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Sunrise Elementary

Northshore School District · Elementary · grades PK, K-5 · 14075 172nd Ave NE, Redmond, WA 98052-2197

Location

14075 172nd Ave NE, Redmond, WA 98052-2197

Academic snapshot

Meeting standard, latest year
90.5%
SBAC ELA+Math combined, 2024-25
Meeting standard, 3-year
91.1%
#5 of 558 elementary schools region-wide · #1 of 20 in this district
Exceeding standard, latest year
70.5%
SBAC Level 4, the top score band
Exceeding standard, 3-year
74.3%
#6 of 558 elementary schools region-wide · #1 of 20 in this district
3-year trend

Who attends

Students from low-income homes
6.2%
English language learners
6.8%
Highly Capable program
58.8%
Enrollment
323
Kids per typical block
Density band: unknown

Teachers

Teachers (latest)
19
Avg years experience
15.8
MA-degree share
84.2%
3-year experience trend

Avg years and MA-degree share are direct OSPI publications; the 3-year trend is our derivation. From data.wa.gov/yp28-ks6d.

Nearby schools

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Nearest middle schools by distance
Nearest Highly Capable cohort

Highly Capable / gifted pathway

Curated from district Highly Capable program pages, with observed-at dates and confidence labels.

Research dossier

Sunrise Elementary

Northshore School District · grades PreK–5 · 323 students · attendance-area school and legacy Elementary Advanced Program (EAP) host in mid-phase-out

The verdict

On paper Sunrise looks like Northshore's strongest elementary: 91% of students meeting standard, peer rankings near the top of the state, and an advanced chess club coached by a National Chess Master. One number explains almost all of it: 58.8% of the building is formally identified highly capable, because for years the district bused dual-qualified Elementary Advanced Program (EAP) students here from across Northshore. That era is ending. The district is dismantling its centralized EAP hubs in favor of neighborhood-based service, and Sunrise is caught mid-transition. Grades 2–4 now run an integrated cluster model, the current 5th grade is the last self-contained cohort, enrollment has thinned to 323, and the teaching staff contracted from 31 to 19 in three years. Boundary families are getting a strong, small school whose published scores describe a student body that is actively changing shape. Families hoping to route in from outside the boundary should understand that the destination those scores describe is being retired grade by grade.

Researched 2026-06-10. Citations and claim ledger included in the full dossier.

That is the free excerpt. The full dossier is the rest of the file: how these outcomes hold up in context, how deep the advanced-peer group actually runs, how families get in (and who doesn't), culture signals from handbooks and climate surveys, logistics, neighborhood context, the open questions to ask on your tour, and every citation, so you can check our work. Unlock it for $9, or get a $29 Research Pass with 3 dossiers included.

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