Richard D. Browning High

As a tight-knit senior high in Long Beach, California, Richard D. Browning High educates 340 students from grades 9 through 12, operated by Long Beach Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Richard D. Browning High sits 59% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 82 schools in Long Beach Unified (62,255 students total), Richard D. Browning High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Richard D. Browning High logs that 57% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder consists of 21% Black, 9% Asian, 7% White, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 76% of students at Richard D. Browning High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Richard D. Browning High is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 34.3%; Richard D. Browning High posts 16.7%, -17.6 points below that line.

Around the school, Los Angeles County reports that median household income runs about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Richard D. Browning High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Olivia Nieto Herrera Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Richard D. Browning High. On composite proficiency, Richard D. Browning High comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 37.5%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 166%: 128 students in 2018 compared to 340 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 14% to 21% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 28.4:1 in 2018 to 18.5:1 today.

On the community side, members of the Richard D. Browning High community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.