Prekindergarten · Regular · Grades PK
Sunshine Center, Independence, MO
Sunshine Center is a public prekindergarten school in Independence, part of Independence 30 School District. It enrolled 106 students in 2024-25.Listed in NCES data as "SUNSHINE CENTER".
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 106
- Teachers (FTE)
- 0.0
- Grades
- PK
School details
- Address
- 18400 East Salisbury Road, Independence, MO 64056
- Phone
- (816)461-0893
- District
- Independence 30 School District
- County
- Jackson County
- Level
- Prekindergarten
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- NCES school ID
- 291548003157
School meals
Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
- Free lunch
- 55
- Reduced-price lunch
- 1
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 5652.8% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 30Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- No
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other prekindergarten schools in Independence 30 School District
- Hanthorn Early Education 180 students
Prekindergarten schools elsewhere in Independence
- Early Childhood Ctr. Fort Osage R-I School District
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.