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Enrollment
561
Elementary
DISTRICT 471 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ABC UNIFIED·NCES 060162000031
Wittmann (Helen) Elementary
16801 Yvette Ave., Cerritos, CA 90703 · (562) 229-7915 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL561 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
28.1:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.4:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
37%
209 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 | 96 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 75 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 76 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 75 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 81 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 81 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 77 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (96) is 25% larger than its 6th grade class (77).
Student demographics
58%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
85.7%
CA avg 49.1% . +8.7pp since 2014
Math
79.8%
CA avg 37.7% . +6.8pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 86 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 80 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 7 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 59.7% | 26.0% | 8.9% | 5.4% |
| Math | 56.5% | 23.3% | 15.1% | 5.0% |
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 | 85.7% | 79.8% |
| 2023-24 | 86.5% | 79.3% |
| 2022-23 | 85.5% | 73.5% |
| 2021-22 | 87.8% | 74.8% |
| 2020-21 | 100.0% | 85.7% |
| 2018-19 | 84.8% | 74.6% |
| 2017-18 | 82.6% | 72.4% |
| 2016-17 | 79.4% | 71.6% |
| 2015-16 | 82.0% | 75.0% |
| 2014-15 | 77.0% | 73.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
82.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.7%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+25.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 83% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 58% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 25 points, placing it in California's top 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 Wittmann (Helen) Elementary
Wittmann (Helen) Elementary's state test result (82.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wittmann (Helen) Elementary this school | 561 | 37.3% | 82.9% |
| Gonsalves (Joe A.) Elementary Cerritos | 516 | 35.5% | 80.3% |
| Los Coyotes Elementary La Palma | 568 | 38.2% | 86.1% |
| Hugo Reid Elementary Arcadia | 583 | 34.5% | 64.5% |
| Stowers(Cecil B.) Elementary Cerritos | 547 | 40.6% | 67.1% |
| Vinci Park Elementary San Jose | 529 | 31.2% | 63.3% |
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 Wittmann (Helen) Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 82.9% | #126 of 5,151 | #28 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 79.8% | #239 of 5,172 ▲ 16 | #54 of 1,129 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 85.7% | #87 of 5,172 ▼ 24 | #19 of 1,129 ▼ 4 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.5pp | #2,818 of 5,116 | #696 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 561 | #1,746 of 5,915 | #346 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 28.1:1 | #5,239 of 5,352 | #1,186 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.1% | #2,017 of 5,354 | #307 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 37.3% | #4,453 of 5,625 | #1,083 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.0% | #3,193 of 3,837 | #833 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
561
-14 (-2%) vs 2020
+11% since 1990-91, when it was 504
Student : Teacher
28.1:1
was 27.4:1
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 | 561 | 20 | 28.1:1 | 37% (209) |
| 2023-24 | 564 | 20 | 28.2:1 | 39% (220) |
| 2022-23 | 531 | 21 | 25.3:1 | 33% (176) |
| 2020-21 | 575 | 21 | 27.4:1 | 35% (199) |
| 2017-18 | 597 | 23 | 26.0:1 | 27% (162) |
| 2015-16 | 568 | 22 | 25.8:1 | 28% (158) |
| 2010-11 | 515 | N/A | N/A | 22% (111) |
| 2000-01 | 558 | 24 | 23.3:1 | 10% (55) |
| 1990-91 | 504 | 18 | 28.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wittmann (Helen) Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (597 to 561); teachers down 13% (23 to 20).
About Wittmann (Helen) Elementary
Wittmann (Helen) Elementary is an elementary school in Cerritos, California, and it is part of ABC Unified. A total of 561 students attend the school, which covers kindergarten through 6. Against the 465-student average for elementary schools in California, enrollment here is 21% higher.
Wittmann (Helen) Elementary is run by ABC Unified, whose 30 schools enroll 17,570 students.
Asian students make up a majority at Wittmann (Helen) Elementary, at 60%. Smaller groups are 23% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 5% White, and 4% Black. For comparison, the population of Los Angeles County is roughly 15% Asian. Wittmann (Helen) Elementary's diversity index is 58%, against a US figure of 70%.
Federal staffing data show 20 full-time-equivalent teachers at Wittmann (Helen) Elementary and a ratio of 28.1:1. This ratio sits 5.7 above the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 37% of students. The gap from the 70% average for public schools in Los Angeles County is 33 points.
Wittmann (Helen) Elementary scores 25.2 points above its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests: 82.9% actual versus 57.7% predicted. That puts it in the top 10% of California schools on BeatsExpectations.
Los Angeles County census figures show that the median household income is $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. There are 2,244 public schools in Los Angeles County, enrolling about 1,265,907 students in all.
The school nearest to Wittmann (Helen) Elementary is Whitney (Gretchen) High, at a distance of about 0.2 miles. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Ranked by average proficiency, Wittmann (Helen) Elementary places 2nd out of 7 schools in its immediate area.
NCES describes the area around Wittmann (Helen) Elementary as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment in 2024-25 was 561, close to the 575 recorded in 2020-21.
Discussion on this page can cover sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
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
- Whitney (Gretchen) High0.2 mi · 1,024
- Stowers(Cecil B.) Elementary0.6 mi · 547
- Carmenita Middle0.7 mi · 639
- ABC Secondary (Alternative)0.8 mi · 17
- Tracy (Wilbur) High (Continuation)0.8 mi · 164
- Kennedy (John F.) Elementary0.8 mi · 398
Frequently asked questions
About Wittmann (Helen) ElementaryHow many students attend Wittmann (Helen) Elementary?
Wittmann (Helen) Elementary enrolls approximately 561 students in grades KG-06.
What grades does Wittmann (Helen) Elementary serve?
Wittmann (Helen) Elementary serves grades KG-06.
How many teachers does Wittmann (Helen) Elementary have?
Wittmann (Helen) Elementary employs 20 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 28.1:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Wittmann (Helen) Elementary?
At Wittmann (Helen) Elementary, the student body is approximately 5% White, 23% Hispanic, 4% Black, 60% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Wittmann (Helen) Elementary?
Wittmann (Helen) Elementary is overseen by ABC Unified in Los Angeles County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.