Rose Elementary

Rose Elementary is one of the reasonably sized primary schools in Escondido, California, part of Escondido Union, with 498 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Escondido Union comprises 24 schools with combined enrollment of 13,920 students; Rose Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Rose Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (92%). Beyond that, the school lists 4% Asian, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 35% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above San Diego County's rate of about 54%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Rose Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.3%, the actual is 24.5%, a residual of -1.8 points.

In the surrounding community, San Diego County reports that the typical household earns roughly $106,268 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, San Diego County runs 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), of which Rose Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Pioneer Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rose Elementary. On composite proficiency, Rose Elementary comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 26.6%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Rose Elementary has declined 4%, going from 521 students in 2018 to 498 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 26.1:1 in 2018 to 18.1:1 today.

On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.