Harte Elementary

Harte Elementary is a high-enrollment elementary school in Long Beach, California, part of Long Beach Unified. The school caters to 749 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 61% larger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

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

Looking at the student body, Harte Elementary logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 65%. Beyond that, the school reports 14% Black, 13% Asian, 4% multiracial, 3% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 27.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Harte Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 77% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Harte Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.4%, the actual is 37.1%, a residual of +3.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, Los Angeles County reports that median household earnings sit near $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Harte Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Lindbergh STEM Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Harte Elementary at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 30.0%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Harte Elementary's enrollment has declined 17% since 2018, when it stood at 902 (now 749).

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.