Captain Raymond Collins

Set in Long Beach, California, Captain Raymond Collins is a medium-sized elementary-level community, one of the schools within Paramount Unified. It serves 522 students across grades K through 5.

Within Paramount Unified, which oversees 19 schools and 11,623 students, Captain Raymond Collins is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Captain Raymond Collins records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 36% Black, 5% multiracial, 5% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 94% of students at Captain Raymond Collins qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Captain Raymond Collins sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 23.2%; this one delivers 21.9%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate 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. Captain Raymond Collins is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Buena Vista High, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Captain Raymond Collins. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Captain Raymond Collins at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 40.1%.

Captain Raymond Collins operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 7%: 564 students in 2018 compared to 522 in 2025.

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