Bixby Elementary

Bixby Elementary is an elementary school of reasonably sized scale in Long Beach, California, overseen by Long Beach Unified, serveing 548 students in grades K through 5.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Bixby Elementary shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 60%; the rest reads as 17% White, 10% Black, 9% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 27.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 32% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Bixby Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 60.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 59.9%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household income runs about $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Bixby Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Stanford Middle, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bixby Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 53.6%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Five-year trend. Bixby Elementary's enrollment has grew 20% since 2018, when it stood at 456 (now 548). The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 39% to 60% over that span.

On the community side, members of the Bixby Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.