Sunrise Elementary

Sunrise Elementary, a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in Enumclaw, Washington, part of Enumclaw School District, works with 382 students, covering grades K through 5.

Enumclaw School District runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 4,564 students. Sunrise Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Sunrise Elementary lists that White students make up the majority at 70%. The remainder looks like 19% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. By comparison, King County as a whole is about 55% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. Roughly 36% of students at Sunrise Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Sunrise Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 55.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 49.9%.

Around the school, census data for King County shows median household income runs about $124,746, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Sunrise Elementary is one of 544 public schools in King County (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students).

Nearest neighbor: Southwood Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Sunrise Elementary comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 50.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sunrise Elementary has shrank 9%, going from 422 students in 2018 to 382 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 77% to 70% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 in 2025.

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