Whitmore Charter School of Art & Technology

Whitmore Charter School of Art & Technology is one of the middle-of-the-pack elementary campuss in Ceres, California, one of the schools within Ceres Unified, with 435 students on its rolls from grades K through 8.

Ceres Unified runs 23 schools in total, collectively educating 13,665 students. Whitmore Charter School of Art & Technology is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Whitmore Charter School of Art & Technology records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 28% White, 16% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Whitmore Charter School of Art & Technology has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Whitmore Charter School of Art & Technology tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 49% of students at Whitmore Charter School of Art & Technology qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Stanislaus County (around 71%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Whitmore Charter School of Art & Technology performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.5%, the actual is 44.2%, a residual of -6.3 points.

Across the wider county, Stanislaus County reports that median household income runs about $81,468, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Stanislaus County runs 190 public schools (combined enrollment of about 106,477 students), of which Whitmore Charter School of Art & Technology is one.

The closest other public school is Whitmore Charter High, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Whitmore Charter School of Art & Technology. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Whitmore Charter School of Art & Technology ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 35.8%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site. As a public charter, Whitmore Charter School of Art & Technology runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Whitmore Charter School of Art & Technology has held roughly steady, going from 426 students in 2018 to 435 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 37% to 28%.

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