Emerson (Ralph Waldo) Elementary

Emerson (Ralph Waldo) Elementary is a primary school of small scale in Rosemead, California, part of Garvey Elementary, hosting 390 students in grades K through 6.

Garvey Elementary comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 4,235 students; Emerson (Ralph Waldo) Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Emerson (Ralph Waldo) Elementary reports that 56% of the student body identifies as Asian; the rest breaks down as 39% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 77% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Emerson (Ralph Waldo) Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.5%, the actual is 40.3%, a residual of +6.8 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household income runs about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Emerson (Ralph Waldo) Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Garvey (Richard) Intermediate, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Emerson (Ralph Waldo) Elementary ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 58.2%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 24%: 514 students in 2018 compared to 390 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 33% to 39% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 25.7:1 in 2018 to 20.5:1 in 2025.

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