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What advice would you give to incoming students at Bitely (Arlene) Elementary?
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Enrollment
409
Elementary
DISTRICT 364 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GARVEY ELEMENTARY·NCES 061494008850
Bitely (Arlene) Elementary
7501 East Fern Ave., Rosemead, CA 91770 · (626) 307-3318 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL409 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 84% of California public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
23.4:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.7:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
81%
330 students
DISTRICT 77% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 70 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 54 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 56 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 36 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 62 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 62 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (70) is 13% larger than its 6th grade class (62).
Student demographics
54%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
56.7%
CA avg 49.1% . +2.7pp since 2014
Math
53.4%
CA avg 37.7% . +7.4pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 7 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 28.9% | 27.8% | 18.6% | 24.7% |
| Math | 29.3% | 24.0% | 25.0% | 21.6% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 56.7% | 53.4% |
| 2023-24 | 54.2% | 46.8% |
| 2022-23 | 48.4% | 46.8% |
| 2021-22 | 56.0% | 52.4% |
| 2018-19 | 64.9% | 61.7% |
| 2017-18 | 61.4% | 55.9% |
| 2016-17 | 59.0% | 48.6% |
| 2015-16 | 62.0% | 47.0% |
| 2014-15 | 54.0% | 46.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
54.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.3%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+21.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 32% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 22 points, placing it in California's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Bitely (Arlene) Elementary
Bitely (Arlene) Elementary's state test result (54.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bitely (Arlene) Elementary this school | 409 | 80.7% | 54.0% |
| Ethel M. Evans Elementary Garden Grove | 410 | 79.8% | 56.5% |
| Anderson Elementary Garden Grove | 445 | 80.4% | 27.0% |
| Savannah Elementary Rosemead | 365 | 77.3% | 42.8% |
| Dewey Avenue Elementary San Gabriel | 341 | 78.3% | 37.0% |
| Faylane Elementary Garden Grove | 466 | 77.7% | 57.1% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Bitely (Arlene) Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.0% | #1,460 of 5,151 | #333 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.4% | #1,386 of 5,172 ▲ 318 | #322 of 1,129 ▲ 66 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.7% | #1,563 of 5,172 ▲ 40 | #350 of 1,129 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.8pp | #3,075 of 5,116 | #755 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 409 | #3,572 of 5,915 | #758 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 23.4:1 | #3,264 of 5,352 | #781 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.3% | #2,407 of 5,354 | #377 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 80.7% | #2,132 of 5,625 | #683 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.9% | #1,322 of 3,837 | #469 of 947 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
409
-94 (-19%) vs 2020
-30% since 1990-91, when it was 582
Student : Teacher
23.4:1
was 23.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 409 | 17.5 | 23.4:1 | 81% (330) |
| 2023-24 | 437 | 18 | 24.3:1 | 72% (316) |
| 2022-23 | 453 | 17.2 | 26.4:1 | 77% (350) |
| 2020-21 | 503 | 21 | 23.9:1 | 75% (377) |
| 2017-18 | 517 | 22 | 23.5:1 | 87% (450) |
| 2015-16 | 522 | 21 | 24.9:1 | 89% (462) |
| 2010-11 | 585 | N/A | N/A | 91% (530) |
| 2000-01 | 584 | 28 | 20.9:1 | 87% (506) |
| 1990-91 | 582 | 24 | 24.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bitely (Arlene) Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 21% (517 to 409); teachers down 20% (22 to 17.5).
About Bitely (Arlene) Elementary
Bitely (Arlene) Elementary is one of the public schools in Rosemead, California. It is a medium-sized elementary school. It enrolled 409 students in kindergarten through 6 for the 2024-25 school year.
In Garvey Elementary, 11 schools enroll a combined 4,235 students.
Roughly 52% of students at Bitely (Arlene) Elementary are Hispanic. Other groups make up 43% Asian and 3% multiracial. The county population is about 48% Hispanic, within a few points of the school. Pick two students at random and there is a 54% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The count of teachers at Bitely (Arlene) Elementary is 17.5 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 23.4:1. That is 1.1 students per teacher above the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California. Around 81% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. On average, public schools in Los Angeles County report 70%.
Measured against California public elementary schools, Bitely (Arlene) Elementary receives an A-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
On BeatsExpectations, which compares test results with what a school's student poverty level would predict, Bitely (Arlene) Elementary ranks in the top 10% in California. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 54.0%, against a prediction of 32.3%.
Los Angeles County has about 9,808,667 residents, and the median household income is $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Besides Bitely (Arlene) Elementary, Los Angeles County has 2,243 other public schools.
The school nearest to Bitely (Arlene) Elementary is Garvey (Richard) Intermediate, at a distance of about 0.2 miles. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Bitely (Arlene) Elementary places 7th of 9 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Bitely (Arlene) Elementary's enrollment dropped from 503 in 2020-21 to 409 in 2024-25.
Community posts for Bitely (Arlene) Elementary can cover school safety, transportation, and start times. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Los Angeles County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
9,808,667
Census ACS
Median income
$90,112
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
2,244
1,265,907 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Garvey Elementary
- Garvey (Richard) IntermediateMiddle · 661 students
- Monterey Vista ElementaryElementary · 542 students
- Hillcrest ElementaryElementary · 439 students
- Emerson (Ralph Waldo) ElementaryElementary · 390 students
- Dewey Avenue ElementaryElementary · 341 students
- Temple (Roger W.) IntermediateMiddle · 297 students
Other schools in Rosemead
- Rosemead HighHigh · 1,691 students
- Garvey (Richard) IntermediateMiddle · 661 students
- Mildred B. Janson ElementaryElementary · 575 students
- Muscatel MiddleMiddle · 511 students
- Emma W. Shuey ElementaryElementary · 450 students
- Encinita ElementaryElementary · 418 students
Nearby schools
- Garvey (Richard) Intermediate0.2 mi · 661
- Monterey Vista Elementary0.4 mi · 542
- Emerson (Ralph Waldo) Elementary0.4 mi · 390
- Duff Language Magnet Academy0.7 mi · 291
- Hillcrest Elementary0.9 mi · 439
- Mark Keppel High0.9 mi · 2,201
Frequently asked questions
About Bitely (Arlene) ElementaryHow many students attend Bitely (Arlene) Elementary?
Bitely (Arlene) Elementary enrolls approximately 409 students in grades KG-06.
Is Bitely (Arlene) Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Bitely (Arlene) Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
How many teachers does Bitely (Arlene) Elementary have?
Bitely (Arlene) Elementary employs 18 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 23.4:1.
How diverse is Bitely (Arlene) Elementary?
Bitely (Arlene) Elementary reports a student body of 0% White, 52% Hispanic, 0% Black, 43% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Bitely (Arlene) Elementary?
Bitely (Arlene) Elementary is overseen by Garvey Elementary in Los Angeles County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.