Richard D Browning High School
📄 Shareable scorecard →Compare with peers
Most similar nearby schools
Educational Partnership Hs → Renaissance High School For The Arts → Columbus (christopher) High → Odyssey STEM Academy → Magnolia Science Academy 3 → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (+12.8%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~379 | +43 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~483 | +147 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~614 | +278 | $0 |
Straight-line extrapolation of the recent annual rate — a what-if, not a forecast of intent. Default = California's LCFF base grant for grades 9–12 ($12,423/ADA). Edit the figure to match your school.
Enrollment stability & demand — 2024-25
Two complementary signals: retention (do students stay once enrolled?) and demand (are families choosing the school?). Read against the Los Angeles County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Enrollment down 13.5% vs. county -11.5%, AND stability (77.8%) below the county median. Fewer families are choosing the school, and the ones who do aren't staying through year-end. Chronic absenteeism is also at 33.7% (up +20.4 pts from 2017-18) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.
84 of 378 students who enrolled at Richard D Browning High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (22.2% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.
Stability by student group
Nearest peer high schools
Source: California Department of Education, Stability Rate 2024-25. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥100 cumulative enrollees so by-design-high-churn continuation schools don't dominate the bottom of the distribution. Cumulative enrollment counts every student on the rolls during the year, so it can exceed peak-day enrollment.
Chronic absenteeism — 2024-25
Share of students missing 10% or more of expected attendance — the leading indicator that often precedes the demand decline shown above. Families disengaging tend to raise absenteeism first, then formally leave. Basis: grades 9–12.
Absenteeism is up 20.4 pp since 2017-18. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.
Source: California Department of Education, Chronic Absenteeism 2024-25. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥100 eligible students. CDE didn't publish a usable 2019-20 file (COVID).
SBAC academic outcomes — grade 11, 2025
Share of grade-11 students meeting or exceeding the California standard on Smarter Balanced ELA and Math. This is the academic-readiness signal that pairs with UC Reach (post-grad outcomes), stability (retention), and absenteeism (engagement). Note: statewide median Math is only ~20% — a school at 20% isn't an outlier; one at 45%+ genuinely is.
Source: California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) Smarter Balanced research files. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥30 tested students.
Student composition — 2025-26
HS grades 9–12 racial/ethnic composition and program subgroups, from CDE Census Day Enrollment. Two-year shift shown when ≥1 pt — surfaces how the community served has changed since 2023-24.
Race / ethnicity
Program subgroups
Source: California Department of Education, Census Day Enrollment 2025-26 (HS grades 9–12). Δ shown when shift is ≥1 pt since 2023-24. Categories below 0.5% omitted.
District financial profile — Long Beach Unified (FY2020)
From 4 years of NCES F-33 filings (the federally-mandated district finance survey). Public schools don't have their own books — the district does. These figures show the financial scale, revenue dependence, instruction-vs-overhead mix, and long-term debt that shape what a school can sustain.
Local: 24.9%
Federal: 13.2%
Source: NCES F-33 Annual Survey of School System Finances (Urban Institute Education Data API). Latest year currently published: FY2020. F-33 is a district-level federal filing — it reflects the Long Beach Unified as a whole, not this individual school's books. Revenue mix shows where the district's dollars come from (state aid dominates in CA via LCFF). Instruction share is current expenditure on instruction ÷ total current expenditure (national benchmark ~60%). Long-term debt is end-of-year outstanding (mostly facilities bonds).
Richard D Browning High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Long Beach · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 14% (89→77 from 2021 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of +10%.
- ▸Enrollment has been growing (+12.8%/yr); projects to ~483 by 2029.
Enrollment projection
Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools
| School | Type | Size | UC Reach | Enroll. trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richard D Browning High School | Public | 336 | — | -14% |
| Peer-group median | 28.6% | +10% | ||
| Educational Partnership Hs | Public | 311 | — | -65% |
| Renaissance High School For The Arts | Public | 404 | — | +20% |
| Columbus (christopher) High | Public | 322 | — | +32% |
| Odyssey STEM Academy | Public | 256 | 42.1% | -22% |
| Magnolia Science Academy 3 | Public | 395 | 6.0% | +26% |
| Humanities And Arts (harts) Academy Of Los Angeles | Public | 283 | — | -43% |
| College Bridge Academy | Public | 208 | — | -84% |
| Dr. Richard A. Vladovic Harbor Teacher Preparation Academy | Public | 461 | — | +24% |
| Academy of Medical Arts at Carson | Public | 466 | 28.6% | +4% |
| Eunice Sato Academy Of Math & Science | Public | 576 | — | +15% |
UC Reach = top-6 UC admits ÷ senior class (can exceed 100% when students are admitted to multiple campuses). Enrollment trend = first-to-latest grade-12 change on file. Similar schools matched on proximity, size, type. Methodology →
UC Outcomes Trend — 2021–2024
Class size from CDE grade 12 enrollment. Campus-level data — applicant/admit totals may count a student at multiple campuses more than once.
Campus Breakdown — 2024
| Campus | Applicants | Admits | Enrollees | Admit Rate | UC Reach | Yield | Avg GPA (App) | Avg GPA (Adm) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Berkeley → Elite | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| UCLA → Elite | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.77 | — |
| UC San Diego → Selective | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 7 | — | — | — | — | — | 3.82 | — |
| UC Davis → | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |