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What's one thing Powell Academy for Success gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
706
Elementary
DISTRICT 562 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LONG BEACH UNIFIED·NCES 062250008025
Powell Academy for Success
150 Victoria St., Long Beach, CA 90805 · (310) 631-8794 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL706 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 37% of California public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
24.4:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 25.0:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
80%
565 students
DISTRICT 62% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 83 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 56 | 8% |
| Grade 2 | 59 | 8% |
| Grade 3 | 65 | 9% |
| Grade 4 | 68 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 99 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 86 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 99 | 14% |
| Grade 8 | 91 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (83) is 9% smaller than its 8th grade class (91).
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
36.9%
CA avg 49.1% . +2.9pp since 2014
Math
29.8%
CA avg 37.7% . +7.8pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 30 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 8 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 12.7% | 24.2% | 28.2% | 34.9% |
| Math | 11.9% | 17.9% | 24.6% | 45.7% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 36.9% | 29.8% |
| 2023-24 | 32.4% | 25.5% |
| 2022-23 | 36.0% | 21.3% |
| 2021-22 | 34.9% | 22.2% |
| 2020-21 | 36.0% | 23.6% |
| 2018-19 | 45.1% | 39.1% |
| 2017-18 | 50.6% | 36.3% |
| 2016-17 | 40.6% | 36.0% |
| 2015-16 | 44.0% | 33.0% |
| 2014-15 | 34.0% | 22.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
31.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.6%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Powell Academy for Success
Powell Academy for Success's state test result (31.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Powell Academy for Success this school | 706 | 80.0% | 31.2% |
| Victoriano Elementary Moreno Valley | 608 | 83.9% | 44.4% |
| Summerwind Elementary Palmdale | 569 | 81.5% | 16.3% |
| La Jolla Elementary Moreno Valley | 671 | 84.1% | 27.0% |
| Tierra Bonita Elementary Lancaster | 636 | 86.0% | 21.2% |
| Marsh Elementary Antioch | 522 | 81.4% | 6.9% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Powell Academy for Success ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.2% | #3,378 of 5,151 | #843 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 29.8% | #3,245 of 5,172 ▲ 333 | #845 of 1,129 ▲ 49 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 36.9% | #3,230 of 5,172 ▲ 279 | #781 of 1,129 ▲ 59 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +4.8pp | #1,722 of 5,116 | #482 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 706 | #724 of 5,915 | #131 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 24.4:1 | #4,015 of 5,352 | #917 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.1% | #2,599 of 5,354 | #417 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 80.0% | #2,186 of 5,625 | #694 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -43.2% | #86 of 3,837 | #44 of 947 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
706
-263 (-27%) vs 2020
-31% since 2000-01, when it was 1,029
Student : Teacher
24.4:1
was 24.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 706 | 29 | 24.4:1 | 80% (565) |
| 2023-24 | 777 | 32.2 | 24.2:1 | 78% (608) |
| 2022-23 | 806 | 34.9 | 23.1:1 | 73% (586) |
| 2020-21 | 969 | 40 | 24.2:1 | 83% (801) |
| 2017-18 | 1,242 | 50 | 24.8:1 | 90% (1,122) |
| 2015-16 | 1,309 | 48 | 27.3:1 | 88% (1,152) |
| 2010-11 | 1,227 | N/A | N/A | 91% (1,112) |
| 2000-01 | 1,029 | 48 | 21.4:1 | 91% (932) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Powell Academy for Success.
Since 2017-18: students down 43% (1,242 to 706); teachers down 42% (50 to 29).
About Powell Academy for Success
Powell Academy for Success is an elementary school in Long Beach, California, reachable at (310) 631-8794. The school runs kindergarten through 8 and enrolls 706 students. Elementary schools in California average about 465 students, which makes this school 52% above average.
Federal data list 82 schools in Long Beach Unified, with 62,255 students enrolled.
About 65% of the student body at Powell Academy for Success is Hispanic. Enrollment also includes 24% Black, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial, and 3% Pacific Islander. Among people living in Los Angeles County, the Hispanic share is about 48%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 52%.
Powell Academy for Success has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 24.4:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in California is 22.3:1. At Powell Academy for Success, 80% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The 70% average for public schools in Los Angeles County is 10 points lower.
On the allk12 Grade, Powell Academy for Success lands at C+, ahead of 37% of California public elementary schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Powell Academy for Success is 1.5 points below the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 31.2% actual, 32.6% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in California.
For the population of Los Angeles County, the median household earns about $90,112 a year, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Across Los Angeles County, 2,244 public schools serve about 1,265,907 students.
The closest school to Powell Academy for Success is King Elementary, located about 0.8 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Powell Academy for Success ranks 2nd of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 31.2% against a local average of 29.1%.
Its location is classified as City: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
From 969 students in 2020-21, enrollment fell to 706 by 2024-25.
Powell Academy for Success has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Los Angeles County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
9,808,667
Census ACS
Median income
$90,112
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
2,244
1,265,907 students
Quick facts
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Frequently asked questions
About Powell Academy for SuccessHow many students attend Powell Academy for Success?
Powell Academy for Success enrolls approximately 706 students in grades KG-08.
What age range does Powell Academy for Success serve?
Powell Academy for Success serves students from grade KG through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Powell Academy for Success?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Powell Academy for Success is approximately 24.4:1 (29 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Powell Academy for Success?
At Powell Academy for Success, the student body is approximately 2% White, 65% Hispanic, 24% Black, 4% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Powell Academy for Success?
Powell Academy for Success is overseen by Long Beach Unified in Los Angeles County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.