Rockwood Elementary

Located at 1000 Rockwood Ave., in Calexico, California, Rockwood Elementary is a reasonably sized K-5 school that hosts 617 students (grades K through 6), one of the schools within Calexico Unified. That puts it 33% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Rockwood Elementary is one of 12 schools operated by Calexico Unified, a district that serves 8,022 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Rockwood Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (98%). By comparison, Imperial County as a whole is about 86% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Rockwood Elementary has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.7:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Imperial County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Rockwood Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.3%, the actual is 13.6%, a residual of -9.7 points.

In the broader community, census data for Imperial County shows median household income runs about $57,681, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. Across Imperial County's 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,513 students), Rockwood Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Dool Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Rockwood Elementary at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 18.9%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Rockwood Elementary has decreased 7%, going from 661 students in 2018 to 617 in 2025.

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