Some 35 professionals came to our 7th annual Career Fair – nurses, lawyers, veterinarians, healers, artists, musicians, engineers, counselors, athletes, chefs, hair stylists and more. Thanks for being so inspiring!
Check out some images of the day here!

Sunrise Middle held its 1st Annual Coding and Robotics Family Night, where we celebrated the learning that has occurred through a generous donation from Wells Fargo and the Silicon Valley Education Foundation.

Students taught their parents everything they’ve been learning with programming and coding.

Sunrise Middle students kicked off a 21-day Kindness Challenge. Each day we will practice a special act of kindness to sharpen our awareness for the need to spread kindness, not hate. We will become aware that each thought we hold is for good or for bad – nothing is ever neutral!

The Santa Clara County Board of Education, by unanimous vote, has approved another five-year charter renewal for Sunrise Middle School. The new charter includes the addition of a fifth grade class.

To enroll your student for next year, please visit the school office prior to the December 11 lottery, or download the on-line short application and submit to the school prior to the lottery date.

We appreciate the vote of confidence from the County Board and continue to work at improving each year!

Jessica De Anda, sixth grade English teacher, was honored as a Santa Clara County Teacher of the Year! This is Ms. De Anda’s fourth year teaching at Sunrise. She is a very dedicated teacher and also leads the English department. Ms. DeAnda believes in a student-centered classroom where students are empowered and active participants in their own education.

Sunrise students for the second year in a row had the highest English scores on the state exam of all charter or district middle schools in the central/downtown San Jose area. Forty-six percent of the students met or exceeded proficiency standards in ELA, according to Spring 2018 results released by the California Department of Education this week. Twenty-six percent of the students met or exceeded proficiency for math, which was about average for the nine central San Jose schools.

Furthermore, the test results show Sunrise is closing the achievement gap for low-income students. In math, economically disadvantaged students actually did 1 percentage point better than students with economic advantage. In English, the economically disadvantaged students were only four percentage points behind the students with economic advantage.

Sunrise students return to school this Wednesday, August 15 – following a productive summer for many. Sunrise had it’s first ever Sunrise Plaza restaurant and conducted a major project on homelessness that included building tiny home communities, interviewing the homeless and presenting ideas to the mayor’s office. This year Sunrise will have its first ever Project Based Learning class in which students will focus on nutrition, poverty, human rights, animal rights, immigration, climate change and again, homelessness.

Happy Summer!

Sunrise parents and students, we wish you a happy summer! Please sign up for our summer program if you have not already. If you will not be in our summer program please continue to read each day, exercise plenty and eat healthfully! Here is a USDA interactive map that will allow families to find open sites closest to their location: https://www.fns.usda.gov/summerfoodrocks.

We are looking forward to seeing you at our back to school night, 6 p.m. Tuesday, August 7, and on the first day of school, Wednesday, August 15.

Year-end NWEA local testing shows that the number of students meeting or exceeding the national average for reading and math has grown tremendously this school year.

At the beginning of the year, 22 percent of our students were at the 50th percentile or above nationally in math; now, 47 percent are at or above the 50th percentile.

And for reading, 31.6 percent of our student were at or above the 50th percentile in August, and now, 42.7 percent are.

Amazing results! Congratulations, Aztecs!

Thirty-five professionals participated in Sunrise Middle School’s 5th Annual Career Day Jan. 24. These included City Councilman Raul Peralez, Pulitzer Prize-winning Mercury News reporters, a veterinarian, legal assistant, probation officers, firefighters, engineers, musicians, artists, DJ Chuy Gomez from 105.7, a nurse oncologist, and more.

career day video