Enrollment Trends at Cerritos

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 20,571 where 21,859 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

The female to male ratio is 1.16 to 1 and it means that there are slightly more female students enrolled in Cerritos than male students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Cerritos College since 2015.

• Trends Table
• By Gender Chart
• Downloadable Chart

Year	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	22,043	10,020	12,023
2016-17	20,979 -1,064	9,545 -475	11,434 -589
2017-18	17,218 -3,761	7,672 -1,873	9,546 -1,888
2018-19	21,745 4,527	10,576 2,904	11,169 1,623
2019-20	22,287 542	10,677 101	11,610 441
2020-21	20,406 -1,881	9,188 -1,489	11,218 -392
2021-22	18,656 -1,750	8,592 -596	10,064 -1,154
2022-23	19,469 813	9,181 589	10,288 224
2023-24	21,046 1,577	9,630 449	11,416 1,128
2024-25	21,859 813	10,099 469	11,760 344
Average	20,571	9,518	11,053

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 11.51% and the percentage of black students is 6.33% at Cerritos College. 7.98% of enrolled students is Asian. Hispanic students comprise 68.15% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students increased from 4.42% to 11.51%. Asian enrollment declined from 8.25% to 7.98%. Black student enrollment increased from 3.04% to 6.33%. Hispanic student representation contracted from 70.54% to 68.15%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.5114 which indicates that somewhat diverse. This increased from 0.4902 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Cerritos College over the past 11 years (2015-2025).

• Trends Table
• Interactive Chart
• Downloadable Chart

Year	American Indian or Native American	Asian	Black	Hispanic	Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	White	Two or More Races
	2015-16	1,066	1,818	671	15,549	126	974	273
2016-17	1,248	1,738	399	15,067	117	583	213
2017-18	1,082	1,315	250	12,690	106	186	170
2018-19	1,343	1,669	322	15,758	129	643	224
2019-20	55	1,543	1,127	14,498	72	1,675	513
2020-21	55	1,619	1,309	14,295	75	1,652	459
2021-22	58	1,508	1,202	13,015	61	1,717	414
2022-23	50	1,567	1,293	13,465	67	1,907	460
2023-24	42	1,659	1,405	14,761	71	1,963	505
2024-25	37	1,745	1,384	14,898	61	2,516	468
Average	504	1,618	936	14,400	89	1,382	370