Minecraft – Do Passive Mobs need Sunlight

Well, first of all dark room mob spawners aren't very effective unless put to a large scale. I would suggest that you make a 30 by 30 platform which can have another platform 10 blocks above, it has to be nighttime and no other mobs are allowed to spawn around the building, also, you have to have holes in the floor with trapdoors, you can make the trapdoors activate at the hit of a lever. The reason why you want to use trapdoors that are open is because mob AI detect trapdoors as standing blocks whether they are open or closed, also, no water because of update with drowned. Also, its a good idea not to build on slime chunks, can decrease entity spawning. Lastly, one thing for you to check, do /kill @e to reset the entity spawning in area.

This does seem to be a bug: blocks at the top of the world don't block sunlight. I would suggest reporting the issue at the MCPE issue tracker; in the meantime as a workaround you can drop the ceiling down a block and that should fix it.