Muscatel Middle

As a tight-knit middle school in Rosemead, California, Muscatel Middle enrolls 511 students from grades 7 through 8, one of the schools within Rosemead Elementary. Enrollment runs roughly 22% leaner than the state mean of about 659.

Within Rosemead Elementary, which oversees 5 schools and 2,319 students, Muscatel Middle is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Muscatel Middle logs that 58% of the student body identifies as Asian; the rest consists of 37% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Muscatel Middle has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 77% of students at Muscatel Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Muscatel Middle ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 33.8%; Muscatel Middle posts 61.2%, +27.4 points above that line.

Across the wider county, 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. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Muscatel Middle is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Rosemead High, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Muscatel Middle ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 53.7%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 18%: 621 students in 2018 compared to 511 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share climbed from 53% to 58%.

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