Birney Elementary

Birney Elementary, a moderately sized elementary school in Long Beach, California, one of the schools within Long Beach Unified, serves 501 students, covering grades K through 5.

Within Long Beach Unified, which oversees 82 schools and 62,255 students, Birney Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Birney Elementary shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 59% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 15% Asian, 13% Black, 6% multiracial, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school employs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.8:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 70% of students at Birney Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Birney Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 37.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 40.9%.

In the broader community, Los Angeles County reports that median household income runs about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Birney Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

The closest other public school is Robinson Academy, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Birney Elementary comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 38.8%.

Birney Elementary operates from an inner-city location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 20%: 627 students in 2018 compared to 501 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 51% to 59% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 23.4:1 in 2018 to 21.8:1 in 2025.

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