# Cerritos High

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060162000010`
- **School name**: Cerritos High
- **Location**: Cerritos, CA 90703
- **Address**: 12500 East 183rd St.
- **District**: ABC Unified (LEAID `0601620`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 33.86500, -118.06510
- **Phone**: (562)229-7715
- **Website**: https://www.cerritoshs.us
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5064832 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerritos_High_School
- **Founded**: 1971

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,996
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 83
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 43.1%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Blue
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: Blue
  - math: Yellow
  - college_career: Green
  - ela: Green
  - graduation: Blue

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 69.5% proficient — 521 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 97.8% (cohort of 557)
- **2021**: 97.0% (cohort of 563)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.8% (41 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [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**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 27.7%
- **Black/African American**: 55.7%
- **Asian**: 5.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 6.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.5%
- **Two or more races**: 4.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 45.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 8.0% — 167 students
- **English Learners**: 5.3% — 111 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 63 students
- **Autism**: 41 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 22 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 14 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 11 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,498
- **Federal share**: $1,988
- **State + local share**: $16,510
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 2,083
### 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**: $163,235
- **Poverty rate**: 3.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 65.9%
- **Unemployment**: 5.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $3,059
- **Foreign-born residents**: 53.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 9.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.8 miles (MCCOLL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 116
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.60 miles (CAF CAMELLIA)

### 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**: 7.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **Carver (Charles J.) Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 69.8% (this school: 67.75%)
- **Wittmann (Helen) Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 76.35% (this school: 67.75%)
- **Nixon (Patricia) Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 70.15% (this school: 67.75%)
- **Whitney (Gretchen) High** — 1.1 mi away, 85.4% (this school: 67.75%)
- **Cerritos Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 73.5% (this school: 67.75%)

### graduation rate
- **Whitney (Gretchen) High** — 1.1 mi away, 99.4% (this school: 97.8%)
- **Oxford Academy** — 3.1 mi away, 99% (this school: 97.8%)
- **Odyssey STEM Academy** — 4.8 mi away, 100% (this school: 97.8%)
- **Sunny Hills High** — 6.5 mi away, 99.2% (this school: 97.8%)
- **La Serna High** — 7.3 mi away, 98.8% (this school: 97.8%)

### math proficiency
- **Carver (Charles J.) Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Wittmann (Helen) Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Nixon (Patricia) Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Whitney (Gretchen) High** — 1.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Stowers(Cecil B.) Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)

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