Long Beach High School

Long Beach High School operates as a middle-of-the-pack four-year high school in Long Beach, Mississippi, operated by Long Beach School District. Current enrollment sits at 895 students spanning grades 9 through 13. That puts it 37% larger than the typical public school in Mississippi, which averages around 651 students.

Long Beach School District runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,874 students. Long Beach High School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Long Beach High School lists that White students make up the majority at 70%. Other groups include 13% Black, 11% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, 2% Asian. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 62%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 67 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 51% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Harrison County (around 74%), the school's rate is south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Long Beach High School ranks in the top 10% of Mississippi public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 70.1%; Long Beach High School posts 85.6%, +15.5 points above that line.

Across the wider county, Harrison County reports that the typical household earns roughly $59,479 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Harrison County runs 55 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,521 students), of which Long Beach High School is one.

The closest other public school is Long Beach Middle School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Long Beach High School has fell 8%, going from 976 students in 2018 to 895 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 today.

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