Longfellow Elementary

As a high-enrollment K-5 school in Long Beach, California, Longfellow Elementary works with 904 students from grades K through 5, operated by Long Beach Unified. Enrollment runs roughly 94% bigger than the state mean of about 465.

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

Looking at the student body, Longfellow Elementary records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 21% White, 16% Black, 12% Asian, 9% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Longfellow Elementary has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 28.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 41% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Longfellow Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.2%, the actual is 58.6%, a residual of +3.4 points.

In the area at large, census data for Los Angeles County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Longfellow Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Hughes Middle, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Longfellow Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 40.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 9%: 994 students in 2018 compared to 904 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 36% to 41% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 32.1:1 in 2018 to 28.3:1 today.

On this page, members of the Longfellow Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.