Schools · Cerritos
Cerritos, CA schools
Cerritos’s public schools score well above California’s averages: 90% of students are proficient in reading against 48.5% statewide, and 94% of high schoolers graduate on time against 87.6%.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
TownTapestry School GradeNew
A+
Cerritos’s School Grade: A+
The public schools Cerritos’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 96% of California’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the top.
A+Test scoresB+Graduation
California school districts we grade (1,139)Better than 96%
Lower resultsHigher results
California towns with similar household incomes (378)Better than 99%
High confidence. Built on 537 tested students and a graduating class of 1,597; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on California’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of California only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in California with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
Test scores · 2020–21
Well above the state in reading
Reading (ABC Unified)90%
State average 48.5%
Math (ABC Unified)77%
State average 33.4%
Graduation · class of 2020
94% graduate on time
Graduation rate
94%
CA: 87.6%
Graduating class
1,597
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #141 of 720 CA towns →
Districts
The district serving Cerritos
ABC Unified School DistrictGrades K–12 · 31 schools · 17,570 students
$19,156 per studentCA $21,206A+Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Every school
All 24 schools in Cerritos
Showing 1–24 of 24 schools
Leal (Frank C.) ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 774 students
A+PublicNixon (Patricia) ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 681 students
A+PublicCerritos ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 612 students
A+PublicBragg ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 602 students
APublicWittmann (Helen) ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 561 students
A+PublicStowers(Cecil B.) ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 547 students
A+PublicGonsalves (Joe A.) ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 516 students
A+PublicCarver (Charles J.) ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 444 students
A+PublicKennedy (John F.) ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 398 students
APublicJuarez (Benito) ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 295 students
A-PublicABC Virtual AcademyElementary · Grades K–8
PublicCarmenita MiddleMiddle · Grades 7–8 · 639 students
A+PublicTetzlaff (Martin B.) MiddleMiddle · Grades 7–8 · 542 students
A+PublicHaskell (Pliny Fisk) MiddleMiddle · Grades 7–8 · 403 students
A+PublicCerritos HighHigh · Grades 9–12 · 1,996 students
D-PublicGahr (Richard) HighHigh · Grades 9–12 · 1,631 students
PublicWhitney (Gretchen) HighHigh · Grades 7–12 · 1,024 students
PublicTracy (Wilbur) High (Continuation)High · Grades 9–12 · 164 students
PublicABC Secondary (Alternative)High · Grades 7–12 · 17 students
PublicCL ACADEMY
PrivateKINDERCARE LEARNING CENTER
PrivateVALLEY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL
PrivateVALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL, SYSTEM
PrivateVALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
PrivateSchool data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.