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Enrollment
503
Elementary
DISTRICT 393 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SOUTH KITSAP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530816001803
Sunnyslope Elementary School
4183 SUNNYSLOPE RD SW, PORT ORCHARD, WA 98367 · (360) 443-3470 · Kitsap County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL503 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 48% of Washington public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- FThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Washington public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
42%
210 students
DISTRICT 47% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 2 | 0% |
| Kindergarten | 81 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 73 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 83 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 108 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 64 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 92 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (81) is 12% smaller than its 5th grade class (92).
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 56% · 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
56.6%
WA avg 58.4% . +2.6pp since 2014
Math
53.2%
WA avg 51.2% . -1.9pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 2 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 56.6% | 53.2% |
| 2023-24 | 55.8% | 48.4% |
| 2022-23 | 52.7% | 51.8% |
| 2021-22 | 66.4% | 60.4% |
| 2018-19 | 64.8% | 60.4% |
| 2017-18 | 58.5% | 56.0% |
| 2016-17 | 63.4% | 59.1% |
| 2015-16 | 64.6% | 60.5% |
| 2014-15 | 54.0% | 55.1% |
% 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
54.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.2%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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 Sunnyslope Elementary School
Sunnyslope Elementary School's state test result (54.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunnyslope Elementary School this school | 503 | 41.7% | 54.7% |
| Sidney Glen Elementary School PORT ORCHARD | 502 | 42.2% | 46.9% |
| Michael T Simmons Elementary Tumwater | 457 | 43.5% | 58.9% |
| Pioneer Elementary Arlington | 501 | 39.3% | 43.5% |
| Liberty Ridge Elementary Sumner | 515 | 46.0% | 62.9% |
| Woodland Elementary Lacey | 458 | 42.4% | 51.2% |
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 Sunnyslope Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Kitsap County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.7% | #352 of 936 | #15 of 38 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.2% | #383 of 1,103 ▲ 91 | #14 of 38 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.6% | #370 of 1,102 ▲ 12 | #16 of 38 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -8.4pp | #56 of 928 | #4 of 38 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 503 | #279 of 1,268 | #3 of 43 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.1:1 | #354 of 1,085 | #20 of 37 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.7% | #526 of 1,088 | #19 of 37 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 41.7% | #776 of 1,169 | #21 of 38 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.7% | #727 of 778 | #30 of 32 |
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
503
+52 (+12%) vs 2020
+7% since 1990-91, when it was 471
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
was 14.6:1
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 | 503 | 33.4 | 15.1:1 | 42% (210) |
| 2023-24 | 492 | 33.3 | 14.8:1 | 39% (192) |
| 2022-23 | 437 | 29 | 15.1:1 | 33% (143) |
| 2020-21 | 451 | 31 | 14.6:1 | 26% (119) |
| 2017-18 | 517 | 27 | 19.2:1 | 31% (158) |
| 2015-16 | 501 | 26 | 19.3:1 | 33% (167) |
| 2010-11 | 551 | 27 | 20.4:1 | 24% (133) |
| 2000-01 | 517 | 28 | 18.5:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 471 | 23 | 20.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sunnyslope Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (517 to 503); teachers up 24% (27 to 33.4).
About Sunnyslope Elementary School
Sunnyslope Elementary School sits in PORT ORCHARD, Washington, and is classified as an elementary school. It educates 503 students in pre-K through 5. The average for elementary schools in Washington is about 380 students, so this school is 32% bigger than average.
The 17 schools in South Kitsap School District enroll 9,326 students altogether, Sunnyslope Elementary School among them.
By race and ethnicity, Sunnyslope Elementary School is 59% White. The school is also 20% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, 4% Asian, and 2% Black. That is lower than the 75% White share among all Kitsap County residents. By the diversity index, Sunnyslope Elementary School comes in at 60%.
The school employs the equivalent of 33.4 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 15.1:1. Among elementary schools in Washington, the typical ratio is 17.3:1. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 42%. That is close to the 41% average for public schools in Kitsap County.
The allk12 Grade for Sunnyslope Elementary School is B-. Compared with Washington public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 48% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Compared with Washington schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Sunnyslope Elementary School's results are 2.5 points above predicted: 54.7% against 52.2%.
Kitsap County has these Census figures: median household income is about $104,158, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 38% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 5%. The public schools of Kitsap County number 77 and enroll about 34,233.
Kitsap Co Detention Ctr is the public school closest to Sunnyslope Elementary School, about 3.1 miles away. Sunnyslope Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Sunnyslope Elementary School ranks 1st of 5 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 54.7% against a local average of 45.6%.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Mid-size, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment up 12%, from 451 to 503.
Conversations here can range across sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
Kitsap County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
277,881
Census ACS
Median income
$104,158
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
77
34,233 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in South Kitsap School District
- South Kitsap High SchoolHigh · 2,448 students
- John Sedgwick Middle SchoolMiddle · 731 students
- Cedar Heights Middle SchoolMiddle · 689 students
- Marcus Whitman Middle SchoolMiddle · 623 students
- Orchard Heights ElementaryElementary · 529 students
- Sidney Glen Elementary SchoolElementary · 502 students
Other schools in PORT ORCHARD
- South Kitsap High SchoolHigh · 2,448 students
- John Sedgwick Middle SchoolMiddle · 731 students
- Cedar Heights Middle SchoolMiddle · 689 students
- Marcus Whitman Middle SchoolMiddle · 623 students
- Orchard Heights ElementaryElementary · 529 students
- Sidney Glen Elementary SchoolElementary · 502 students
Other Sunnyslope Elementary schools
6 other US public schools in 4 states are named Sunnyslope Elementary. Sunnyslope Elementary School is the 4th largest of the 7.
- Sunnyslope Elementary SchoolWENATCHEE, WA · 292 students
- Sunnyslope ElementaryJurupa Valley, CA · 819 students
- Sunnyslope Elementary SchoolPHOENIX, AZ · 684 students
- Sunnyslope ElementaryHollister, CA · 602 students
- Sunnyslope ElementarySan Diego, CA · 324 students
Nearby schools
- Kitsap Co Detention Ctr3.1 mi · 2
- Sidney Glen Elementary School3.6 mi · 502
- Cedar Heights Middle School3.6 mi · 689
- West Hills S.T.E.M. Academy4.3 mi · 283
- Kitsap Lake Elementary4.5 mi · 336
- West Sound Technical Skills Center4.7 mi · 8
Frequently asked questions
About Sunnyslope Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Sunnyslope Elementary School?
Sunnyslope Elementary School enrolls approximately 503 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Sunnyslope Elementary School serve?
Sunnyslope Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Sunnyslope Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Sunnyslope Elementary School is approximately 15.1:1 (33 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Sunnyslope Elementary School?
At Sunnyslope Elementary School, the student body is approximately 59% White, 20% Hispanic, 2% Black, 4% Asian, 13% Two or more.
Who oversees Sunnyslope Elementary School?
Sunnyslope Elementary School is overseen by South Kitsap School District in Kitsap County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.