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Sunrise Elementary

Public Grades PK, KG-6
115th
SchoolDigger Rank ?
of 148 Wyoming Elementary Schools
Better than 22% of Wyoming elementary schools
Summary

Sunrise Elementary in Cheyenne, Wyoming, serves pre-K through grade 6 and enrolls 315 students in Laramie County School District #1, which SchoolDigger ranks at the 41st percentile statewide. The school’s most important academic concern is that proficiency is below state averages in all three tested subjects, with fourth-grade math particularly weak.

Sunrise’s strongest subject compared with state results is science: its 2025–26 average was 51%, versus 56% statewide and 52% districtwide. Math is furthest behind the state, at 51% versus 60%; English Language Arts (ELA) was 49% versus 58%. Fourth-grade math is a pronounced weak spot: 39% of students were proficient, compared with 63% statewide and 57% in the district, making Sunrise the second-lowest among ten schools with results for that grade. Sixth grade offers a counterpoint: math proficiency was 62%, above the state’s 57% and the district’s 56%; Sunrise’s 59% in sixth-grade ELA was also just above the district’s 59%. In nearby-school comparisons, fourth-grade science was close to the average, while fifth-grade math was stronger than the nearby average: 46% versus 37%.

Results have improved since 2022–23, especially in science, which rose 27 percentage points, from 24% to 51%; math rose 13 points and ELA 11. The recent pattern is mixed: math and science improved from 2024–25, while ELA was nearly unchanged at 49% and its gap to the state widened. SchoolDigger ranks Sunrise at the 22nd percentile with 1 star in 2025–26; among nine nearby schools with rankings, the average was at the 40th percentile. Sunrise’s student-teacher ratio was 11.6 in 2024–25, close to the nearby average of 11.3, and 71% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. SchoolDigger’s statewide measure of how well the school serves Special Education Students was at the 52nd percentile, compared with 22nd overall; for Hispanic Students, it fell from the 35th percentile in 2023–24 to the 11th in 2025–26.

315
Students ?
11.6
Student/teacher ratio ?
$19,293
Per pupil spending ?
71.4%
Free/reduced lunch eligible (2024-25) ?
 5021 East 13th Street
       Cheyenne, WY  82001

(307) 771-2280

District: Laramie County School District #1


Students who attend Sunrise Elementary usually attend:

Middle:    Johnson Junior High School
High:    South High School
Racial breakdown:

White:
57.5%
Hispanic:
31.1%
Two or more races:
7.3%
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At a glance
▲ Ranking trend: Improving — 7th percentile in 2016 → 22nd in 2026
Strengths
✓Ranking is trending up — up 15 percentile points since 2016
✓Small classes — about 12 students per teacher
Worth a look
!Test scores below the Wyoming average (50% vs 59% meeting standards)
!In the lower quartile statewide (22nd percentile)
Students meeting standards (2025-2026) ?
This school50%
District avg55%
Wyoming avg59%
115th of 148
Wyoming public elementary schools ?
Bottom 22%▲ up 16 pts since 2016
From bottom 7% (2016) to bottom 22% (2026)
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★★★★★
SchoolDigger rating ?
15th of 25Elementary Schools in the Laramie County School District #1
26th of 44Laramie County School District #1 among Wyoming 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 rankWyoming percentileRating
202632.5115 of 14822.3%★☆☆☆☆
202529.1121 of 14918.8%★☆☆☆☆
202428.8118 of 14719.7%★☆☆☆☆
202318.1131 of 14610.3%★☆☆☆☆
202215.1128 of 14411.1%★☆☆☆☆
202117.5138 of 1539.8%★☆☆☆☆
201919.3136 of 15311.1%★☆☆☆☆
201824.6128 of 14712.9%★☆☆☆☆
201724.5130 of 15113.9%★☆☆☆☆
201614.7138 of 1486.8%☆☆☆☆☆
201518.5137 of 15411.0%★☆☆☆☆
201423.5133 of 1479.5%★☆☆☆☆
201314.1133 of 1426.3%☆☆☆☆☆
201221.1128 of 14310.5%★☆☆☆☆
201123.6134 of 15211.8%★☆☆☆☆
201019.0137 of 1508.7%☆☆☆☆☆
200928.2132 of 15012.0%★☆☆☆☆

Disabled

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankWyoming percentileRating
202237.447 of 7234.7%★★☆☆☆

Female

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankWyoming percentileRating
202635.1100 of 13123.7%★☆☆☆☆
202533.897 of 12824.2%★☆☆☆☆
202439.589 of 12528.8%★★☆☆☆
202327.2105 of 12918.6%★☆☆☆☆
202215.4114 of 1269.5%★☆☆☆☆
202118.6119 of 1329.8%★☆☆☆☆
201924.0116 of 13614.7%★☆☆☆☆
201821.1113 of 1259.6%★☆☆☆☆

Hispanic

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankWyoming percentileRating
202626.059 of 6610.6%★☆☆☆☆
202528.953 of 6619.7%★☆☆☆☆
202438.141 of 6334.9%★★☆☆☆
202323.747 of 5514.5%★☆☆☆☆
202233.943 of 6028.3%★☆☆☆☆
202127.058 of 6713.4%★☆☆☆☆
201935.058 of 7522.7%★☆☆☆☆
201837.449 of 7030.0%★★☆☆☆

Low Socio Economic Status

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankWyoming percentileRating
202649.965 of 12949.6%★★★☆☆
202545.179 of 12737.8%★★☆☆☆
202424.2104 of 12214.8%★☆☆☆☆
202325.698 of 11514.8%★☆☆☆☆
202223.392 of 11016.4%★☆☆☆☆
202117.5113 of 1195.0%☆☆☆☆☆
201920.7120 of 1329.1%☆☆☆☆☆

Male

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankWyoming percentileRating
202633.4101 of 13122.9%★☆☆☆☆
202526.8109 of 13318.0%★☆☆☆☆
202423.8107 of 13017.7%★☆☆☆☆
202312.8123 of 1326.8%☆☆☆☆☆
202216.8114 of 12710.2%★☆☆☆☆
202120.4121 of 1349.7%★☆☆☆☆
201918.5126 of 1388.7%☆☆☆☆☆
201834.093 of 12626.2%★☆☆☆☆

Military Connected

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankWyoming percentileRating
202232.65 of 50.0%★★★☆☆
202158.12 of 560.0%★★★★☆

Special Education

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankWyoming percentileRating
202648.941 of 8652.3%★★★☆☆
202556.827 of 8166.7%★★★☆☆
202419.778 of 847.1%☆☆☆☆☆
202337.055 of 7728.6%★★☆☆☆
202132.354 of 7123.9%★☆☆☆☆
201935.553 of 7529.3%★★☆☆☆
201841.936 of 6443.8%★★☆☆☆

White

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankWyoming percentileRating
202648.558 of 10444.2%★★☆☆☆
202538.377 of 10526.7%★☆☆☆☆
202433.780 of 10523.8%★☆☆☆☆
202325.285 of 10115.8%★☆☆☆☆
202219.390 of 10312.6%★☆☆☆☆
202122.799 of 11312.4%★☆☆☆☆
201921.3108 of 12010.0%★☆☆☆☆
201828.584 of 10318.4%★☆☆☆☆
How student groups rank statewide ? (each group's percentile vs the same group at other schools — higher is better; the +/- beside each compares the group with this school's overall percentile)
Special Education (2026)52nd percentile+30 vs school
Low Socio Economic Status (2026)50th percentile+27 vs school
White (2026)44th percentile+22 vs school
Disabled (2022)35th percentile+24 vs school
Female (2026)24th percentile~ school
Male (2026)23rd percentile~ school
Hispanic (2026)11th percentile-12 vs school
Military Connected (2022)<1st percentile-11 vs school
By subject vs Wyoming (2025-2026) ?
Science51%-5 vs state
Mathematics50%-10 vs state
English Language Arts49%-9 vs state

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Students who attend Sunrise Elementary usually go on to attend:

Middle : Johnson Junior High School
High : South High School

In the 2024-25 school year, 315 students attended Sunrise Elementary.

Sunrise Elementary ranks in the bottom 22.3% of Wyoming elementary schools.

Students at Sunrise Elementary are 57% White, 31% Hispanic, 7% Two or more races, 4% African American.

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Latest Wyoming data All new data »
2025–26 ACT & WY-TOPP test scoresOct 16, 2026
2024–25 graduation ratesJan 29, 2026
2024–25 ACT & WY-TOPP test scoresAug 29, 2025
2017–18 through 2023–24 graduation ratesMay 9, 2025


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

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