Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 5
Ceres Elementary, Whittier, CA
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 492
- Teachers (FTE)
- 22.0
- Students per teacher
- 22.4
- Grades
- K to 5
This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 22.8. The California average across schools is 21.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 10601 South Ceres Ave., Whittier, CA 90604
- Phone
- (562)464-2200
- County
- Los Angeles County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- NCES school ID
- 061185001311
School meals
- Free lunch
- 245
- Reduced-price lunch
- 85
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 33067.1% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 172Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- Yes (CEP school)
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other elementary schools in East Whittier City Elementary School District
- Ocean View Elementary 668 students
- Leffingwell Elementary 551 students
- Scott Avenue Elementary 494 students
- Orchard Dale Elementary 472 students
- Murphy Ranch Elementary 466 students
- Laurel Elementary 465 students
- Mulberry Elementary 447 students
- Evergreen Elementary 392 students
- La Colima Elementary 378 students
Elementary schools elsewhere in Whittier
- Wallen L. Andrews Whittier City School District
- Jordan Elementary Lowell Joint School District
- Daniel Phelan Language Academy Whittier City School District
- Longfellow Elementary Whittier City School District
- Meadow Green Elementary Lowell Joint School District
- Los Altos Elementary South Whittier Elementary School District
- Christian Sorensen Science Academy Whittier City School District
- Howard J. McKibben Elementary South Whittier Elementary School District
- Loma Vista Elementary South Whittier Elementary School District
- Lou Henry Hoover School of Fine Arts Whittier City School District
- Ada S. Nelson Elementary Los Nietos School District
- West Whittier Elementary Whittier City School District
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.