Sunrise El Sch

As a mid-tier elementary school in Irwin, Pennsylvania, Sunrise El Sch caters to 412 students from grades K through 5, run under Penn-Trafford SD.

Penn-Trafford SD comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 3,773 students; Sunrise El Sch is among them.

Looking at the student body, Sunrise El Sch lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%); the rest comes out to 3% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. Compared to Westmoreland County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Sunrise El Sch has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. About 17% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Westmoreland County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Sunrise El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.2%, the actual is 85.5%, a residual of +15.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Westmoreland County put median household earnings sit near $74,109, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Sunrise El Sch is one of 85 public schools in Westmoreland County (combined enrollment of about 41,302 students).

Nearest neighbor: Sheridan Terrace El Sch, around 2.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sunrise El Sch. On composite proficiency, Sunrise El Sch comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 78.9%.

Sunrise El Sch operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Sunrise El Sch's enrollment has grew 32% since 2018, when it stood at 313 (now 412).

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