Newcomb Academy

Set in Long Beach, California, Newcomb Academy is an expansive K-5 school, operated by Long Beach Unified. It serves 914 students across grades K through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Newcomb Academy sits 97% above that benchmark.

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

On the student-mix side, Newcomb Academy shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 37%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 31% White, 13% multiracial, 12% Asian, 6% Black. That is noticeably less Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 20% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Newcomb Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.5%, the actual is 74.4%, a residual of +6.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, Los Angeles County reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Newcomb Academy is one.

Nearest neighbor: Los Alamitos High, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Newcomb Academy. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Newcomb Academy at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 56.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Newcomb Academy has edged up 6%, going from 861 students in 2018 to 914 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 35% to 31% over that span.

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