Desert Rose Elementary

Set in Palmdale, California, Desert Rose Elementary is a reasonably sized K-5 school, overseen by Palmdale Elementary. It enrolls 614 students across grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 32% bigger than typical.

Palmdale Elementary runs 29 schools in total, collectively educating 17,941 students. Desert Rose Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Desert Rose Elementary reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 76% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 15% Black, 3% multiracial, 3% White. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Desert Rose Elementary logs 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 25.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Desert Rose Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 17.3%.

Around the school, Los Angeles County reports that median household income runs about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Desert Rose Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Cactus Medical Health and Technology Magnet Academy, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Desert Rose Elementary comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 19.9%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 27%: 843 students in 2018 compared to 614 in 2025.

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