Juarez (Benito) Elementary

Juarez (Benito) Elementary is a low-enrollment elementary school in Cerritos, California, run under ABC Unified. The school teaches 295 students in grades K through 6. That puts it 37% smaller than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

ABC Unified comprises 30 schools with combined enrollment of 17,570 students; Juarez (Benito) Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Juarez (Benito) Elementary lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 61% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 19% Asian, 8% Black, 7% White, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 73% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Juarez (Benito) Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 36.3%; this one delivers 31.7%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household income runs about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Juarez (Benito) Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Ross (Faye) Middle, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Juarez (Benito) Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Juarez (Benito) Elementary at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 44.5%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 16%: 350 students in 2018 compared to 295 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 13% to 8% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 21.9:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 today.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.