Rosedale-North Elementary

Rosedale-North Elementary is an elementary-level community of reasonably sized scale in Bakersfield, California, operated by Rosedale Union Elementary, educateing 537 students in grades K through 6.

Within Rosedale Union Elementary, which oversees 9 schools and 6,202 students, Rosedale-North Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Rosedale-North Elementary lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 49%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 41% White, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian, 2% Black.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 50% of students at Rosedale-North Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Kern County (around 76%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Rosedale-North Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.9%, the actual is 41.5%, a residual of -8.4 points.

Around the school, Kern County reports that median household income runs about $70,210, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Kern County runs 279 public schools (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students), of which Rosedale-North Elementary is one.

Patriot Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rosedale-North Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Rosedale-North Elementary ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 46.9%.

Rosedale-North Elementary operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Rosedale-North Elementary has increased 13%, going from 474 students in 2018 to 537 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 57% to 41%. Class-load math has fell: from 20.5:1 in 2018 to 18.2:1 in 2025.

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