Rose Avenue Elementary

Rose Avenue Elementary operates as a medium-sized elementary school in Modesto, California, part of Modesto City Elementary. Current enrollment sits at 561 students spanning grades K through 6. That puts it 21% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Modesto City Elementary comprises 26 schools with combined enrollment of 14,444 students; Rose Avenue Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Rose Avenue Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 63% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 23% White, 9% multiracial, 3% Asian, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 50% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Rose Avenue Elementary has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 75% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Rose Avenue Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.9%, the actual is 27.5%, a residual of -7.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, Stanislaus County reports that the typical household earns roughly $81,468 per year, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Stanislaus County's 190 public schools (combined enrollment of about 106,477 students), Rose Avenue Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Thomas Downey High, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Rose Avenue Elementary comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 31.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 16%: 482 students in 2018 compared to 561 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 45% to 63% over that span.

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