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Long Beach High School
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Test scores
MAAP 2024-25 . % Proficient + AdvancedWhat this means: On the MAAP, Mississippi's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 94 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Mississippi schools, those numbers are about 46 and 53. Reading and writing scores are up about 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 81% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% typical for Mississippi schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Mississippi's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About 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 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.7%, the actual is 81.4%, a residual of +12.7 points.
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.
On the community side, the feed for Long Beach High School typically covers enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Harrison County at a glance
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- Harper McCaughan ElementaryMiddle · 622 students
- Long Beach Middle SchoolMiddle · 475 students
- Reeves ElementaryElementary · 453 students
- Quarles ElementaryElementary · 429 students
- Long Beach Middle School0.3 mi · 475
- Harper McCaughan Elementary1.2 mi · 622
- Quarles Elementary1.6 mi · 429
- Reeves Elementary1.9 mi · 453
- Gulfport Central Middle2.3 mi · 568
- West Elementary2.4 mi · 492