NCES CCD 2024-25 21 schools CA

Best-Resourced Schools in Ceres, CA

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21 public K-12 schools in Ceres from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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21
Schools
12,239
Students
25.6/100
Avg Resource Index
22.1:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Ceres has more public-school enrollment than 85% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Ceres's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

11 of Ceres's 21 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 3 middle and 4 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

High measured need meets a thin staffing ratio

Ceres's reporting schools show 73.7% free-lunch eligibility across measured enrollment, alongside an average 22.1:1 student-teacher ratio. These are separate constraints: one describes the economic context of enrolled students and the other compares student and teacher headcounts. The 44-point gap between Endeavor Alternative and Caswell Elementary is therefore more useful than the city mean alone. A school with a similar ratio may still report different counselor access, attendance, or gifted-program availability, so open the campus records before drawing conclusions about student support.

City enrollment
Top 15%
School count
Top 14%
Resource Index average
5th percentile
Teacher staffing
8th percentile

Central Valley High accounts for 18.9% of all Ceres public-school enrollment

That concentration means Ceres-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data NCES Common Core of Data

Ceres school enrollment varies 63× across entities

Ceres school enrollment ranges from 37 students (lowest) to 2,317 students (highest), a spread of 2,280 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data NCES Common Core of Data

Ceres reports 73.7% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data NCES Common Core of Data

Ceres student-teacher ratio is 22.1:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Endeavor Alternative 54
2. Whitmore Charter High 51
3. Argus High (Continuation) 45
4. Blaker-Kinser Junior High 33
5. John B Allard 32
6. Whitmore Charter School of Art & Technology 30
7. Ceres Special Education 28
8. Mae Hensley Junior High 27
9. Cesar Chavez Junior High 24
10. Carroll Fowler Elementary 24
11. Samuel Vaughn Elementary 23
12. Don Pedro Elementary 23
13. Joel J. Hidahl Elementary 22
14. Ceres High 19
15. Lucas Elementary 18
16. Walter White Elementary 18
17. Sinclear Elementary 17
18. La Rosa Elementary 15
19. Central Valley High 14
20. Caswell Elementary 10
21. Patricia Kay Beaver Elementary 10

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Ceres

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Whitmore Charter High 62.2/100
  2. 2 Whitmore Charter School of Art & Technology 61.7/100
  3. 3 La Rosa Elementary 50.3/100
  4. 4 Samuel Vaughn Elementary 43.6/100
  5. 5 Patricia Kay Beaver Elementary 41.4/100

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Which Ceres school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Endeavor Alternative has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Ceres schools in this federal-data comparison at 54/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Ceres, CA? ▼

Ceres has 21 public schools with a total enrollment of 12,239 students. 2 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 22.1:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.