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Enrollment
547
Elementary
DISTRICT 471 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ABC UNIFIED·NCES 060162000026
Stowers(Cecil B.) Elementary
13350 Beach St., Cerritos, CA 90703 · (562) 229-7905 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL547 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 86% of California public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
26.1:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.4:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
41%
222 students
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 122 | 22% |
| Grade 1 | 58 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 61 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 76 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 59 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 69 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 102 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (122) is 20% larger than its 6th grade class (102).
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
72.3%
CA avg 49.1% . +9.3pp since 2014
Math
66.1%
CA avg 37.7% . +12.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 12 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 46.8% | 25.6% | 14.3% | 13.3% |
| Math | 44.2% | 21.9% | 20.6% | 13.4% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 72.3% | 66.1% |
| 2023-24 | 69.3% | 64.0% |
| 2022-23 | 66.9% | 64.1% |
| 2021-22 | 71.9% | 65.9% |
| 2020-21 | 87.5% | 79.2% |
| 2018-19 | 76.3% | 65.7% |
| 2017-18 | 70.9% | 63.6% |
| 2016-17 | 71.1% | 68.1% |
| 2015-16 | 72.0% | 66.0% |
| 2014-15 | 63.0% | 54.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
67.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.8%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Stowers(Cecil B.) Elementary
Stowers(Cecil B.) Elementary's state test result (67.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stowers(Cecil B.) Elementary this school | 547 | 40.6% | 67.1% |
| Wittmann (Helen) Elementary Cerritos | 561 | 37.3% | 82.9% |
| Ericson Elementary San Diego | 650 | 39.7% | 72.9% |
| Los Coyotes Elementary La Palma | 568 | 38.2% | 86.1% |
| Hugo Reid Elementary Arcadia | 583 | 34.5% | 64.5% |
| Butterfield Ranch Elementary Chino Hills | 607 | 49.4% | 75.5% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Stowers(Cecil B.) Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 67.1% | #779 of 5,151 | #175 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.1% | #771 of 5,172 ▲ 78 | #172 of 1,129 ▲ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.3% | #634 of 5,172 ▲ 129 | #144 of 1,129 ▲ 27 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.3pp | #3,234 of 5,116 | #788 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 547 | #1,896 of 5,915 | #377 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 26.1:1 | #4,869 of 5,352 | #1,098 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.8% | #1,408 of 5,354 | #216 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 40.6% | #4,311 of 5,625 | #1,060 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.8% | #1,925 of 3,837 | #597 of 947 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
547
-60 (-10%) vs 2020
-11% since 1990-91, when it was 612
Student : Teacher
26.1:1
was 27.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 547 | 21 | 26.1:1 | 41% (222) |
| 2023-24 | 536 | 17.9 | 29.9:1 | 40% (213) |
| 2022-23 | 508 | 20.9 | 24.3:1 | 39% (200) |
| 2020-21 | 607 | 22 | 27.6:1 | 42% (257) |
| 2017-18 | 650 | 23 | 28.3:1 | 33% (217) |
| 2015-16 | 644 | 24 | 26.8:1 | 28% (180) |
| 2010-11 | 555 | N/A | N/A | 28% (156) |
| 2000-01 | 645 | 28 | 23.0:1 | 16% (103) |
| 1990-91 | 612 | 25 | 24.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Stowers(Cecil B.) Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (650 to 547); teachers down 9% (23 to 21).
About Stowers(Cecil B.) Elementary
Stowers(Cecil B.) Elementary is classified as an elementary school. It is located in Cerritos, California. The school has 547 students in 2024-25 across kindergarten through 6.
Within ABC Unified, Stowers(Cecil B.) Elementary is one of 30 schools. The district enrolls 17,570 students.
At Stowers(Cecil B.) Elementary, 53% of students are Asian. Smaller groups are 26% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 5% White, and 5% Black. For comparison, the population of Los Angeles County is roughly 15% Asian. The diversity index for Stowers(Cecil B.) Elementary is 64%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Staffing at Stowers(Cecil B.) Elementary comes to 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 26.1:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in California is 22.3:1. Stowers(Cecil B.) Elementary counts 41% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Los Angeles County averages 70%, higher than here.
Among California public elementary schools, Stowers(Cecil B.) Elementary outscored 86%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
Stowers(Cecil B.) Elementary posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 67.1%, compared with a predicted 55.8%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of California schools on BeatsExpectations.
American Community Survey estimates for Los Angeles County show that the median household earns about $90,112 a year, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. Across Los Angeles County, 2,244 public schools serve about 1,265,907 students.
A public school about 0.4 miles away, Carmenita Middle, is the closest to Stowers(Cecil B.) Elementary. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Stowers(Cecil B.) Elementary. In a group of 9 nearby schools with scores, Stowers(Cecil B.) Elementary ranks 8th on average proficiency.
Under the NCES locale system, Stowers(Cecil B.) Elementary is Suburb: Large.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 10%, from 607 to 547. Students per teacher dropped from 27.6 in 2020-21 to 26.1 in 2024-25.
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Los Angeles County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
9,808,667
Census ACS
Median income
$90,112
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
2,244
1,265,907 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ABC Unified
- Cerritos HighHigh · 1,996 students
- Gahr (Richard) HighHigh · 1,631 students
- Artesia HighHigh · 1,384 students
- Whitney (Gretchen) HighHigh · 1,024 students
- Leal (Frank C.) ElementaryElementary · 774 students
- Nixon (Patricia) ElementaryElementary · 681 students
Other schools in Cerritos
- Cerritos HighHigh · 1,996 students
- Gahr (Richard) HighHigh · 1,631 students
- Whitney (Gretchen) HighHigh · 1,024 students
- Leal (Frank C.) ElementaryElementary · 774 students
- Nixon (Patricia) ElementaryElementary · 681 students
- Carmenita MiddleMiddle · 639 students
Nearby schools
- Carmenita Middle0.4 mi · 639
- Gonsalves (Joe A.) Elementary0.4 mi · 516
- Whitney (Gretchen) High0.4 mi · 1,024
- Wittmann (Helen) Elementary0.6 mi · 561
- Cerritos Elementary0.8 mi · 612
- Leal (Frank C.) Elementary1.1 mi · 774
Frequently asked questions
About Stowers(Cecil B.) ElementaryHow large is Stowers(Cecil B.) Elementary?
Stowers(Cecil B.) Elementary enrolls approximately 547 students in grades KG-06.
What age range does Stowers(Cecil B.) Elementary serve?
Stowers(Cecil B.) Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Stowers(Cecil B.) Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Stowers(Cecil B.) Elementary is approximately 26.1:1 (21 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Stowers(Cecil B.) Elementary?
Student demographics at Stowers(Cecil B.) Elementary are roughly 5% White, 26% Hispanic, 5% Black, 53% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Is Stowers(Cecil B.) Elementary public or private?
Stowers(Cecil B.) Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by ABC Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.