Marshall Academy of the Arts

Marshall Academy of the Arts operates as a mid-tier intermediate school in Long Beach, California, operated by Long Beach Unified. Current enrollment sits at 940 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Marshall Academy of the Arts sits 43% larger than that benchmark.

Marshall Academy of the Arts is one of 82 schools operated by Long Beach Unified, a district that educates 62,255 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Marshall Academy of the Arts shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 22% White, 9% Black, 9% Asian, 9% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Los Angeles County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Marshall Academy of the Arts has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Marshall Academy of the Arts higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Marshall Academy of the Arts performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.7%, the actual is 54.0%, a residual of +1.3 points.

Around the school, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household income runs about $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Marshall Academy of the Arts is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Burcham Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Marshall Academy of the Arts comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 64.0%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Marshall Academy of the Arts has changed only slightly, going from 951 students in 2018 to 940 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 28% to 22% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 26.4:1 in 2018 to 23.7:1 today.

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