Sunrise Family Updates
12.1.23
Hi Sunrise Families!
Hi All - I hope this message finds you well! Thank you for bundling up your children as we have officially entered winter weather.
Next week, Wednesday, December 6th, students will bring home their report cards in their red folders. Thank you for taking time to sit down to review this with your child and then return the envelope in the red folder. You will notice we updated our envelopes to include a line for you to leave any comments or questions along with your signature. Feel free to do so as we appreciate your feedback.
Below I have also included information about our School Report Card. Thank you for taking the time to read it.
Have a great Friday and weekend!
Sincerely,
Katie Smullen
Sunrise Principal
Playground Campaign Update!!
Thanks to our amazing community of generous donors, we are officially one-third of the way to our goal! We have had a tremendous outpouring of sponsorships lately and would like to recognize them. We’d also like to invite you to consider joining them in our efforts.
For more information visit this link: https://sites.google.com/sbsdmail.../sbsdplaygrounds/home...
Community Classes!
We have some really really GREAT community programming classes planned for this coming new year! Special thanks to all of our instructors who creatively designed their classes and will be teaching this upcoming series. I hope many of you will be interested in also taking one or more of these classes. Sign up now through the end of December.
Door County Toys for Kids
Registration is still open and will remain open until December 4th for Door County Toys for Kids. Our next in-person registration will be Sunday, December 3rd at the PATH clubhouse (340 N Jaycee Ct) from 2:00 PM–4:00 PM. English link: and Spanish link:
Holiday Concert Info!
Sawyer and Sunrise students will have a concert rehearsal in the SBHS gym Friday, Dec. 15th during the school day and be dismissed at the end of the school day as usual. Parents are asked to bring their first grade-5th grade child/ren to SBHS the evening of Dec. 15th for their 6:00 pm concert in the HS Gym. Parking available in the parking lot behind the HS. Parents will drop off students in the MS Commons (located directly across from the HS Gym.) Students will be brought to the gym by grade level and seated in the visitor side bleachers. All students will perform the entire concert expected to last approximately 45 minutes. Dismissal after the concert will be by grade level beginning with first grade. One adult/parent/guardian will be asked to come and pick up their child from the bleacher area.
We are so excited to see all of our families together to celebrate the holidays and all our children in one location. We truly hope to see you all there!
22-23 Sunrise Report Card
District and school report cards for 22-23 as well as the required Notice of Educational Options have been posted to the district website on this page. Thank you for taking the time to read about how we did.
A little more information about the school report card: The school report card is one resource we use to reflect on our strengths and areas for improvement. The Department of Public Instruction (DPI) is required by state statute (Wis. Stat. 115.385) to generate a school report card and district report card for every publicly funded school and district in the state. The report cards are intended to help schools and districts use performance data to celebrate successes and improve their efforts to prepare students for their futures.
The current school report card is primarily based on last year’s performance during the 2022-23
school year. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, DPI encourages caution when interpreting scores
and ratings on the 2022-23 report cards. DPI encourages caution when interpreting scores and
ratings. Multiple years of data impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic are used throughout the
report card.
At the foundation of the report cards are four priority areas. Schools and districts receive a score
for each priority area:
● Achievement - proficiency in English language arts (ELA) and mathematics on the annual
state assessments
● Growth - year-to-year progress in ELA and math achievement
• Target Group Outcomes - outcomes for students with the lowest test scores
• On-Track to Graduation - reliable predictors of how successfully students are progressing
toward completing their K-12 education
The priority area scores are aggregated into an overall accountability score, from 0 to 100. This
score is displayed on the front page of the school or district report cards. It is important to note
that the 0 to 100 accountability score is not a “percent correct” measurement and is not aligned
with traditional 0-100 grading scales. Based on its score, a school or district receives one of five
rating categories, from Fails to Meet Expectations to Significantly Exceeds Expectations, as well as corresponding one to five stars.
I want to share these results with you because they help illuminate some of our successes and help pinpoint areas of focus in our school/district. But as DPI stresses, these report cards are just one source of information about our school.
Upcoming Events
- Friday, December 15 (at 6 p.m.) - Holiday Concert
- Monday, December 25 - Monday, January 1 - No School
Sunrise Elementary School
Email: ksmullen@sturbay.k12.wi.us
Website: https://www.sturbay.k12.wi.us/schools/sunrise/
Location: 1414 Rhode Island Street, Sturgeon Bay, WI, USA
Phone: (920)746-2814