Original Research by School Decision on Sunrise School
Sunrise School sits at 465 Lincoln Street in Lander, the county seat of Fremont County, Wyoming. It is listed as serving grades one through twelve, is not a charter school, and is not designated a magnet. Its parent entity is BOCES 5, a Board of Cooperative Educational Services district, which in Wyoming typically supports shared or specialized educational services across member districts rather than operating as a conventional single-school district. This structural detail matters because it shapes what a parent can reasonably expect to find here.
The most important thing to say plainly is that the reported enrollment for Sunrise School is zero across every grade. No students are counted in the data for any grade level from one through twelve. Because of this, the racial and ethnic breakdown, the free-or-reduced-price lunch count, the individualized education program figures, and English learner counts are either reported as zero or missing entirely. A school with no enrolled students will not produce proficiency results, graduation rates, or attendance figures, and none appear in the data. State testing data was not available. Four-year graduation rate data was not available. Chronic absenteeism data was not available. We looked for the school's strategic priorities, program offerings, course access, staffing, and discipline information and found none reported. Rather than guess at what programs might exist, we are noting those gaps directly.
The comparison set, labeled "relative to districts in Fremont County," places this school among eight county districts, but because no proficiency index, graduation rate, or absenteeism figure exists for the school, the comparison is not applicable on any of those metrics. This is a consequence of the zero-enrollment reporting, not a reflection of academic performance. A parent should not read the absence of results as a sign of weakness. It reflects the nature of the entity as currently captured in the data.
What we can describe is the community around it. Lander is a small city and the government and cultural center of Fremont County. The economy runs on outdoor recreation, healthcare, education, construction, retail, and summer tourism. The town is the headquarters of the National Outdoor Leadership School and is home to Wyoming Catholic College. Federal and state offices are major employers, including the U.S. Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality. Eagle Bronze, a major bronze foundry, is based here. Several environmental nonprofits maintain offices in town. Civic anchors include the Fremont County Library, the Lander Art Center, and multiple museums covering regional history and the American West. Sinks Canyon State Park, Shoshone National Forest, and the Wind River Range sit just outside town. The built environment is a small Western downtown with a designated historic district centered on Main Street, and street life is largely event-driven, with the Pioneer Days Parade and Rodeo, the International Climbers Festival, the Lander Brew Festival, and the Wyoming State Winter Fair drawing seasonal crowds. Lander is not near any major interstate highway, and no public transit system appears in publicly reported sources.
The housing market in the school's zip code sits slightly above the Wyoming state benchmark and just above the national benchmark, with modest year-over-year appreciation. Rental data was not available for this location. Current mortgage rates hover in the mid-six percent range, and the national unemployment rate has held steady in the low fours. These macro figures give a general sense of the cost environment a family would face living in Lander, though they do not speak to anything specific about the school itself.
What a parent is left with is thin. Sunrise School appears in the records as an open entity under a cooperative services district, but the data does not show an enrolled student body, and without students there are no academic outcomes to characterize. If you are considering this school for your child, the most useful next step is to contact the school or BOCES 5 directly to ask whether it currently operates as a functioning instructional program, what students it is designed to serve, and how it relates to the conventional public schools in the Lander area such as Lander Valley High School. The data on the page cannot answer those questions, and we will not invent answers where the record is silent.
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