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What advice would you give to incoming students at Sunrise Elementary?
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Enrollment
724
Elementary
DISTRICT 517 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PUYALLUP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530696001041
Sunrise Elementary
2323 39th Ave SE, Puyallup, WA 98374 · (253) 841-8744 · Pierce County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL724 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.8:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.5:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
53%
387 students
DISTRICT 49% · 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 | 23 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 84 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 78 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 86 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 124 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 100 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 111 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 118 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (84) is 29% smaller than its 6th grade class (118).
Student demographics
72%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · 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
36.6%
WA avg 58.4% . -2.0pp since 2014
Math
34.7%
WA avg 51.2% . -0.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 35 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2014, while math scores have held steady.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 36.6% | 34.7% |
| 2023-24 | 39.8% | 39.8% |
| 2022-23 | 42.5% | 35.3% |
| 2021-22 | 51.5% | 41.7% |
| 2018-19 | 59.0% | 54.6% |
| 2017-18 | 57.2% | 55.6% |
| 2016-17 | 54.6% | 48.5% |
| 2015-16 | 55.5% | 56.4% |
| 2014-15 | 38.6% | 34.8% |
% 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
39.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.3%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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 Sunrise Elementary
Sunrise Elementary's state test result (39.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunrise Elementary this school | 724 | 53.5% | 39.1% |
| Woodland Elementary Puyallup | 606 | 49.8% | 59.9% |
| Warren Hunt Elem Puyallup | 681 | 48.9% | 46.2% |
| Clover Creek Elementary Tacoma | 617 | 51.5% | 54.6% |
| Walnut Grove Elementary VANCOUVER | 681 | 60.1% | N/A |
| Pioneer Valley Elementary Spanaway | 524 | 56.5% | 56.2% |
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 Sunrise Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Pierce County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.1% | #646 of 936 | #104 of 142 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 34.7% | #780 of 1,103 ▼ 147 | #111 of 142 ▼ 21 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 36.6% | #834 of 1,102 ▼ 100 | #119 of 142 ▼ 15 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -11.0pp | #27 of 928 | #6 of 141 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 724 | #23 of 1,268 | #5 of 155 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.8:1 | #765 of 1,085 | #94 of 145 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.3% | #212 of 1,088 | #65 of 145 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 53.5% | #567 of 1,169 | #69 of 148 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +51.8% | #6 of 257 | #2 of 43 |
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
724
+29 (+4%) vs 2020
+15% since 1990-91, when it was 628
Student : Teacher
16.8:1
was 16.2:1
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 | 724 | 43.2 | 16.8:1 | 53% (387) |
| 2023-24 | 700 | 41.9 | 16.7:1 | 54% (381) |
| 2022-23 | 685 | 40.4 | 16.9:1 | 55% (377) |
| 2020-21 | 695 | 43 | 16.2:1 | 50% (345) |
| 2017-18 | 477 | 29.5 | 16.1:1 | 43% (204) |
| 2015-16 | 517 | 27 | 19.1:1 | 48% (248) |
| 2010-11 | 536 | 25 | 21.4:1 | 46% (246) |
| 2000-01 | 500 | 24 | 20.8:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 628 | 28 | 22.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sunrise Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 52% (477 to 724); teachers up 46% (29.5 to 43.2).
About Sunrise Elementary
Sunrise Elementary is an elementary school in Puyallup, Washington, according to federal school records. The school enrolls 724 students, from pre-K through 6. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Washington) has about 380 students.
Puyallup School District has 23,026 students spread across 37 schools.
The most common group at Sunrise Elementary is White students, at 45%. Other groups include 20% Hispanic, 16% multiracial, 7% Black, and 6% Asian. The county population is about 64% White. Sunrise Elementary's diversity index is 72%, against a US figure of 70%.
Teachers at the school number 43.2 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 16.8:1. That matches the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington fairly closely. Roughly 53% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Pierce County average 50%.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Sunrise Elementary would be expected to post about 44.3%. Its actual average proficiency rate on state tests is 39.1%.
In Pierce County (population about 930,319), the median household income is $99,564, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 31%, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. There are 287 public schools in Pierce County, enrolling about 138,462 students in all.
Nearest public school: Ferrucci Jr High, about 0.5 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Sunrise Elementary at 7th of 8.
Federal data place Sunrise Elementary in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it 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 4% enrollment increase, from 695 in 2020-21 to 724 in 2024-25.
The Sunrise Elementary community page is open for posts about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Pierce County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
930,319
Census ACS
Median income
$99,564
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
287
138,462 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Puyallup School District
- Puyallup High SchoolHigh · 1,815 students
- Gov John Rogers High SchoolHigh · 1,788 students
- Emerald Ridge High SchoolHigh · 1,599 students
- Dessie F Evans ElementaryElementary · 919 students
- Ballou Jr HighMiddle · 852 students
- Doris Stahl Junior HighMiddle · 846 students
Other schools in Puyallup
- Puyallup High SchoolHigh · 1,815 students
- Gov John Rogers High SchoolHigh · 1,788 students
- Emerald Ridge High SchoolHigh · 1,599 students
- Dessie F Evans ElementaryElementary · 919 students
- Ballou Jr HighMiddle · 852 students
- Doris Stahl Junior HighMiddle · 846 students
Other Sunrise Elementary schools
29 other US public schools in 15 states are named Sunrise Elementary. Sunrise Elementary is the 6th largest of the 30.
- Sunrise ElementarySpokane Valley, WA · 644 students
- Sunrise Elementary SchoolKent, WA · 512 students
- Sunrise ElementaryEnumclaw, WA · 382 students
- Sunrise ElementaryRedmond, WA · 322 students
- SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLOCALA, FL · 1,402 students
Nearby schools
- Ferrucci Jr High0.5 mi · 815
- Wildwood Elementary0.9 mi · 364
- Ridgecrest Elementary1.1 mi · 456
- Shaw Road Elementary1.9 mi · 615
- Warren Hunt Elem2.0 mi · 681
- Firgrove Elementary2.2 mi · 593
Frequently asked questions
About Sunrise ElementaryHow many students attend Sunrise Elementary?
Sunrise Elementary enrolls approximately 724 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does Sunrise Elementary serve?
Sunrise Elementary serves grades PK-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Sunrise Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Sunrise Elementary is approximately 16.8:1 (43 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Sunrise Elementary?
At Sunrise Elementary, the student body is approximately 45% White, 20% Hispanic, 7% Black, 6% Asian, 16% Two or more.
What district is Sunrise Elementary in?
Sunrise Elementary is part of Puyallup School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.