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Enrollment
322
Elementary
DISTRICT 478 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NORTHSHORE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530591001993
Sunrise Elementary
14075 172 AV NE, Redmond, WA 98052 · (425) 408-5300 · King County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL322 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
18.7:1
17 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.9:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
6%
20 students
DISTRICT 21% · 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 | 1 | 0% |
| Kindergarten | 23 | 7% |
| Grade 1 | 34 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 52 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 58 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 71 | 22% |
| Grade 5 | 83 | 26% |
This year's kindergarten class (23) is 72% smaller than its 5th grade class (83).
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
90.7%
WA avg 58.4% . +2.5pp since 2014
Math
90.3%
WA avg 51.2% . +2.0pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 91 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 90 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 2 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 2 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 90.7% | 90.3% |
| 2023-24 | 93.7% | 92.9% |
| 2022-23 | 94.7% | 91.4% |
| 2021-22 | 92.7% | 90.8% |
| 2018-19 | 90.2% | 85.9% |
| 2017-18 | 91.5% | 91.0% |
| 2016-17 | 89.7% | 90.5% |
| 2015-16 | 92.1% | 93.8% |
| 2014-15 | 88.3% | 88.3% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of WA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
91.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
76.0%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 91% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 76% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 15 points, placing it in Washington's top 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 (91.2% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunrise Elementary this school | 322 | 6.2% | 91.2% |
| John J. Audubon Elementary Redmond | 431 | 7.9% | 81.5% |
| Emily Dickinson Elementary Redmond | 294 | 13.3% | 73.7% |
| West Mercer Elementary Mercer Island | 431 | 7.9% | 84.5% |
| Lakeridge Elementary School Mercer Island | 401 | 3.5% | 87.3% |
| Cougar Ridge Elementary BELLEVUE | 458 | 10.7% | 82.0% |
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 King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 91.2% | #5 of 936 | #5 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 90.3% | #8 of 1,103 ▼ 4 | #8 of 281 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 90.7% | #7 of 1,102 ▼ 5 | #7 of 280 ▼ 5 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.2pp | #315 of 928 | #102 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 322 | #889 of 1,268 | #237 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.7:1 | #1,016 of 1,085 | #259 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.5% | #404 of 1,088 | #187 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 6.2% | #1,147 of 1,169 | #272 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.5% | #615 of 778 | #182 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
322
-56 (-15%) vs 2020
-49% since 1990-91, when it was 634
Student : Teacher
18.7:1
was 16.4:1
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 | 322 | 17.2 | 18.7:1 | 6% (20) |
| 2023-24 | 375 | 21.6 | 17.4:1 | 5% (20) |
| 2022-23 | 445 | 26.2 | 17.0:1 | 4% (19) |
| 2020-21 | 378 | 23 | 16.4:1 | 2% (9) |
| 2017-18 | 348 | 19.2 | 18.1:1 | 1% (3) |
| 2015-16 | 391 | 20 | 19.6:1 | 3% (13) |
| 2010-11 | 325 | 18 | 18.1:1 | 6% (18) |
| 2000-01 | 438 | 24 | 18.3:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 634 | 28 | 22.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sunrise Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (348 to 322); teachers down 10% (19.2 to 17.2).
About Sunrise Elementary
Sunrise Elementary is one of the public schools in Redmond, Washington. It is a small elementary school. The school counts 322 students across pre-K through 5.
Sunrise Elementary is one school in Northshore School District, a system of 37 schools with 22,735 students.
The most common group at Sunrise Elementary is White students, at 40%. Other groups include 40% Asian, 15% multiracial, and 5% Hispanic. The county population is about 55% White. Sunrise Elementary's diversity index is 65%, against a US figure of 70%.
Sunrise Elementary counts 17.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 18.7 students for each one. This ratio sits 1.4 above the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington. About 6% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits. Among public schools in King County, the average eligibility rate is 38%.
Sunrise Elementary is 15.1 points above expectations on state tests, given its student poverty level, placing it in the top 10% in Washington.
Recent Census Bureau figures 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. Besides Sunrise Elementary, King County has 543 other public schools.
The closest other public school is Clara Barton Elementary School, about 1.3 miles away. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, Sunrise Elementary ranks 1st on average proficiency.
NCES assigns Sunrise Elementary the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 56 fewer students in 2024-25. There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (18.7:1) than in 2020-21 (16.4:1).
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.
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 Northshore School District
- North Creek High SchoolHigh · 1,910 students
- Bothell High SchoolHigh · 1,740 students
- Woodinville HSHigh · 1,662 students
- Inglemoor HSHigh · 1,441 students
- Skyview Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,215 students
- Canyon Park Middle SchoolMiddle · 907 students
Other schools in Redmond
- Redmond High SchoolHigh · 2,304 students
- Redmond Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,009 students
- Rose Hill Middle SchoolMiddle · 901 students
- Timberline Middle SchoolMiddle · 788 students
- Evergreen Middle SchoolMiddle · 761 students
- Benjamin Rush ElementaryElementary · 631 students
Other Sunrise Elementary schools
29 other US public schools in 15 states are named Sunrise Elementary. Sunrise Elementary is the 26th largest of the 30.
- Sunrise ElementaryPuyallup, WA · 724 students
- Sunrise ElementarySpokane Valley, WA · 644 students
- Sunrise Elementary SchoolKent, WA · 512 students
- Sunrise ElementaryEnumclaw, WA · 382 students
- SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLOCALA, FL · 1,402 students
Nearby schools
- Clara Barton Elementary School1.3 mi · 452
- Albert Einstein Elementary1.8 mi · 448
- Cottage Lake Elementary1.8 mi · 258
- Norman Rockwell Elementary2.1 mi · 423
- Redmond High School2.2 mi · 2,304
- Hollywood Hill Elementary2.2 mi · 331
Frequently asked questions
About Sunrise ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Sunrise Elementary?
Sunrise Elementary enrolls approximately 322 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Sunrise Elementary serve?
Sunrise Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Sunrise Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Sunrise Elementary is approximately 18.7:1 (17 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Sunrise Elementary?
Sunrise Elementary reports a student body of 40% White, 5% Hispanic, 40% Asian, 15% Two or more.
Who oversees Sunrise Elementary?
Sunrise Elementary is overseen by Northshore School District in King County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.