Prisk Elementary

As a moderately sized elementary campus in Long Beach, California, Prisk Elementary instructs 469 students from grades K through 5, operated by Long Beach Unified.

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

On the student-mix side, Prisk Elementary shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 40%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder is composed of 27% White, 15% multiracial, 10% Asian, 6% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully less Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 26.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 27% of students at Prisk Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Prisk Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 63.5%; this one delivers 75.8%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household income runs about $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%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Prisk Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Stanford Middle, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Prisk Elementary. On composite proficiency, Prisk Elementary comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 63.6%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Prisk Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 16% since 2018, when it stood at 557 (now 469). Hispanic enrollment moved from 28% to 40% across the same window.

On the community side, members of the Prisk Elementary community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.