Dooley Elementary

Dooley Elementary is an average-sized elementary campus in Long Beach, California, operated by Long Beach Unified. The school hosts 662 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 42% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Long Beach Unified runs 82 schools in total, collectively educating 62,255 students. Dooley Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Dooley Elementary records that 76% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 13% Black, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial, 2% Pacific Islander. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Dooley Elementary has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 27.1:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Dooley Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 27.4%; this one delivers 38.1%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household earnings sit near $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Dooley Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Lindsey Academy, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Dooley Elementary comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 35.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Dooley Elementary has edged down 35%, going from 1,014 students in 2018 to 662 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 29.8:1 in 2018 to 27.1:1 today.

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