Nixon (Patricia) Elementary

Nixon (Patricia) Elementary operates as a mid-tier elementary campus in Cerritos, California, overseen by ABC Unified. Current enrollment sits at 681 students spanning grades K through 6. That puts it 46% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

ABC Unified runs 30 schools in total, collectively educating 17,570 students. Nixon (Patricia) Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Nixon (Patricia) Elementary reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 38%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 32% Asian, 12% multiracial, 9% White, 8% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably less Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 26.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 53% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

After controlling for student poverty, Nixon (Patricia) Elementary ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 48.2%; Nixon (Patricia) Elementary posts 66.2%, +18.0 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, Los Angeles County reports that median household income runs about $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Nixon (Patricia) Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Carver (Charles J.) Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Nixon (Patricia) Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Nixon (Patricia) Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 48.7%.

Nixon (Patricia) Elementary operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Nixon (Patricia) Elementary has declined 13%, going from 787 students in 2018 to 681 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share fell from 39% to 32%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 29.1:1 in 2018 to 26.2:1 today.

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