Wilson High

Located at 4400 East Tenth St., in Long Beach, California, Wilson High is a heavily attended 9-12 campus that serves 3,349 students (grades 9 through 12), overseen by Long Beach Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Wilson High sits 300% larger than that benchmark.

Within Long Beach Unified, which oversees 82 schools and 62,255 students, Wilson High is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Wilson High shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 58%. Other groups include 18% White, 12% Black, 7% Asian, 5% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 147 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 56% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Wilson High is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 46.3%; Wilson High posts 31.5%, -14.8 points below that line.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) records that median household income runs about $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 Wilson High is one.

The closest other public school is Jefferson Leadership Academies, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Wilson High. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Wilson High ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 49.5%.

Wilson High operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Wilson High has declined 10%, going from 3,703 students in 2018 to 3,349 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 25.9:1 in 2018 to 22.8:1 today.

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