The top reported proficiency rate is 100% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Sunrise High School
Sunrise High School in Brigham City serves students from grade five through twelve, but its actual enrollment tells a more specific story. The school is small, and nearly all of its students are in eleventh and twelfth grade, with only a handful enrolled in earlier high school grades. No students were reported in grades five through seven. That distribution, together with the fact that state testing records from a few years ago listed the school under the name Dale Young Community High, strongly suggests this is an alternative or community high school focused on older students—likely a setting for credit recovery, flexible scheduling, or specialized support rather than a traditional comprehensive high school. The school is part of the Box Elder District, and the district brief turned up no recent large-scale changes to report.
About half of the students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a share that reflects a moderate level of economic need. Brigham City itself is a county seat at the foot of the Wellsville Mountains, described locally as having a small-town atmosphere and a historic downtown. Manufacturing anchors the local economy, with large employers including Northrop Grumman, Autoliv, and Procter and Gamble. The city has seen steady population growth in recent years, and home values in the area place it in a middle range relative to national benchmarks. Most residential areas are car-dependent, but a historic Main Street functions as a civic and event hub. Parents considering Sunrise High School should be aware that the community context is that of an established, growing small city with a mix of industry and agriculture.
The available academic data is too thin to support any real judgment about student performance. State testing records exist for only one year, and they cover just a single seventh-grade student in math and reading. Both results showed that student meeting proficiency, but a one-student sample from one school year, now several years old, cannot be extrapolated to the school as a whole. Science testing data is even older and was suppressed. There is no graduation rate reported in the available data, no chronic absenteeism rate, and no information about staffing, course access, or discipline. The comparison fact-set, which places the school among the two districts in Box Elder County, shows a top-quartile proficiency index based on that single student result—a positioning that carries little weight given the underlying data. Families looking for evidence of academic outcomes, graduation trends, or program offerings will not find them in public records for this school.
What the data does convey is the school’s profile as a small, upper-grade-focused program serving a population with some economic need. How well it serves that population—whether students graduate, transition to college or careers, or receive adequate support—is not captured in the state metrics available here. A parent considering Sunrise High School would want to ask the school directly about graduation rates, credit pathways, and the supports it offers to the students who attend. The school’s limited public footprint may simply be a function of its alternative nature, but it also means that anyone evaluating this school will need to gather information from sources beyond the state data.
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