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Sunrise Elementary School

Public Grades PK, KG-5
1887th
SchoolDigger Rank ?
of 2,258 Florida Elementary Schools
Better than 16% of Florida elementary schools
Summary

Sunrise Elementary School is a public elementary school in Deltona, Florida, serving 445 students in grades PK-5. The school is part of the Volusia County School District, which is ranked 28th out of 67 districts in the state and has a 3-star rating from SchoolDigger.

Sunrise Elementary faces several key challenges. The school has consistently high chronic absenteeism rates, ranging from 30.9% to 34.1% over the past few years, significantly higher than the state and district averages. Academically, Sunrise Elementary's proficiency rates in English Language Arts and Math are lower than the Volusia County and Florida state averages. For example, in the 2024-2025 school year, Sunrise's 3rd grade ELA proficiency was 48%, compared to the county average of 57%. The school's 5th grade science proficiency rate of 40% also trails the county and state averages.

Sunrise Elementary serves a higher proportion of economically disadvantaged students, with 62.48% to 76.16% of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch over the past few years. This is in contrast to nearby schools like Timbercrest Elementary, Enterprise Elementary, and Osteen Elementary, which consistently outperform Sunrise in academic measures. The higher per-student spending at Sunrise, $12,575 in 2023-2024, suggests a need for more targeted and effective allocation of resources to address the school's challenges.

428
Students ?
13.4
Student/teacher ratio ?
$12,499
Per pupil spending ?
62.4%
Free/discounted lunch ?
 3155 Phonetia Dr
       Deltona, FL  32738

(407) 328-5530

District: Volusia


Students who attend Sunrise Elementary School usually attend:

Middle:    Heritage Middle School
High:    Pine Ridge High School
Racial breakdown:

White:
44.6%
Hispanic:
34.8%
African American:
13.6%
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At a glance
Ranking trend: Rebounding — 9th percentile in 2024 → 16th in 2025
Strengths
Ranking is rebounding — up to 16th (2025) from a 9th-percentile low (2024)
Worth a look
!Test scores below the Florida average (41% vs 58% meeting standards)
!In the lower quartile statewide (16th percentile)
!Math scores 20 pts below the Florida average
Students meeting standards (2024-2025) ?
This school41%
District avg59%
Florida avg58%
1,887th of 2,258
Florida public elementary schools ?
Bottom 16%▼ down 19 pts since 2016
From bottom 35% (2016) to bottom 16% (2025)
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SchoolDigger rating ?
44th of 48Elementary Schools in the Volusia
28th of 67Volusia among Florida districts
Statewide rank percentile over time (100 = the top-ranked school in the state; click a legend item to add a student group)
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All Students

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankFlorida percentileRating
202520.71887 of 225816.4%★☆☆☆☆
202414.12060 of 22568.7%☆☆☆☆☆
202322.21829 of 224018.3%★☆☆☆☆
202215.61983 of 221910.6%★☆☆☆☆
202139.21333 of 224740.7%★★☆☆☆
201938.91344 of 218238.4%★★☆☆☆
201833.81433 of 211832.3%★★☆☆☆
201744.61180 of 211244.1%★★☆☆☆
201636.41353 of 208735.2%★★☆☆☆
201441.01231 of 206440.4%★★☆☆☆
201345.51106 of 202945.5%★★☆☆☆
201250.6983 of 198450.5%★★★☆☆
201154.0962 of 198551.5%★★★☆☆
201051.7996 of 191948.1%★★☆☆☆
200957.6826 of 184755.3%★★★☆☆
200857.9784 of 178956.2%★★★☆☆
200746.01022 of 178642.8%★★☆☆☆
200650.8860 of 168849.1%★★☆☆☆
By subject vs Florida (2024-2025) ?
English Language Arts43%-14 vs state
Math40%-20 vs state
Science40%-15 vs state

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Students at Sunrise Elementary School are 45% White, 35% Hispanic, 14% African American, 5% Two or more races, 2% Asian.

Students who attend Sunrise Elementary School usually go on to attend:

Middle : Heritage Middle School
High : Pine Ridge High School

In the 2024-25 school year, 428 students attended Sunrise Elementary School.

Sunrise Elementary School ranks in the bottom 16.4% of Florida elementary schools.


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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Florida Department of Education.

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