Lindsey Academy

Lindsey Academy is one of the average-sized 6-8 campuss in Long Beach, California, overseen by Long Beach Unified, with 684 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

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

On the student-mix side, Lindsey Academy shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 73%. Other groups include 16% Black, 5% Asian, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Lindsey Academy reports 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.0:1. The state averages about 20.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 81% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lindsey Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.4%, the actual is 25.1%, a residual of -6.4 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Lindsey Academy is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

The closest other public school is Dooley Elementary, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Lindsey Academy comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 36.7%.

Lindsey Academy operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lindsey Academy has ticked down 13%, going from 785 students in 2018 to 684 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 26.8:1 in 2018 to 21.0:1 today.

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