Summary
Cerritos Elementary is a K–6 school in Glendale Unified serving 490 students in Glendale, California. Its 2025–2026 proficiency rates were below both state and district results in English language arts (ELA), math, and science. The clearest concern is that Cerritos ranked second-lowest among nine nearby schools with results in all three subjects, ahead only of Fletcher Drive Elementary.
ELA is Cerritos’s strongest subject relative to its comparison groups, but the school still trails both benchmarks: it scored 38% in ELA, 26% in math, and 22% in science, compared with state results of 49%, 38%, and 36%, and Glendale Unified results of 61%, 55%, and 48%. The gaps to the district were 23 points in ELA, 28 in math, and 25 in science. Cerritos also fell below nearby-school averages by 21 points in ELA, 27 in math, and 25 in science. There is a grade-level bright spot: sixth-grade ELA was 53%, above the state’s 48%. Sixth-grade math was just 18%, below every nearby K–6 peer with a reported result, which ranged from 33% to 63%.
Results have declined since 2022–2023: ELA fell 13 points, math 11, and science 4, while state results rose in all three subjects. SchoolDigger’s overall rating also dropped from 3 stars and the 61st percentile to 2 stars and the 33rd percentile. Its statewide ranking for how well Cerritos serves White students was especially low, at the 6th percentile in 2025–2026, compared with the schoolwide 33rd; for special education students, it was higher, at the 56th percentile. As context, 63% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025, close to the nearby-school median of 60%. The 2024–2025 student-teacher ratio was 24.5, compared with a nearby-school average of 21.7.
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