Cerritos Elementary

Cerritos Elementary is an elementary school of intimate scale in Anaheim, California, part of Savanna Elementary, teacheing 368 students in grades K through 6. That puts it 21% smaller than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Within Savanna Elementary, which oversees 4 schools and 1,719 students, Cerritos Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Cerritos Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 21% Asian, 18% White, 8% multiracial, 3% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

In terms of school funding signals, Cerritos Elementary shows 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 72% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Orange County's rate of about 55%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Cerritos Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.6%, the actual is 48.0%, a residual of +11.4 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Orange County) shows that median household income runs about $116,289, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Orange County runs 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), of which Cerritos Elementary is one.

Hansen Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Cerritos Elementary at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 48.9%.

Cerritos Elementary operates from an inner-city location.

Five-year trend. Cerritos Elementary's enrollment has contracted 26% since 2018, when it stood at 494 (now 368). White enrollment moved from 24% to 18% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 24.1:1 in 2018 to 21.6:1 in 2025.

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