Sunrise School

Sunrise School operates as a moderately sized elementary campus in SMITHFIELD, Utah, run under Cache District. Current enrollment sits at 713 students spanning grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 45% bigger than the state mean of about 491.

Across the 26 schools in Cache District (20,286 students total), Sunrise School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Sunrise School logs that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 8% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. Compared to Cache County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.9:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 17% of students at Sunrise School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Cache County's rate of about 31%.

After controlling for student poverty, Sunrise School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.6%, the actual is 64.3%, a residual of +12.7 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Cache County indicate the typical household earns roughly $81,665 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Cache County's 44 public schools (combined enrollment of about 28,291 students), Sunrise School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Sky View High, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sunrise School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sunrise School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 58.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Sunrise School's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 699 (now 713). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 91% to 87%.

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