Kettering Elementary

Set in Long Beach, California, Kettering Elementary is a small elementary-level community, overseen by Long Beach Unified. It teaches 348 students across grades K through 5. That puts it 25% leaner than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Kettering Elementary is one of 82 schools operated by Long Beach Unified, a district that enrolls 62,255 students overall.

On demographics, Kettering Elementary reports that the largest single group is White at 33%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder is composed of 31% Hispanic, 14% Asian, 11% multiracial, 10% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Kettering Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 32% of students at Kettering Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Kettering Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 60.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 70.4%.

Across the wider county, Los Angeles County reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Kettering Elementary is one.

Eunice Sato Academy of Math & Science is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Kettering Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kettering Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 77.3%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Kettering Elementary has fell 4%, going from 362 students in 2018 to 348 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 25.9:1 in 2018 to 21.1:1 in 2025.

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