Summary
Wild Rose School of Creative is a 416-student K–6 elementary school in Monrovia, California, serving families in Monrovia Unified. Its 2025–2026 results were below state, district and nearby K–6 comparisons in English language arts (ELA), math and science; the central finding is that this is a broad academic gap, not a weakness limited to one subject.
Science was the closest of the three subjects to comparison results, though it remained behind. The school scored 30% in ELA, 27% in math and 27% in science—below California by 20, 12 and 9 percentage points, and below Monrovia Unified by 26, 17 and 14 points, respectively. The other four nearby K–6 schools averaged 58% in ELA, 52% in math and 45% in science, ahead of Wild Rose by 28, 25 and 18 points. Fourth grade stands out as a particular weakness: ELA proficiency was 17% and math was 19%, compared with 41% and 43% at the lowest-scoring nearby peers. A separate Spanish-language assessment was a bright spot in 2022–2023: Wild Rose scored 20%, above district results of 13% and state results of 9%; this result is from one year only.
Results have fluctuated, but all three subjects finished below their 2022–2023 levels: ELA fell 3 points, math 9 and science 6, while the state improved in each. SchoolDigger’s statewide rating also fell from the 46th percentile in 2022–2023 to the 28th percentile and 1 star in 2025–2026; nearby schools ranged from the 44th to the 94th percentile. Attendance is a relative strength: chronic absenteeism was 13% in 2025–2026, below the district’s 15% and state’s 18%, and down 11 points from 2021–2022. In 2024–2025, the student-teacher ratio was 21.4, below the nearby-school average of 22.3, and 66% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible. SchoolDigger’s subgroup rankings show a stronger relative result for English Language Learner Students: the school ranked at the 78th percentile for serving this group in 2023–2024, versus the 35th percentile overall. Special Education Students ranked at the 11th percentile in 2025–2026, compared with 28th overall, after falling to the 0th percentile in 2024–2025 from the 49th percentile in 2023–2024.
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