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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the SUNRISE MOUNTAIN EL administration to hear?
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Enrollment
397
Elementary
DISTRICT 487 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EL PASO ISD·NCES 481830005985
Sunrise Mountain Elementary School
7710 PANDORA ST, EL PASO, TX 79904 · (915) 587-3560 · El Paso County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL397 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
12.4:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
93%
370 students
DISTRICT 76% · STATE 65%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 48 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 58 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 49 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 57 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 68 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 56 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 61 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (58) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (61).
Student demographics
7%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 28% · STATE 63% · 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
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
54.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +31.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
40.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +27.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 40 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 31 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 27 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 22.0% | 32.0% | 25.0% | 21.0% |
| Mathematics | 15.0% | 25.0% | 27.0% | 33.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 54.0% | 40.0% |
| 2024-25 | 58.0% | 45.0% |
| 2023-24 | 48.0% | 41.0% |
| 2022-23 | 31.0% | 41.0% |
| 2021-22 | 37.0% | 30.0% |
| 2020-21 | 23.0% | 13.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. 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
41.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.9%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% typical for Texas 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 Texas'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 Sunrise Mountain Elementary School
Sunrise Mountain Elementary School's state test result (41.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunrise Mountain Elementary School this school | 397 | 93.2% | 41.5% |
| Hillcrest Elementary School SAN ANTONIO | 400 | 93.3% | 34.5% |
| John Doedyns Elementary School SAN JUAN | 391 | 93.9% | 40.2% |
| Passmore Elementary School SAN ANTONIO | 384 | 91.9% | 22.8% |
| Janowski Elementary School HOUSTON | 395 | 94.7% | 47.0% |
| Sam Rosen Elementary School FORT WORTH | 407 | 95.1% | 24.6% |
Matched among Texas 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 Sunrise Mountain Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In El Paso County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 41.5% | #2,399 of 4,401 | #81 of 133 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 40.0% | #2,847 of 4,466 ▼ 725 | #98 of 133 ▼ 27 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.0% | #2,037 of 4,466 ▼ 442 | #73 of 133 ▼ 17 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +11.0pp | #1,309 of 3,998 | #43 of 132 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 397 | #3,504 of 4,938 | #100 of 141 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.4:1 | #494 of 4,622 | #18 of 134 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 6.9% | #4,234 of 4,628 | #94 of 134 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 93.2% | #713 of 4,789 | #13 of 139 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -25.7% | #716 of 2,838 | #39 of 93 |
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
397
-68 (-15%) vs 2020
-56% since 1990-91, when it was 901
Student : Teacher
12.4:1
was 13.7:1
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 | 397 | 32 | 12.4:1 | 93% (370) |
| 2023-24 | 416 | 32.1 | 13.0:1 | 95% (396) |
| 2022-23 | 473 | 33.6 | 14.1:1 | 95% (449) |
| 2020-21 | 465 | 34 | 13.7:1 | 95% (444) |
| 2017-18 | 534 | 34 | 15.7:1 | 93% (495) |
| 2015-16 | 578 | 38 | 15.2:1 | 97% (561) |
| 2010-11 | 708 | 43 | 16.5:1 | 94% (663) |
| 2000-01 | 898 | 59 | 15.2:1 | 93% (839) |
| 1990-91 | 901 | 49 | 18.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sunrise Mountain Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 26% (534 to 397); teachers down 6% (34 to 32).
About Sunrise Mountain Elementary School
Sunrise Mountain Elementary School, a small elementary school, is located in EL PASO, Texas. The school's enrollment of 397 students covers pre-K through 5. Enrollment is 24% lower than the average for elementary schools in Texas, which is about 519.
Sunrise Mountain Elementary School is run by EL PASO ISD, whose 76 schools enroll 48,118 students.
Federal enrollment data show Sunrise Mountain Elementary School is 96% Hispanic. El Paso County's residents are about 83% Hispanic, 14 points below the school's share. Pick two students at random and there is a 7% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Sunrise Mountain Elementary School operates with 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 12.4:1. On average, elementary schools in Texas have 15.1:1, compared with 12.4:1 here. Sunrise Mountain Elementary School reports 93% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The rate at public schools in El Paso County averages 74%, lower than here.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Sunrise Mountain Elementary School falls in the middle 80% of Texas schools: 41.5% actual against 33.9% predicted.
County data help place the school in context: in El Paso County, the median household income is $59,806, about 26% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 16% of residents are in poverty. In all, El Paso County has 273 public schools and roughly 165,404 students.
The school nearest to Sunrise Mountain Elementary School is Magoffin Middle School, at a distance of about 0.4 miles. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 34.6%; Sunrise Mountain Elementary School's is 41.5%, ranking 2nd of 9.
Sunrise Mountain Elementary School has an NCES locale of City: Large.
Enrollment is down 15% from 2020-21, when Sunrise Mountain Elementary School had 465 students, to 2024-25, when it had 397. Students per teacher fell from 13.7 in 2020-21 to 12.4 in 2024-25.
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El Paso County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
870,779
Census ACS
Median income
$59,806
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
16%
Below federal line
Schools in county
273
165,404 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in EL PASO ISD
- Franklin High SchoolHigh · 2,835 students
- Coronado High SchoolHigh · 2,576 students
- Chapin High SchoolHigh · 1,766 students
- El Paso High SchoolHigh · 1,636 students
- Hornedo Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,442 students
- Don Haskins PK-8Elementary · 1,405 students
Other schools in EL PASO
- Eastlake High SchoolHigh · 3,004 students
- Pebble Hills High SchoolHigh · 2,952 students
- Franklin High SchoolHigh · 2,835 students
- Socorro High SchoolHigh · 2,579 students
- Coronado High SchoolHigh · 2,576 students
- Montwood High SchoolHigh · 2,499 students
Nearby schools
- Magoffin Middle School0.4 mi · 541
- Logan Elementary School0.9 mi · 606
- H R Moye Elementary School1.1 mi · 286
- Chapin High School1.1 mi · 1,766
- Colin L Powell Elementary School1.5 mi · 576
- Stanton Elementary School1.5 mi · 366
Frequently asked questions
About Sunrise Mountain Elementary SchoolHow large is Sunrise Mountain Elementary School?
Sunrise Mountain Elementary School enrolls approximately 397 students in grades PK-05.
Is Sunrise Mountain Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Sunrise Mountain Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Sunrise Mountain Elementary School have?
Sunrise Mountain Elementary School employs 32 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.4:1.
How diverse is Sunrise Mountain Elementary School?
Sunrise Mountain Elementary School reports a student body of 2% White, 96% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Sunrise Mountain Elementary School?
Sunrise Mountain Elementary School is overseen by EL PASO ISD in El Paso County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.