Mann Elementary

Mann Elementary, a modestly sized K-5 school in Long Beach, California, operated by Long Beach Unified, instructs 320 students, covering grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 31% leaner than the state mean of about 465.

Long Beach Unified runs 82 schools in total, collectively educating 62,255 students. Mann Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Mann Elementary shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 55% of enrollment; the rest consists of 17% Black, 13% White, 8% multiracial, 6% Asian.

On the resource side, On paper, Mann Elementary has 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.3:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 68% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Mann Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.6%, the actual is 39.9%, a residual of +0.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Mann Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Fremont Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Mann Elementary comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 49.8%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Mann Elementary's enrollment has contracted 11% since 2018, when it stood at 359 (now 320). The Black share of enrollment decreased from 22% to 17% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 24.8:1 in 2018 to 21.3:1 in 2025.

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