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If you had an hour of school board time for Sunny Hills Elementary, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
574
Elementary
DISTRICT 452 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ISSAQUAH SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530375000581
Sunny Hills Elementary
3200 ISSAQUAH-PINE LAKE RD SE, SAMMAMISH, WA 98075 · (425) 837-7400 · King County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL574 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.3:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
11%
65 students
DISTRICT 18% · STATE 51%
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 | 79 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 96 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 102 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 107 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 86 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 104 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (79) is 24% smaller than its 5th grade class (104).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 68% · 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
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
79.6%
WA avg 58.4% . +0.6pp since 2014
Math
81.4%
WA avg 51.2% . +2.7pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 80 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2014, while math scores are up about 3 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 79.6% | 81.4% |
| 2023-24 | 82.7% | 83.6% |
| 2022-23 | 86.0% | 84.7% |
| 2021-22 | 85.0% | 82.0% |
| 2018-19 | 82.8% | 81.2% |
| 2017-18 | 78.5% | 79.0% |
| 2016-17 | 82.2% | 79.4% |
| 2015-16 | 80.7% | 78.2% |
| 2014-15 | 79.0% | 78.7% |
% Met or Exceeded Standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Smarter Balanced + WCAS. 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
82.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
72.6%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 82% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 73% typical for Washington 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 Washington'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 Sunny Hills Elementary
Sunny Hills Elementary's state test result (82.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunny Hills Elementary this school | 574 | 11.3% | 82.5% |
| Grand Ridge Elementary Issaquah | 558 | 8.6% | 82.9% |
| Forest View Elementary School Everett | 634 | 14.8% | 83.0% |
| Ruby Bridges Elementary Woodinville | 503 | 13.1% | 68.9% |
| Bennett Elementary School Bellevue | 513 | 7.8% | 75.7% |
| Endeavour Elementary School ISSAQUAH | 473 | 10.4% | 87.6% |
Matched among Washington 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 Sunny Hills Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 82.5% | #34 of 936 | #29 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 81.4% | #35 of 1,103 ▼ 8 | #28 of 281 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 79.6% | #57 of 1,102 ▼ 19 | #46 of 280 ▼ 17 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.0pp | #220 of 928 | #67 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 574 | #141 of 1,268 | #36 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.9:1 | #796 of 1,085 | #205 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.9% | #419 of 1,088 | #193 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 11.3% | #1,112 of 1,169 | #242 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.7% | #388 of 778 | #123 of 220 |
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
574
-228 (-28%) vs 2020
-10% since 1990-91, when it was 637
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
was 16.7:1
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 | 574 | 34 | 16.9:1 | 11% (65) |
| 2023-24 | 565 | 33.7 | 16.8:1 | 11% (62) |
| 2022-23 | 559 | 34.1 | 16.4:1 | 10% (54) |
| 2020-21 | 802 | 48 | 16.7:1 | 5% (44) |
| 2017-18 | 689 | 38.5 | 17.9:1 | 4% (27) |
| 2015-16 | 610 | 32 | 19.1:1 | 5% (32) |
| 2010-11 | 569 | 28 | 20.3:1 | 5% (31) |
| 2000-01 | 620 | 28 | 22.1:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 637 | 27 | 23.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sunny Hills Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 17% (689 to 574); teachers down 12% (38.5 to 34).
About Sunny Hills Elementary
Sunny Hills Elementary is a high-enrollment elementary school located in SAMMAMISH, Washington. A federal count lists 574 students at the school, in kindergarten through 5. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Washington) has about 380 students.
The Issaquah School District system has 30 schools and 19,098 students.
Asian students are the majority at Sunny Hills Elementary, with 50% of enrollment. Other groups make up 28% White, 11% multiracial, and 9% Hispanic. King County as a whole is about 21% Asian, so the school's share is higher. Pick two students at random and there is a 65% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Sunny Hills Elementary counts 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 16.9 students for each one. That is close to the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington. About 11% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits. Compared with the 38% average for public schools in King County, the school's rate is lower.
Compared with Washington schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Sunny Hills Elementary's results are 9.9 points above predicted: 82.5% against 72.6%.
Census Bureau estimates for King County show that the median household income is $124,746, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 57%, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. There are 544 public schools in King County, enrolling about 278,492 students in all.
Nearby, Pine Lake Middle School is about 0.2 miles away. Within five miles of Sunny Hills Elementary, there are at least 8 other public schools. Sunny Hills Elementary is 3rd of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal data show a 28% enrollment decrease, from 802 in 2020-21 to 574 in 2024-25.
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King County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,287,171
Census ACS
Median income
$124,746
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
544
278,492 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Issaquah School District
- Issaquah High SchoolHigh · 2,419 students
- Skyline High SchoolHigh · 2,244 students
- Liberty Sr High SchoolHigh · 1,495 students
- Pine Lake Middle SchoolMiddle · 877 students
- Maywood Middle SchoolMiddle · 826 students
- Issaquah Middle SchoolMiddle · 808 students
Other schools in SAMMAMISH
- Eastlake High SchoolHigh · 2,481 students
- Skyline High SchoolHigh · 2,244 students
- Inglewood Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,229 students
- Pine Lake Middle SchoolMiddle · 877 students
- Margaret Mead ElementaryElementary · 580 students
- Creekside ElementaryElementary · 555 students
Nearby schools
- Pine Lake Middle School0.2 mi · 877
- Discovery Elementary0.7 mi · 508
- Cedar Trails Elementary0.9 mi · 374
- Beaver Lake Middle School1.0 mi · 699
- Challenger Elementary1.1 mi · 350
- Skyline High School1.4 mi · 2,244
Frequently asked questions
About Sunny Hills ElementaryHow large is Sunny Hills Elementary?
Sunny Hills Elementary enrolls approximately 574 students in grades KG-05.
Is Sunny Hills Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Sunny Hills Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Sunny Hills Elementary have?
Sunny Hills Elementary employs 34 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.9:1.
How diverse is Sunny Hills Elementary?
Sunny Hills Elementary reports a student body of 28% White, 9% Hispanic, 1% Black, 50% Asian, 11% Two or more.
What district is Sunny Hills Elementary in?
Sunny Hills Elementary is part of Issaquah School District.
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