Helen Keller Middle

Helen Keller Middle operates as a modestly sized middle-grades school in Long Beach, California, operated by Long Beach Unified. Current enrollment sits at 515 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Helen Keller Middle sits 22% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 82 schools in Long Beach Unified (62,255 students total), Helen Keller Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Helen Keller Middle logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 78% of enrollment. Other groups include 11% White, 4% multiracial, 4% Black, 3% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

In terms of school funding signals, Helen Keller Middle lists 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Helen Keller Middle higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 41% of students at Helen Keller Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Helen Keller Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.2%; this one delivers 59.0%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household income runs about $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Helen Keller Middle is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Ernest S. McBride Sr. High, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Helen Keller Middle comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 51.5%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 77%: 291 students in 2018 compared to 515 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 72% to 78% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 30.6:1 in 2018 to 24.3:1 today.

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