Sunnyside Elementary

Sunnyside Elementary operates as a mid-tier elementary-level community in Pullman, Washington, operated by Pullman School District. Current enrollment sits at 326 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Sunnyside Elementary is one of 6 schools operated by Pullman School District, a district that works with 2,731 students overall.

On demographics, Sunnyside Elementary shows that 68% of the student body identifies as White; the rest consists of 15% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 5% Asian, 3% Black. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 76%.

In terms of school funding signals, Sunnyside Elementary shows 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.9:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 30% of students at Sunnyside Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Whitman County (around 40%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Sunnyside Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.0%, the actual is 70.8%, a residual of +10.8 points.

In the broader community, census data for Whitman County shows the typical household earns roughly $55,406 per year, about 50% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Sunnyside Elementary is one of 28 public schools in Whitman County (combined enrollment of about 4,753 students).

Nearest neighbor: Pullman Community Montessori, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Sunnyside Elementary comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 63.0%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sunnyside Elementary has shrank 26%, going from 440 students in 2018 to 326 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 12% to 5% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 today.

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