Carmenita Middle

Located at 13435 East 166th St., in Cerritos, California, Carmenita Middle is an average-sized intermediate school that enrolls 639 students (grades 7 through 8), one of the schools within ABC Unified.

Carmenita Middle is one of 30 schools operated by ABC Unified, a district that educates 17,570 students overall.

Demographically, Carmenita Middle logs that Asian students make up the majority at 56%. The remainder comes out to 28% Hispanic, 6% White, 5% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 15% Asian, so the school skews noticeably more Asian than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 25.0:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 40% of students at Carmenita Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Carmenita Middle sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 55.5%; actual is 73.0%, +17.5 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household earnings sit near $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Carmenita Middle is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Gonsalves (Joe A.) Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Carmenita Middle comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 76.5%.

Carmenita Middle operates from an outer-ring location.

Looking at the recent track record. Carmenita Middle's enrollment has declined 9% since 2018, when it stood at 706 (now 639). Hispanic enrollment moved from 24% to 28% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 27.1:1 in 2018 to 25.0:1 in 2025.

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