- Sunset Elementary SchoolBrentwood, TN · 616 students
- Sunset Elementary SchoolMoultrie, GA · 614 students
Nearby schools
- Rocky Heights Elementary School0.5 mi · 442
- Hermiston High School0.6 mi · 1,705
- West Park Elementary School0.7 mi · 408
- Highland Hills Elementary School1.0 mi · 308
- Sandstone Middle School1.0 mi · 609
- Desert View Elementary School1.2 mi · 351
Frequently asked questions
About Sunset Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Sunset Elementary School?
Sunset Elementary School enrolls approximately 378 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Sunset Elementary School serve?
Sunset Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Sunset Elementary School have?
Sunset Elementary School employs 27 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.0:1.
What is the student diversity at Sunset Elementary School?
Student demographics at Sunset Elementary School are roughly 17% White, 81% Hispanic, 0% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is Sunset Elementary School in?
Sunset Elementary School is part of Hermiston SD 8.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.