Hughes Middle

Hughes Middle operates as a high-enrollment 6-8 campus in Long Beach, California, one of the schools within Long Beach Unified. Current enrollment sits at 1,214 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Hughes Middle sits 84% bigger than that benchmark.

Hughes Middle is one of 82 schools operated by Long Beach Unified, a district that caters to 62,255 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Hughes Middle reports that 49% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 17% Asian, 17% Black, 8% White, 7% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 24.1:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hughes Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.0%; this one delivers 46.5%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Los Angeles County shows 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. Hughes Middle is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Longfellow Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 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 Hughes Middle at 4th of 6; the average score across the group is 44.7%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 19%: 1,491 students in 2018 compared to 1,214 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 30.0:1 in 2018 to 24.1:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.