Cabrillo High

Cabrillo High, a large secondary school in Long Beach, California, part of Long Beach Unified, hosts 1,652 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 97% above the state mean of about 838.

Long Beach Unified comprises 82 schools with combined enrollment of 62,255 students; Cabrillo High is among them.

On demographics, Cabrillo High lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 76%. Other groups include 10% Black, 10% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the income-and-resources front, Cabrillo High records 83 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. An estimated 73% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Cabrillo High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 36.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 24.3%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household earnings sit near $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Cabrillo High is one.

Nearest neighbor: Garfield Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Cabrillo High at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 37.7%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. Cabrillo High's enrollment has fell 29% since 2018, when it stood at 2,331 (now 1,652). Hispanic enrollment moved from 72% to 76% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 22.7:1 in 2018 to 19.9:1 in 2025.

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