Naples Elementary

Located at 5537 The Toledo, in Long Beach, California, Naples Elementary is an intimate primary school that hosts 338 students (grades K through 5), part of Long Beach Unified. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 27% leaner than typical.

Long Beach Unified comprises 82 schools with combined enrollment of 62,255 students; Naples Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Naples Elementary reports that the largest single group is White at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder consists of 32% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 7% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 31% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Naples Elementary reports 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 25.8:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 26% of students at Naples Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Naples Elementary ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 64.2%; Naples Elementary posts 81.7%, +17.5 points above that line.

Across the wider county, Los Angeles County reports that median household income runs about $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Naples Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

The closest other public school is Lowell Elementary, roughly 0.7 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Naples Elementary comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 57.3%.

Naples Elementary operates from an inner-city location.

Looking at the recent track record. Naples Elementary's enrollment has declined 3% since 2018, when it stood at 349 (now 338). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 16% to 32%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 26.9:1 in 2018 to 25.8:1 today.

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