Webster Elementary

Webster Elementary is a medium-sized K-5 school in Long Beach, California, one of the schools within Long Beach Unified. The school enrolls 454 students in grades K through 5.

Webster Elementary is one of 82 schools operated by Long Beach Unified, a district that teaches 62,255 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Webster Elementary reports that 70% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 17% Black, 9% Asian. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Webster Elementary reports 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.6:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 78% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Webster Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.8%, the actual is 29.7%, a residual of -3.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household earnings sit near $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. Webster Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Muir K-8 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Webster Elementary comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.6%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 21%: 572 students in 2018 compared to 454 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 60% to 70% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 25.9:1 in 2018 to 21.6:1 today.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.