Stowers(Cecil B.) Elementary

Stowers(Cecil B.) Elementary operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in Cerritos, California, one of the schools within ABC Unified. Current enrollment sits at 547 students spanning grades K through 6.

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

Looking at the student body, Stowers(Cecil B.) Elementary reports that the largest single group is Asian at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 26% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 5% White, 5% Black. That is considerably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Stowers(Cecil B.) Elementary has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 26.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Stowers(Cecil B.) Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 41% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Stowers(Cecil B.) Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.3%, the actual is 65.5%, a residual of +10.2 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Stowers(Cecil B.) Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Carmenita Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Stowers(Cecil B.) Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Stowers(Cecil B.) Elementary at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 77.8%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 16%: 650 students in 2018 compared to 547 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share declined from 32% to 26%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 28.3:1 in 2018 to 26.1:1 today.

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