Sunrise Elementary, formerly Burnley-Moran, 1300 Long St.: grades K-5, 306 students in fall 2025, rated Distinguished. Office: 434-245-2413.

Last checked Oct. 19, 2026. Sources: Sunrise Elementary School, Charlottesville City Schools, the Virginia Department of Education’s School Quality Profile and the federal NCES school directory.

Sunrise Elementary School, formerly Burnley-Moran Elementary, is a Charlottesville City Schools neighborhood elementary school for kindergarten through fifth grade on Long Street in the city’s east end. It is one of six city elementary schools, each with its own attendance zone.

Who to call

  • Front office: 434-245-2413, sunrise@charlottesvilleschools.org
  • Registrar (new students): Tracy Coleman, 434-245-2413
  • Division office: 434-245-2400, 1562 Dairy Road
  • Director of Student Services (enrollment questions): 434-245-2405
  • Buses: the city’s Pupil Transportation Department runs school buses; walk zone questions go to 434-245-2400
Address 1300 Long St., Charlottesville, VA 22901
Phone 434-245-2413
Grades Kindergarten to 5
School day 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Website sunrise.charlottesvilleschools.org
Division Charlottesville City Schools

Principal

Principal Brad Handrich, according to the school’s website. The page says he came from Albemarle County Public Schools, where he had been principal of Baker-Butler Elementary since 2023.

Enrollment and teachers

  • State count: 306 students in fall 2025, up from 299 in 2024 and 285 in 2023, in the School Quality Profile. The fall 2025 count covers preschool through fourth grade; the school now serves kindergarten through fifth grade.
  • Federal count: 285 students (then Burnley-Moran Elementary) in the 2023-24 school year, with 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, according to the NCES directory. That works out to about 13 students per teacher.

State report card

Virginia rates schools two ways. Accreditation checks that a school has the programs, staff and facilities the state requires. The School Performance and Support Framework gives each school a score with a target of 80 points; points are “assigned based on items ranging from test scores to attendance,” and the measures differ by school level, the division explained when the results came out Oct. 7.

  • Accreditation, 2025-26: Fully Accredited
  • Framework score: 97.63, rated Distinguished, in the division summary. Sunrise is the only city school rated Distinguished, the state’s top level, which the division says goes to schools scoring more than 90 points.

Standards of Learning pass rates (share of tested students who passed):

Subject 2023-24 2024-25 2025-26
English reading 76% 83% 83%
Math 78% 87% 88%

The full profile also reports attendance and teacher data.

Attendance zone and feeder schools

Find the elementary school for any city address with the city’s GIS viewer: enter the street, click the property and look under “Additional Data,” as the division’s attendance zones page explains. After elementary school, all city students attend Charlottesville Middle School (grades 6-8) and Charlottesville High School (grades 9-12).

Rezoning: under the division’s rezoning plan, Sunrise gains students from Summit in August 2027 (those living west of Kindlewood) and in August 2029 at the earliest (Kindlewood itself). Also in August 2029 at the earliest, Sunrise students living north of U.S. 250 (the Locust Grove and Park Street areas) move to Greenbrier. The division says the timing depends on new housing construction, and fourth and fifth graders at the time of a change can apply to stay at their current school. Check an address on the rezoning map.

City residents can ask to attend a school outside their zone for child care reasons, a move during the school year or a rezoning, under School Board Policy JC; the annual out-of-zone application is on the zones page. Our neighborhoods guide shows which elementary zone each part of the city is in.

Calendar and bell times

From the division’s 2026-27 calendar:

  • Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 2-3: no school for students (staff days; Nov. 3 is Election Day)
  • Thursday, Nov. 26: Thanksgiving; the full break is marked on the calendar PDF
  • Friday, Dec. 18: second grading period ends
  • Friday, May 28, 2027: last day of school, with an early dismissal

Elementary schools run 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., with doors open at 7:40 a.m. and early dismissal at noon, according to the division’s daily routines page.

School life

The school’s website lists family literacy night, the annual Bobcat Boogie, spirit days and an end-of-year field day, plus monthly school-wide morning meetings hosted by a different grade each month. The PTO and volunteers work with the school, and families can sign up for a guided tour.

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Frequently asked questions

What grades does Sunrise Elementary School serve?

Kindergarten through fifth grade. Sunrise is one of six neighborhood elementary schools in Charlottesville City Schools, at 1300 Long St.

How is Sunrise Elementary School rated by the state?

It is fully accredited. In the Virginia School Performance and Support Framework results announced Oct. 7, it scored 97.63 and is rated Distinguished.

Which middle school does Sunrise Elementary School feed into?

Charlottesville Middle School, then Charlottesville High School. All city elementary schools feed the same middle and high school.

What time does Sunrise Elementary School start?

City elementary schools run from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., with doors open at 7:40 a.m. Early dismissal is at noon.