Rosita Elementary, Santa Ana CA - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Rosita Elementary

Rosita Elementary is a small school serving kindergarten through sixth grade in Santa Ana, a densely urban neighborhood that doubles as Orange County's administrative core. The school sits in the central city, near government buildings and major industry, and draws a student body that is predominantly Latino and Asian, with nearly the entire enrollment qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch.

The school's academic performance shows weak proficiency across both tested subjects. In English language arts, school-wide proficiency is less than halfway, with marked variation by grade: third grade is particularly low, fourth grade moves above a third of students, fifth and sixth grades show some gain, with sixth grade reaching about half. In math, proficiency is even lower overall, dropping particularly steeply in fifth grade before a slight recovery in sixth grade. Science proficiency in fifth grade matches the math floor. The school is assessed against other districts in Orange County, and its overall proficiency index places it in the bottom quartile of the county's tested schools.

Student composition is homogeneous: about two-thirds of the enrollment is Hispanic, close to a third is Asian, and the remainder is scattered among other groups. Economically, nearly nine in ten students come from families qualifying for the federal lunch program. No data on special education enrollment or English learner status was available. The school is a regular public school within the Garden Grove Unified district, which encompasses Garden Grove and surrounding areas; no recent major district-wide changes were found in available sources.

Santa Ana itself is undergoing rapid development and demographic change. Downtown holds the county's civic center and has walkable street life along Fourth Street, but the broader city is car-dependent. Industrial zones anchor much of the local economy alongside government. Housing costs have risen substantially, with median home values well above the state average and monthly rents exceeding typical mortgage payments; housing affordability by rent-to-income measures is tight. The city is adding residential units aggressively through mixed-use projects, including a major urban village in planning or construction.

For families choosing Rosita, the immediate academic profile points to a school where a majority of students are not yet meeting grade-level standards in core subjects, and proficiency declines in the upper elementary grades. The school serves a high-poverty, predominantly Latino and Asian neighborhood in an urban setting with strong community identity but also concentrated economic challenges. The setting is authentic urban Santa Ana rather than a separate or suburban campus. Parents may want to explore further with the school what support structures and instructional approaches are in place for students working below proficiency, and what pathways exist to secondary schools in the district.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 345%

School 45% · District 58% · ▼ 13 pts below district

▲ 2 pts above state median · ▼ 11 pts below county median

Grade 457%

School 57% · District 54% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▲ 19 pts above state median · ▲ 3 pts above county median

Grade 526%

School 26% · District 46% · ▼ 20 pts below district

▼ 4 pts below state median · ▼ 20 pts below county median

Grade 637%

School 37% · District 56% · ▼ 18 pts below district

▲ 7 pts above state median · ▼ 9 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 325%

School 25% · District 52% · ▼ 27 pts below district

▼ 16 pts below state median · ▼ 25 pts below county median

Grade 447%

School 47% · District 55% · ▼ 9 pts below district

▲ 5 pts above state median · ▼ 8 pts below county median

Grade 548%

School 48% · District 59% · ▼ 11 pts below district

▲ 3 pts above state median · ▼ 10 pts below county median

Grade 653%

School 53% · District 63% · ▼ 10 pts below district

▲ 9 pts above state median · ▼ 7 pts below county median

Science

Grade 526%

School 26% · District 39% · ▼ 13 pts below district

▼ 2 pts below state median · ▼ 15 pts below county median

This schoolGarden Grove Unified, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.