# Ceres Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061185001311`
- **School name**: Ceres Elementary
- **Location**: Whittier, CA 90604
- **Address**: 10601 South Ceres Ave.
- **District**: East Whittier City Elementary (LEAID `0611850`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 33.93570, -118.02830
- **Phone**: (562)464-2200
- **Website**: https://www.ewcsd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 492
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 22
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 67.1%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Orange
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: Red
  - math: Orange
  - ela: Orange
  - chronic_absent: Yellow

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 51.0% proficient — 200 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 13.1% (64 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 7.8% (32 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.6% (3 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 90.2%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 0.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 4.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 1.0%
- **Two or more races**: 3.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 68.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.4% — 50 students
- **English Learners**: 11.9% — 57 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 18 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 16 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,895
- **Federal share**: $1,615
- **State + local share**: $17,280
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 480
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,099,006
- **Federal share**: 11.9%
- **State share**: 65.5%
- **Local share**: 22.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,098,755

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $101,750
- **Poverty rate**: 11.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 22.6%
- **Unemployment**: 3.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,434
- **Foreign-born residents**: 13.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 4.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.8 miles (WASTE DISPOSAL INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 160
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.87 miles (GREENWAY TRAIL EAST EXTENSION)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: WHITTIER-CITY, WATER DEPT.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6107 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **California High** — 0.6 mi away, 0.8% (this school: 13.1%)
- **Mulberry Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 10.6% (this school: 13.1%)
- **Loma Vista Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 12.1% (this school: 13.1%)
- **Laurel Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 11.2% (this school: 13.1%)
- **Sierra Vista High (Alternative)** — 1.5 mi away, 8.88% (this school: 13.1%)

### ela proficiency
- **Howard J. McKibben Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 47.8% (this school: 44.5%)
- **California High** — 0.6 mi away, 63.4% (this school: 44.5%)
- **La Colima Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 57.9% (this school: 44.5%)
- **Mulberry Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 50.1% (this school: 44.5%)
- **Hillview Middle** — 1.2 mi away, 51.6% (this school: 44.5%)

### math proficiency
- **La Colima Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Orchard Dale Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **East Whittier Middle** — 1.5 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Granada Middle** — 1.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Scott Avenue Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ceres-elementary-whittier
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ceres-elementary-whittier/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ceres-elementary-whittier/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ceres-elementary-whittier/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ceres-elementary-whittier/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ceres-elementary-whittier/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ceres-elementary-whittier/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ceres-elementary-whittier/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ceres-elementary-whittier/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ceres-elementary-whittier/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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