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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Wild Rose School of Creative this year?
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Enrollment
416
Elementary
DISTRICT 461 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MONROVIA UNIFIED·NCES 062532003783
Wild Rose School of Creative
232 Jasmine Ave., Monrovia, CA 91016 · (626) 471-2500 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL416 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 22% of California public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
21.4:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.1:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
66%
276 students
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 65 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 72 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 60 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 77 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 81 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 61 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (65) is 7% larger than its 5th grade class (61).
Student demographics
46%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
34.1%
CA avg 49.1% . -2.9pp since 2014
Math
32.4%
CA avg 37.7% . +3.4pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 3 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 14.4% | 19.7% | 28.9% | 37.0% |
| Math | 13.8% | 18.6% | 30.0% | 37.6% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 34.1% | 32.4% |
| 2023-24 | 29.4% | 31.5% |
| 2022-23 | 32.3% | 35.4% |
| 2021-22 | 39.0% | 32.6% |
| 2020-21 | 24.4% | 23.1% |
| 2018-19 | 48.5% | 40.9% |
| 2017-18 | 40.8% | 31.8% |
| 2016-17 | 40.1% | 36.1% |
| 2015-16 | 45.0% | 32.0% |
| 2014-15 | 37.0% | 29.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
32.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.7%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Wild Rose School of Creative
Wild Rose School of Creative's state test result (32.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wild Rose School of Creative this school | 416 | 66.3% | 32.3% |
| Barrett Elementary Morgan Hill | 374 | 67.4% | 24.9% |
| Hurd Barrington Elementary Newman | 428 | 65.7% | 29.7% |
| Morse Elementary Placentia | 382 | 69.1% | 54.5% |
| Allen at Steinbeck San Jose | 406 | 69.0% | 23.7% |
| La Veta Elementary Orange | 408 | 68.6% | 51.3% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Wild Rose School of Creative ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.3% | #3,244 of 5,151 | #814 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.4% | #2,977 of 5,172 ▼ 51 | #774 of 1,129 ▼ 40 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.1% | #3,535 of 5,172 ▲ 309 | #868 of 1,129 ▲ 52 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -2.6pp | #1,057 of 5,116 | #167 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 416 | #3,486 of 5,915 | #735 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.4:1 | #1,789 of 5,352 | #519 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 45.7% | #3,089 of 5,354 | #516 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.3% | #3,155 of 5,625 | #883 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.3% | #3,160 of 3,837 | #828 of 947 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
416
+34 (+9%) vs 2020
-32% since 1990-91, when it was 613
Student : Teacher
21.4:1
was 20.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 416 | 19.4 | 21.4:1 | 66% (276) |
| 2023-24 | 437 | 21.4 | 20.4:1 | 65% (286) |
| 2022-23 | 435 | 20.9 | 20.8:1 | 56% (244) |
| 2020-21 | 382 | 19 | 20.1:1 | 69% (264) |
| 2017-18 | 444 | 20 | 22.2:1 | 79% (351) |
| 2015-16 | 523 | 22 | 23.8:1 | 75% (394) |
| 2010-11 | 534 | N/A | N/A | 71% (380) |
| 2000-01 | 566 | 30 | 18.9:1 | 76% (432) |
| 1990-91 | 613 | 24 | 25.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wild Rose School of Creative.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (444 to 416); teachers down 3% (20 to 19.4).
About Wild Rose School of Creative
Wild Rose School of Creative is an elementary school in Monrovia, California, according to federal school records. It serves 416 students in kindergarten through 5.
Monrovia Unified operates 10 schools. Combined enrollment is 4,920 students.
At Wild Rose School of Creative, Hispanic students make up 72% of the student body. The school is also 14% White, 6% Asian, 5% multiracial, and 3% Black. That is higher than the 48% Hispanic share among all Los Angeles County residents. Wild Rose School of Creative's diversity index is 46%, against a US figure of 70%.
Wild Rose School of Creative employs 19.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 21.4:1. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California. Wild Rose School of Creative's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 66%.
Measured against California public elementary schools, Wild Rose School of Creative receives a C-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
On BeatsExpectations, Wild Rose School of Creative is 8.4 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of California schools.
Within Los Angeles County, the median household income is $90,112, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 36% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. In all, Los Angeles County has 2,244 public schools and roughly 1,265,907 students.
The closest public school, Clifton Middle, is about 0.3 miles from Wild Rose School of Creative. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. On average proficiency, Wild Rose School of Creative is 6th of 7 nearby schools with test data.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Wild Rose School of Creative's enrollment grew from 382 in 2020-21 to 416 in 2024-25. Federal data show the ratio rising from 20.1:1 to 21.4:1.
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Los Angeles County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
9,808,667
Census ACS
Median income
$90,112
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
2,244
1,265,907 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Monrovia Unified
- Monrovia HighHigh · 1,455 students
- Clifton MiddleMiddle · 634 students
- Plymouth ElementaryElementary · 547 students
- Mayflower ElementaryElementary · 524 students
- Monroe ElementaryElementary · 452 students
- Santa Fe Computer Science MagnetMiddle · 424 students
Other schools in Monrovia
- Monrovia HighHigh · 1,455 students
- Clifton MiddleMiddle · 634 students
- Plymouth ElementaryElementary · 547 students
- Mayflower ElementaryElementary · 524 students
- Monroe ElementaryElementary · 452 students
- Santa Fe Computer Science MagnetMiddle · 424 students
Nearby schools
- Clifton Middle0.3 mi · 634
- Bradoaks Elementary Science Academy0.6 mi · 368
- Mountain Park0.7 mi · 51
- Canyon Oaks High0.7 mi · 49
- Monroe Elementary0.9 mi · 452
- Mayflower Elementary1.0 mi · 524
Frequently asked questions
About Wild Rose School of CreativeWhat is the total enrollment at Wild Rose School of Creative?
Wild Rose School of Creative enrolls approximately 416 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Wild Rose School of Creative serve?
Wild Rose School of Creative serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Wild Rose School of Creative?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Wild Rose School of Creative is approximately 21.4:1 (19 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Wild Rose School of Creative?
At Wild Rose School of Creative, the student body is approximately 14% White, 72% Hispanic, 3% Black, 6% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Wild Rose School of Creative public or private?
Wild Rose School of Creative is a public K-12 school, overseen by Monrovia Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.