Rosamond Elementary

Rosamond Elementary operates as an expansive elementary-level community in Rosamond, California, run under Southern Kern Unified. Current enrollment sits at 822 students spanning grades K through 5. That puts it 77% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Within Southern Kern Unified, which oversees 6 schools and 3,636 students, Rosamond Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Rosamond Elementary reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 68% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 12% White, 12% Black, 8% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 57%.

On the income-and-resources front, Rosamond Elementary reports 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Rosamond Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 88% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Kern County's rate of about 76%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Rosamond Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 26.9%; this one delivers 15.1%.

In the area at large, census data for Kern County shows median household income runs about $70,210, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, Kern County runs 279 public schools (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students), of which Rosamond Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Rare Earth High (Continuation), around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Rosamond Elementary. On composite proficiency, Rosamond Elementary comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 22.4%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 11%: 927 students in 2018 compared to 822 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 54% to 68% across the same window.

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