McKinley Elementary

As an average-sized elementary school in Long Beach, California, McKinley Elementary teaches 475 students from grades K through 5, operated by Long Beach Unified.

Within Long Beach Unified, which oversees 82 schools and 62,255 students, McKinley Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, McKinley Elementary logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 72%. Beyond that, the school reports 13% Black, 10% Asian, 2% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 85% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), McKinley Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.8%, the actual is 36.5%, a residual of +7.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household earnings sit near $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), McKinley Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Major Lynn Mokler is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around McKinley Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts McKinley Elementary at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 32.4%.

McKinley Elementary operates from a high-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. McKinley Elementary's enrollment has declined 30% since 2018, when it stood at 675 (now 475). Over the same period, the Asian share ticked up from 5% to 10%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 29.4:1 in 2018 to 22.1:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the McKinley Elementary community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.