Twain Elementary

Located at 5021 East Centralia St., in Long Beach, California, Twain Elementary is an average-sized elementary campus that serves 474 students (grades K through 5), operated by Long Beach Unified.

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

Demographically, Twain Elementary lists that 55% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest breaks down as 15% Black, 13% White, 9% multiracial, 7% Asian.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 27.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 56% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Twain Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.9%; this one delivers 47.4%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household earnings sit near $90,112, 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 Twain Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Bancroft Middle, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Twain Elementary comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 46.0%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Twain Elementary has edged down 21%, going from 603 students in 2018 to 474 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 41% to 55% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 26.2:1 in 2018 to 27.7:1 in 2025.

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