Jordan High

Located at 6500 Atlantic Ave., in Long Beach, California, Jordan High is a high-enrollment secondary school that caters to 2,272 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within Long Beach Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Jordan High sits 171% larger than that benchmark.

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

Looking at the student body, Jordan High logs that 77% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school lists 15% Black, 5% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the resource side, Jordan High reports 104 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. About 74% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Jordan High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 21.1%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household earnings sit near $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Jordan High is one.

The closest other public school is Grant Elementary, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Jordan High. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Jordan High at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 33.4%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 14%: 2,646 students in 2018 compared to 2,272 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 24.2:1 in 2018 to 21.8:1 today.

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