Richard D Browning High School

Long Beach · Los Angeles County · Long Beach Unified · Public

Public Los Angeles County Long Beach Unified → ~77 seniors CDS 1964725…

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At a glance

Programs & features

5 AP courses offered — Strong
Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
Gifted & talented program

Academic signals

AP rigor: 56th percentile nationally
SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 18% by test-taker volume

Composed from federal CRDC offerings, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

California College-Going Rate

78.3% of the 2022-23 graduating class enrolled in college within a year.

The share of 2022-23 graduates who enrolled at a college anywhere in the U.S. within 12 months, per the National Student Clearinghouse match the California Department of Education publishes.

Within 12 months

78.3%

of 60 graduates

Give the same class four more months and 78.3% had enrolled — CDE publishes a 16-month window alongside the 12-month one, 47 students.

Up 9 points from the 2021-22 class (69.3%).

Where the 2022-23 class enrolled

In California — 46 students (76.7%)

University of California 0.0% 0

California State University 6.7% 4

California Community College 70.0% 42

California private college 0.0% 0

Out of state — 1 students (1.7%)

Out-of-state 4-year 0.0% 0

Out-of-state 2-year 1.7% 1

CDE puts each graduate in one bucket only — whichever kind of college they were enrolled in longest — so these add up to the rate above. That is a different count from the UC Reach Score on this page, which counts a student at every UC campus that admitted them.

Source: California Department of Education, College-Going Rate (DataQuest) ↗, cohort 2022-23, posted 17-Sep-2025. Data file: cgr12mo23.txt ↗ (and the 16-month file ↗). CDE builds the rate by matching California high school completers to National Student Clearinghouse enrollment records; we publish CDE’s aggregates and hold no student-level data.

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How Richard D Browning High School compares for families

Solid mid-tier academic profile.

▸ StatewideAP rigor at the 56th percentile nationally with 5 AP courses.
▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Educational Partnership High School, Renaissance High School Arts, Columbus (christopher) High and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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Academic rigor

AP + advanced-course offerings

Strong — solid AP program + advanced courses

56th percentile nationally

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AP courses offered

Subject breadth not reported

Students taking AP courses

107

≈31 per 100 students · uptake, not just offerings

Advanced math classes

0 calculus · 2 advanced

Lab science classes

8 physics · 8 chemistry

Other rigor signals

Dual-enrollment program
Gifted/talented program

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).

SAT / ACT participation

CRDC federal data · 2020-21

Bottom 18% by test-taker volume

SAT/ACT test-takers

11th-12th graders who took 1+ college admissions test

Test-taking intensity

3.8

takers per 100 students in grades 9-12

Compared against

18,426

US high schools reporting SAT/ACT participation

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.

Federal Title I context

High-poverty school

Title I Schoolwide eligible

75.9%

FRPL rate — % of students who qualify for the federal Free or Reduced-Price Lunch program. This is the underlying federal income-eligibility signal Title I designations are computed from (ESEA Sec. 1113).

0% (no FRPL) 35% TA · 40% Schoolwide 100% (universal FRPL)

≥75% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. These schools qualify for the highest tier of federal Title I funding and typically receive extra wraparound services. Academic outcomes vary widely — check the state assessment + grad-rate tiles.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.

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.

About 4 in 10 students read and write at grade level — below the state norm — worth asking what extra support looks like.

About 1 in 10 students do math at grade level — about the state norm.

ELA — met or exceeded

n = 71

43.7%

incl. 16.9% exceeded

-15.4 pts vs. Los Angeles County median (59.1%) · CA median 54.5% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.4%

Math — met or exceeded

n = 72

16.7%

incl. 5.6% exceeded

-8.7 pts vs. Los Angeles County median (25.4%) · CA median 21.4% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 53.6%

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

Hispanic / Latino 58% +3.1

Black / African Am. 23%

Asian 7% -1.8

White 6%

Two or more 5% -1.6

Pacific Islander 1%

Filipino 1% -1.5

Program subgroups

Socioeconomically disadv. 77% +11.2

Students w/ disabilities 22% +6.7

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.

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.

34% of students miss 10%+ of school days — above the state's ~23%. Ask what the school is doing about engagement.

Chronic absent

33.7%

118 of 350 students

Absenteeism is up 20.4 pp since 2017-18. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

Los Angeles County median

25.1% · school is worse than 69% of 407 HS

Statewide median

22.8%

Chronic absenteeism by year (raw %)

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).

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment (9–12)

128 (2018) → 336 (2026)

+162.5%

Grade 12 (graduating class)

89 (2021) → 77 (2026)

-13.5%

If this trend holds (+7.0%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon	Projected Total enrollment	Change	Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027)	~360	+24	$0
3 yr (2029)	~412	+76	$0
5 yr (2031)	~471	+135	$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.

How does Richard D Browning High School really compare on getting kids to college?

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Your similar-school group includes

Educational Partnership High School · Renaissance High School Arts · Columbus (christopher) High · Odyssey STEM Academy · Magnolia Science Academy 3 · Humanities And Arts (harts) Academy Of Los Angeles · +4 more

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.

78% of students who start the year here finish it here.

Critical

Bleeding from both ends.

Enrollment down 13.5% vs. county -8.7%, 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.

-13.5% senior class, grade 12 (2021–2026)

-8.7% Los Angeles County baseline

-4.8pp gap vs. county

77.8% retention (county median 87.7%)

Senior class (grade 12) — indexed to 100 at 2021

Stability rate by year (raw %)

Stability rate

77.8%

294 of 378 students

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.

Los Angeles County median

87.7% · school is in the 21st percentile of 413 HS

Statewide median

87.3% · in the 27th percentile of 1,734 HS

Stability by student group

Socio. disadvantaged (300) 77.0%

Hispanic / Latino (215) 75.8%

Students w/ disabilities (85) 74.1%

Black / African Am. (79) 75.9%

English learners (51) 64.7%

Asian (29) 86.2%

Nearest peer high schools

Educational Partnership High School 37.1% Renaissance High School Arts 89.6% Columbus (christopher) High 52.3% Odyssey STEM Academy 93.6% Magnolia Science Academy 3 89.5%

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.

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.

Total revenue

$1266.5M

+8.2% since FY2017

Per-pupil revenue

$18,245

69,413 students enrolled

Revenue mix

State: 62.0%
Local: 24.9%
Federal: 13.2%

Instruction share

61.9%

of current spending · $8,669/pupil

Long-term debt

$1410.6M

+13.9% since FY2017

Total revenue by year ($M)

Total expenditure by year ($M)

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).

UC Reach Score ⓘ methodology

UC Application Reach Score ⓘ

13 applications

In context: CA median 80 · Top 10% statewide ≥ 238 · Los Angeles Co. Top 10% ≥ 234 · higher than 2% of CA HS.

UC Admit Rate ⓘ

N/A

— / 13 applications

UC Yield Rate ⓘ

N/A

— enrolled of — admitted

Yield vs. Enrollment Reach: Yield answers "of UC admits, what % chose UC?" — denominator is just the admits. A small admitted cohort can post a low yield even when the school sends a healthy share of its class to UC.

UC Enrollment Reach Score ⓘ

N/A

— enrollees / 77 seniors

Enrollment Reach vs. Yield: Reach answers "of the whole senior class, what share ended up at UC?" — denominator is everyone. High Yield with low Enrollment Reach is common at elite privates: most admits matriculate, but the school sends most of its class to non-UC selective colleges.

Student-Counselor Ratio ⓘ

About 336 students per counselor — typical for California, though well above the 250 experts recommend.

336:1

1.0 FTE counselors · 336 students

In context: CA median 337:1 · ASCA target 250:1.

A-G Completion ⓘ

Only 4 in 10 graduates finish the courses UC and CSU require — below the state norm. Worth asking how course access and planning work here.

42%

23 of 55 graduates · 2024-25 cohort

In context: CA median 55.9% · -14.1 pp vs. median · Los Angeles Co. 69.7%.

Selective UC Reach (UCB, UCLA, UCSD, UCSB, UCI — incl. the Elite two) ⓘ

N/A

Elite UC Reach (UCB + UCLA) ⓘ

N/A

Senior Class Size ⓘ

CDE grade 12 (exact)

Total School Enrollment ⓘ

326

All grades · CDE Census Day

Avg. Applicant GPA · top-6 UCs ⓘ

3.80

UC Outcomes Trend — 2021–2024

UC Admit Rate %

UC Reach Score (where available)

UC Admits (count, right axis)

Class size from CDE grade 12 enrollment. Campus-level data: applicant and admit totals count a student once at EACH campus. A senior admitted to UCLA and UC San Diego adds 2 to the admit total, so the total can exceed the senior class — that is the metric working as defined, not an error. The admit RATE is unaffected: both its numerator and denominator are campus-level.

Campus Breakdown — 2024

Campus	Applicants	Admits	Enrollees	Admit Rate	UC Reach Score	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 →	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

† = UCOP-suppressed (count below 3 students, hidden for privacy — actual value is 0, 1, or 2, not necessarily zero). Campus-level totals may count one student admitted to multiple UC campuses more than once; Admit Volume metrics are not the same as UC Reach, which is measured against the whole senior class. See methodology →

What This Means

A relatively small share of the senior class is entering the UC application pipeline. This may signal limited A-G completion, UC awareness gaps, or counseling capacity constraints. Broadening access is the highest-leverage opportunity for this school.

Note: the UC Reach Score sums campus-level admits across the top-six UC campuses, so a student admitted to both UCLA and UCSD is counted at each. It reflects competitive admit volume relative to class size — admit-events, not distinct students — which is why a Score can exceed 100.

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