# Long Beach Unified

Long Beach Unified is a unified district in Los Angeles County, California. Reading proficiency is 51.7%, +3.6 points from 2023 to 2025. Math proficiency is 38.5%, +4.0 points from 2023 to 2025.

## Key Stats

| Metric | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Canonical URL | https://caschooltrends.com/districts/long-beach-unified |
| County | Los Angeles |
| District type | Unified |
| Schools | 86 |
| Students | 62,558 |
| Student / teacher ratio | 24:1 |
| Average spending per student | $22,380 |
| Low-Income Students | 38,006 (60.7%) |
| English Learners | 10,052 (16.0%) |

## Reading Proficiency History

| Year | Proficient % | Tested Students |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2023 | 48.1% | 32,789 |
| 2024 | 49.5% | 31,974 |
| 2025 | 51.7% | 31,379 |

## Math Proficiency History

| Year | Proficient % | Tested Students |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2023 | 34.5% | 32,791 |
| 2024 | 36.4% | 32,105 |
| 2025 | 38.5% | 31,425 |

## Reading Performance by Income Group

| Year | Low-Income | Non-Low-Income |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2023 | 39.5% | 64.1% |
| 2024 | 41.6% | 66.1% |
| 2025 | 41.9% | 68.7% |

## Math Performance by Income Group

| Year | Low-Income | Non-Low-Income |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2023 | 25.8% | 50.4% |
| 2024 | 28.9% | 52.0% |
| 2025 | 29.1% | 54.8% |

## Reading Performance by English Learner Status

| Year | English Learners | English Native |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2023 | 14.3% | 53.0% |
| 2024 | 14.0% | 54.1% |
| 2025 | 12.3% | 56.3% |

## Math Performance by English Learner Status

| Year | English Learners | English Native |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2023 | 10.4% | 39.3% |
| 2024 | 11.4% | 41.0% |
| 2025 | 11.1% | 43.0% |

## Board Members

| Name | Role | Email | First Year | Term Expires |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Diana Craighead | Board President | dcraighead@lbschools.net | 2022 | 2026 |
| Douglas Otto | Board Member | dotto@lbschools.net | N/A | N/A |
| Erik Miller | Board Vice President | emiller@lbschools.net | 2024 | 2028 |
| Juan Benitez, Ph.D. | Board Member | jbenitez1@lbschools.net | N/A | N/A |
| Maria Isabel López | Board Member | milopez@lbschools.net | 2022 | 2026 |

## Schools

| Rank | School | City | Reading | Math | Combined | Reading 2-Year | Math 2-Year |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | California Academy of Mathematics and Science | Carson | 98.7% | 94.9% | 96.8% | -0.6 | +0.5 |
| 2 | Eunice Sato Academy of Math & Science | Long Beach | 91.1% | 85.7% | 88.4% | -4.8 | +8.6 |
| 3 | Gant Elementary | Long Beach | 82.5% | 77.8% | 80.2% | +3.4 | +2.0 |
| 4 | Naples Elementary | Long Beach | 82.7% | 76.3% | 79.5% | -3.7 | -5.2 |
| 5 | Newcomb Academy | Long Beach | 81.3% | 73.5% | 77.4% | +0.2 | -0.1 |
| 6 | Cleveland Elementary | Lakewood | 79.7% | 72.5% | 76.1% | +2.3 | +4.8 |
| 7 | Prisk Elementary | Long Beach | 79.5% | 72.3% | 75.9% | +1.1 | +1.3 |
| 8 | Kettering Elementary | Long Beach | 72.6% | 72.6% | 72.6% | +2.4 | +9.2 |
| 9 | Lowell Elementary | Long Beach | 75.6% | 67.1% | 71.4% | +0.6 | -0.2 |
| 10 | Carver Elementary | Long Beach | 73.7% | 66.0% | 69.8% | +2.9 | -1.8 |
| 11 | Tincher Preparatory | Long Beach | 73.8% | 62.8% | 68.3% | +5.0 | +1.6 |
| 12 | Fremont Elementary | Long Beach | 72.6% | 63.8% | 68.2% | -7.7 | -3.7 |
| 13 | Los Cerritos Elementary | Long Beach | 68.7% | 65.7% | 67.2% | -4.0 | +5.9 |
| 14 | Emerson Parkside Academy | Long Beach | 70.5% | 60.7% | 65.6% | -0.4 | -3.2 |
| 15 | Ernest S. McBride, Sr. High | Long Beach | 82.9% | 45.1% | 64.0% | +13.8 | +9.8 |
| 16 | Cubberley K-8 | Long Beach | 70.6% | 57.2% | 63.9% | +3.1 | +2.6 |
| 17 | MacArthur Elementary | Lakewood | 66.7% | 60.4% | 63.5% | +6.9 | +10.1 |
| 18 | Henry | Long Beach | 66.3% | 59.7% | 63.0% | +0.1 | +2.8 |
| 19 | Burcham Elementary | Long Beach | 62.7% | 61.8% | 62.3% | -9.2 | -1.0 |
| 20 | Stanford Middle | Long Beach | 67.8% | 54.4% | 61.1% | +0.8 | +2.1 |
| 21 | Holmes Elementary | Lakewood | 68.3% | 53.9% | 61.1% | +10.7 | +8.0 |
| 22 | Rogers Middle | Long Beach | 70.7% | 51.3% | 61.0% | -0.5 | -2.8 |
| 23 | Longfellow Elementary | Long Beach | 67.3% | 53.8% | 60.6% | +6.6 | +3.6 |
| 24 | Helen Keller Middle | Long Beach | 68.8% | 51.2% | 60.0% | +5.7 | +4.9 |
| 25 | Bixby Elementary | Long Beach | 63.8% | 54.0% | 58.9% | -1.5 | +2.3 |
| 26 | Intellectual Virtues Academy of Long Beach | Long Beach | 66.1% | 46.4% | 56.3% | +2.4 | +0.5 |
| 27 | Madison Elementary | Lakewood | 61.1% | 50.6% | 55.9% | +3.9 | -2.3 |
| 28 | Alvarado Elementary | Signal Hill | 61.4% | 50.3% | 55.8% | +4.3 | +6.3 |
| 29 | Marshall Academy of the Arts | Long Beach | 61.7% | 48.8% | 55.2% | +3.9 | +4.7 |
| 30 | Riley Elementary | Lakewood | 52.3% | 54.5% | 53.4% | +6.3 | +20.0 |
| 31 | Renaissance High School for the Arts | Long Beach | 67.4% | 34.1% | 50.7% | +14.6 | +19.9 |
| 32 | Bancroft Middle | Long Beach | 57.9% | 40.7% | 49.3% | +3.0 | +2.7 |
| 33 | Hughes Middle | Long Beach | 55.4% | 42.4% | 48.9% | +6.3 | +5.6 |
| 34 | Lincoln Elementary | Long Beach | 49.1% | 48.6% | 48.8% | +9.0 | +15.3 |
| 35 | Signal Hill Elementary | Signal Hill | 51.3% | 45.9% | 48.6% | -0.8 | +4.7 |
| 36 | Gompers | Lakewood | 48.9% | 47.3% | 48.1% | -10.5 | -0.3 |
| 37 | Millikan High | Long Beach | 61.1% | 34.2% | 47.7% | -4.4 | -0.2 |
| 38 | Twain Elementary | Long Beach | 51.7% | 41.7% | 46.7% | -4.1 | -4.6 |
| 39 | Bryant Elementary | Long Beach | 48.0% | 40.1% | 44.1% | +4.6 | +2.2 |
| 40 | Stephens Middle | Long Beach | 53.3% | 34.8% | 44.0% | +16.3 | +12.2 |
| 41 | Garfield Elementary | Long Beach | 48.0% | 39.1% | 43.5% | +4.4 | +8.7 |
| 42 | Jefferson Leadership Academies | Long Beach | 56.0% | 30.2% | 43.1% | +5.5 | +3.2 |
| 43 | Birney Elementary | Long Beach | 44.3% | 39.8% | 42.0% | -3.5 | -0.6 |
| 44 | Muir K-8 | Long Beach | 46.6% | 35.9% | 41.3% | +5.4 | +2.1 |
| 45 | Mann Elementary | Long Beach | 44.1% | 38.2% | 41.1% | +8.7 | -0.1 |
| 46 | Polytechnic High | Long Beach | 57.0% | 24.8% | 40.9% | +5.2 | -5.9 |
| 47 | Burbank Elementary | Long Beach | 45.5% | 35.7% | 40.6% | +8.2 | +6.1 |
| 48 | Beach K-12 Independent Study | Long Beach | 47.3% | 32.3% | 39.8% | N/A | N/A |
| 49 | McKinley Elementary | Long Beach | 41.1% | 38.3% | 39.7% | +4.3 | +11.1 |
| 50 | Lafayette Elementary | Long Beach | 37.2% | 41.3% | 39.3% | +2.0 | +6.3 |
| 51 | Dooley Elementary | Long Beach | 43.4% | 34.4% | 38.9% | +2.0 | +2.7 |
| 52 | Wilson High | Long Beach | 54.6% | 20.6% | 37.6% | -0.8 | -4.4 |
| 53 | Stevenson Elementary | Long Beach | 41.1% | 33.8% | 37.5% | +9.1 | +6.8 |
| 54 | Harte Elementary | Long Beach | 37.9% | 34.8% | 36.4% | +2.0 | +9.1 |
| 55 | Webster Elementary | Long Beach | 34.8% | 37.0% | 35.9% | +5.5 | +11.1 |
| 56 | Jenny Oropeza Elementary | Long Beach | 39.6% | 31.9% | 35.7% | +7.2 | +9.0 |
| 57 | Hoover Middle | Lakewood | 42.6% | 28.0% | 35.3% | +8.3 | +13.0 |
| 58 | Olivia Nieto Herrera Elementary | Long Beach | 37.7% | 31.7% | 34.7% | -2.6 | +3.9 |
| 59 | Hudson | Long Beach | 36.6% | 31.7% | 34.2% | -0.3 | +4.6 |
| 60 | Lakewood High | Lakewood | 51.3% | 16.3% | 33.8% | +7.0 | +1.5 |
| 61 | Powell Academy for Success | Long Beach | 36.9% | 29.8% | 33.3% | +0.9 | +8.5 |
| 62 | Bobbie Smith Elementary | Long Beach | 31.2% | 34.4% | 32.8% | -3.7 | +9.1 |
| 63 | Chavez Elementary | Long Beach | 35.8% | 29.3% | 32.5% | +4.3 | +14.2 |
| 64 | Roosevelt Elementary | Long Beach | 34.0% | 28.5% | 31.3% | +4.0 | -1.3 |
| 65 | Willard Elementary | Long Beach | 33.5% | 27.5% | 30.5% | +1.2 | +0.4 |
| 66 | Barton Elementary | Long Beach | 30.7% | 29.9% | 30.3% | +7.5 | +13.3 |
| 67 | Addams Elementary | Long Beach | 33.2% | 27.2% | 30.2% | -2.3 | -2.7 |
| 68 | Richard D. Browning High | Long Beach | 43.7% | 16.7% | 30.2% | +21.2 | +15.0 |
| 69 | Grant Elementary | Long Beach | 35.0% | 25.2% | 30.1% | -2.0 | -1.7 |
| 70 | Jessie Nelson Academy | Signal Hill | 36.1% | 22.7% | 29.4% | -0.2 | +2.8 |
| 71 | Lindbergh STEM Academy | Long Beach | 35.3% | 23.2% | 29.2% | +4.9 | +7.3 |
| 72 | Lindsey Academy | Long Beach | 37.1% | 21.3% | 29.2% | +5.3 | +6.7 |
| 73 | King Elementary | Long Beach | 30.9% | 26.4% | 28.7% | -2.1 | -0.8 |
| 74 | Franklin Classical Middle | Long Beach | 34.5% | 22.5% | 28.5% | -1.2 | +1.7 |
| 75 | Robinson Academy | Long Beach | 32.8% | 24.1% | 28.4% | +1.4 | +3.0 |
| 76 | Whittier Elementary | Long Beach | 32.2% | 24.1% | 28.2% | +9.6 | +4.8 |
| 77 | Hill Classical Middle | Long Beach | 37.0% | 18.0% | 27.5% | +1.0 | -4.0 |
| 78 | Hamilton Middle | Long Beach | 39.2% | 13.9% | 26.5% | +9.5 | -1.8 |
| 79 | Washington Middle | Long Beach | 32.5% | 16.9% | 24.7% | +6.2 | +2.8 |
| 80 | Cabrillo High | Long Beach | 39.3% | 9.4% | 24.3% | +0.4 | +1.1 |
| 81 | Jordan High | Long Beach | 31.5% | 14.0% | 22.8% | +2.1 | +6.9 |
| 82 | Edison Elementary | Long Beach | 17.8% | 25.1% | 21.4% | -17.4 | +1.1 |
| 83 | New City | Long Beach | 23.0% | 13.0% | 18.0% | N/A | N/A |
| 84 | Educational Partnership High | Long Beach | 19.3% | 14.9% | 17.1% | -9.3 | +11.8 |
| 85 | Clear Passage Educational Center | Long Beach | 18.8% | 12.5% | 15.6% | N/A | N/A |
| 86 | Avalon K-12 | Santa Catalina | 19.0% | 11.6% | 15.3% | -7.1 | -7.7 |