The top reported proficiency rate is 81% in Social studies. The lowest is 68% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on El Rodeo Elementary
El Rodeo Elementary sits on North Whittier Drive in Beverly Hills, a small, affluent incorporated city within Los Angeles County. The school serves kindergarten through fifth grade and is part of Beverly Hills Unified, a compact district with only a handful of campuses. Anyone looking at this school is really looking at one of two elementary options in the district, the other being Horace Mann.
The campus itself has a recent history worth knowing. After a multi-year closure for extensive modernization, El Rodeo reopened in August 2024 as a TK-5 school. Publicly reported accounts indicate that when it reopened, it also absorbed the students and teachers from Hawthorne Elementary, which closed permanently at the end of the prior school year. A family new to the district is arriving at a campus that is freshly built and larger in its student body than before, a practical fact that shapes the physical and social environment.
On academics, state CAASPP results for the most recent school year show strong proficiency across the tested grades. In both English language arts and math, the school's results across third, fourth, and fifth grade consistently land in a range that is well above the California midpoint, and on the whole proficiency measure the school places in the top quartile relative to districts in Los Angeles County. Science results from the fifth-grade state assessment are somewhat lower than the ELA and math figures, though still above most California schools. The social studies data in the file is from more than a decade ago and reflects a prior assessment system, so it does not speak to current performance. Multi-year trend data was not available, so it is not possible to characterize improvement or decline over time.
Enrollment and demographic figures in the data were reported as zeroes across all categories, which likely reflects a data-filing gap rather than the school's actual population. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, English learner counts, and IEP rates were all listed as missing. A parent wanting to understand the composition of the student body or the scope of special education and language support should ask the school directly.
At the district level, two policy changes are worth knowing. In July 2025 the board unanimously adopted a "Standards-Based Instructional Environment" policy that, publicly reported accounts describe, restricts how teachers may raise political, religious, or socially sensitive topics, requiring such discussion to be tied to the approved curriculum and presented without partisan bias. Separately, in October 2025 the board took up a policy stemming from a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that would give parents the option to opt their children out of instruction that conflicts with their religious beliefs. Neither policy is specific to El Rodeo, but both shape what instruction looks like district-wide, and families have different views on where these lines should be drawn.
The surrounding community is among the most expensive housing markets in the country. The typical home value in this ZIP code is far above both the California and national medians, and the estimated monthly carrying cost of a purchase is many times the national median household income. Rents are similarly extreme, with rent-to-income ratios that sit well outside any conventional affordability threshold. The city is also in a period of active construction, with a large mixed-use luxury development underway and a wave of builder's remedy residential projects approved in 2025 that will add housing stock over the coming years. The first station of the Metro D Line extension opened at the city's edge in spring 2026, with a second station in the Wilshire corridor planned for around 2027, which will gradually change how some residents access the broader Los Angeles region.
Beverly Hills is car-oriented outside its commercial core, though the area near the school has walkable residential streets. The civic infrastructure includes multiple municipal parks, a public library system, and proximity to the range of amenities the city is known for.
Graduation rate and chronic absenteeism data were not available for this school, which is expected given that El Rodeo does not serve middle or high school grades. Those outcomes belong to Beverly Hills High School, the district's sole high school, and a family considering the long-term academic pathway would want to look at that campus separately.
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