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What's one community event at Monte Vista Elementary more people should show up to?
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Enrollment
489
Elementary
DISTRICT 424 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COTATI-ROHNERT PARK UNIFIED·NCES 060994009772
Monte Vista Elementary
1400 Magnolia Ave., Rohnert Park, CA 94928 · (707) 792-4531 · Sonoma County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL489 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 25% 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.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-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
21.2:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.1:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
47%
228 students
DISTRICT 52% · 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 | 117 | 24% |
| Grade 1 | 81 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 55 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 85 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 72 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 79 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (117) is 48% larger than its 5th grade class (79).
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
40.3%
CA avg 49.1% . +7.3pp since 2014
Math
32.0%
CA avg 37.7% . +5.0pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 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 7 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 5 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 18.6% | 21.7% | 18.6% | 41.1% |
| Math | 12.4% | 19.6% | 22.2% | 45.8% |
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 | 40.3% | 32.0% |
| 2023-24 | 43.7% | 37.9% |
| 2022-23 | 35.2% | 33.7% |
| 2021-22 | 39.0% | 36.4% |
| 2018-19 | 49.2% | 42.0% |
| 2017-18 | 54.8% | 33.2% |
| 2016-17 | 37.3% | 23.4% |
| 2015-16 | 32.0% | 26.0% |
| 2014-15 | 33.0% | 27.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
38.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.2%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 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 Monte Vista Elementary
Monte Vista Elementary's state test result (38.7% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monte Vista Elementary this school | 489 | 46.6% | 38.7% |
| Van Gogh Charter Granada Hills | 456 | 48.9% | 70.6% |
| C L Smith Elementary San Luis Obispo | 528 | 45.5% | 60.2% |
| Calavera Hills Elementary Carlsbad | 441 | 45.1% | 64.0% |
| Sycamore Academy of Science and Cultural Arts Wildomar | 486 | 46.5% | N/A |
| George Washington Elementary Burbank | 440 | 50.5% | 46.7% |
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 Monte Vista Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Sonoma County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.7% | #2,614 of 5,151 | #43 of 79 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.0% | #3,015 of 5,172 ▼ 663 | #46 of 79 ▼ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.3% | #2,908 of 5,172 ▼ 531 | #45 of 79 ▼ 5 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.6pp | #1,323 of 5,116 | #21 of 79 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 489 | #2,567 of 5,915 | #12 of 105 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.2:1 | #1,643 of 5,352 | #30 of 76 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.2% | #977 of 5,354 | #3 of 76 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 46.6% | #4,058 of 5,625 | #47 of 89 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.2% | #3,629 of 3,837 | #47 of 50 |
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
489
+35 (+8%) vs 2020
+85% since 1990-91, when it was 265
Student : Teacher
21.2:1
was 22.7:1
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 | 489 | 23.1 | 21.2:1 | 47% (228) |
| 2023-24 | 464 | 22 | 21.1:1 | 42% (194) |
| 2022-23 | 438 | 21 | 20.9:1 | 39% (173) |
| 2020-21 | 454 | 20 | 22.7:1 | 39% (175) |
| 2017-18 | 500 | 22.3 | 22.4:1 | 41% (204) |
| 2015-16 | 599 | 25 | 24.0:1 | 43% (258) |
| 2010-11 | 665 | N/A | N/A | 32% (216) |
| 2000-01 | 623 | 33 | 18.9:1 | 10% (62) |
| 1990-91 | 265 | 11 | 24.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Monte Vista Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (500 to 489); teachers up 3% (22.3 to 23.1).
About Monte Vista Elementary
Monte Vista Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school in Rohnert Park, California, under Cotati-Rohnert Park Unified. Students in kindergarten through 5 attend, and enrollment is 489 students.
Cotati-Rohnert Park Unified counts 6,296 students in its 12 schools, and Monte Vista Elementary is one of them.
White students form the largest group at Monte Vista Elementary, 40% of enrollment. Other groups include 39% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 7% Asian, and 2% Black. By comparison, Sonoma County residents are about 62% White. By the diversity index, Monte Vista Elementary comes in at 67%.
Staffing totals 23.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 21.2:1. That ratio is under the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California. The free or reduced-price lunch rate at Monte Vista Elementary is 47%.
Monte Vista Elementary is graded C by allk12, scoring above 25% of California public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
A school with Monte Vista Elementary's lunch-eligibility share in California is predicted to score 52.2%. Monte Vista Elementary scores 38.7%, 13.5 points below that line.
County data help place the school in context: in Sonoma County, median household income is about $104,674, roughly 39% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. The public schools of Sonoma County number 184 and enroll about 63,389.
The nearest other public school, Credo High, is about 0.4 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 30.2%; Monte Vista Elementary's is 38.7%, ranking 2nd of 6.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment up 8%, from 454 to 489. The ratio of students to teachers went from 22.7:1 to 21.2:1 over the same years.
Parents and students can post about school events, clubs, and volunteer needs at Monte Vista Elementary. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Sonoma County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
485,040
Census ACS
Median income
$104,674
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
184
63,389 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Cotati-Rohnert Park Unified
- Rancho Cotate HighHigh · 1,755 students
- Lawrence E. Jones MiddleMiddle · 775 students
- Evergreen ElementaryElementary · 630 students
- Marguerite Hahn ElementaryElementary · 478 students
- Thomas Page AcademyElementary · 428 students
- Technology MiddleMiddle · 409 students
Other schools in Rohnert Park
- Rancho Cotate HighHigh · 1,755 students
- Lawrence E. Jones MiddleMiddle · 775 students
- Evergreen ElementaryElementary · 630 students
- Marguerite Hahn ElementaryElementary · 478 students
- Credo HighHigh · 441 students
- Technology MiddleMiddle · 409 students
Other Monte Vista Elementary schools
13 other US public schools in 3 states are named Monte Vista Elementary. Monte Vista Elementary is the 9th largest of the 14.
- Monte Vista ElementaryLancaster, CA · 788 students
- Monte Vista ElementaryEl Monte, CA · 785 students
- Monte Vista ElementaryMurrieta, CA · 769 students
- Monte Vista ElementaryLa Crescenta, CA · 721 students
- Monte Vista ElementaryVista, CA · 556 students
Nearby schools
- Credo High0.4 mi · 441
- University Elementary at La Fiesta0.7 mi · 291
- Rancho Cotate High0.8 mi · 1,755
- El Camino High0.8 mi · 48
- Richard Crane Elementary0.9 mi · 274
- Technology High1.1 mi · 343
Frequently asked questions
About Monte Vista ElementaryHow large is Monte Vista Elementary?
Monte Vista Elementary enrolls approximately 489 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Monte Vista Elementary serve?
Monte Vista Elementary serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Monte Vista Elementary have?
Monte Vista Elementary employs 23 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 21.2:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Monte Vista Elementary?
At Monte Vista Elementary, the student body is approximately 40% White, 39% Hispanic, 2% Black, 7% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Is Monte Vista Elementary public or private?
Monte Vista Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Cotati-Rohnert Park Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.