Long Beach : Enrollment Is 2nd Highest and Inching Toward Record

Enrollment in the Long Beach Unified School District is inching toward an all-time record. The official enrollment at the end of the first month of school stood at 74,012. That is the largest number of students since 1963, when the district set its record of 74,564 students.

District officials expect student population to continue to rise as more students enroll. Thus far, the growth in attendance over last year is 2,558 students, the second largest increase ever. Last year, the district grew by 2,918 students.

As of June, Long Beach Unified was the fourth largest district in the state, a handful of students behind Fresno Unified. Los Angeles Unified is the state’s largest school system, with more than 625,000 students. San Diego City Unified is the next largest district with about 121,000 students.