# Cerritos Elementary

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/cerritos-elementary-cerritos/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/cerritos-elementary-cerritos

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060162000009`
- **School name**: Cerritos Elementary
- **Location**: Cerritos, CA 90703
- **Address**: 13600 East 183rd St.
- **District**: ABC Unified (LEAID `0601620`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 33.86560, -118.04110
- **Phone**: (562)229-7845
- **Website**: https://www.cerritoses.us

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 612
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 21
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 29.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 35.6%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 73.5% proficient — 355 tested

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 2.2% (13 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.3% (8 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.3% (2 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 15.0%
- **Black/African American**: 68.9%
- **Asian**: 6.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 3.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.5%
- **Two or more races**: 5.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 33.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 7.8% — 46 students
- **English Learners**: 11.9% — 70 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 16 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 4 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,584
- **Federal share**: $2,006
- **State + local share**: $15,578
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 588
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,956,800
- **Federal share**: 9.7%
- **State share**: 68.2%
- **Local share**: 22.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,513,526

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $119,211
- **Poverty rate**: 5.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 55.9%
- **Unemployment**: 5.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $3,380
- **Foreign-born residents**: 42.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 3.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.5 miles (MCCOLL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 5
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 123
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.38 miles (LOS ALAMITOS UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CERRITOS - CITY, WATER DEPT.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-12-17

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.5122 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Cerritos High** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.2%)
- **John F. Kennedy High** — 1.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.2%)
- **Tracy (Wilbur) High (Continuation)** — 1.9 mi away, 0.93% (this school: 2.2%)
- **ABC Secondary (Alternative)** — 1.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.2%)
- **Artesia High** — 2.3 mi away, 0.35% (this school: 2.2%)

### ela proficiency
- **Gonsalves (Joe A.) Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 75.1% (this school: 73.5%)
- **Carmenita Middle** — 1.1 mi away, 74.2% (this school: 73.5%)
- **Whitney (Gretchen) High** — 1.1 mi away, 85.4% (this school: 73.5%)
- **Wittmann (Helen) Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 76.35% (this school: 73.5%)
- **Oxford Academy** — 2.9 mi away, 83.25% (this school: 73.5%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/cerritos-elementary-cerritos
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/cerritos-elementary-cerritos/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/cerritos-elementary-cerritos/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/cerritos-elementary-cerritos/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/cerritos-elementary-cerritos/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/cerritos-elementary-cerritos/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/cerritos-elementary-cerritos/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/cerritos-elementary-cerritos/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/cerritos-elementary-cerritos/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/cerritos-elementary-cerritos/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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