Richard D. Browning High: No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.
Richard D. Browning posts 30% meeting the standard and 11.2% exceeding it, against 36% and 15.8% statewide. The gaps and the bright spots below are the real read.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Grad rate | College readiness | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 37 | 11% | 30% | 98.2% | 0.0% | 33.3% | 14.4% |
| CA average · High School | 47 | 16% | 36% | 86.6% | 33.9% | 30.2% | 3.6% |
Richard D. Browning High scores 37 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 30th percentile of 2,160 California high schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
Measures test performance, attendance, and climate — not arts, community, or your kid. How we score →
🌱 Building Momentum — This label means the data doesn't clearly sort the school one way or the other — ask what the school is proud of, and what it's working on.
Most rating sites would stop at “30% proficient” and call it done. Richard D. Browning deserves a closer read. The school sits in Long Beach, where three in four students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The seven-year arc
Has stayed near the 30th percentile since 2022.
| Grade | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 42% | 22% | 20% | 44% |
| Grade | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 7% | 2% | 13% | 17% |
The story this school is actually telling
Of 100 students here: 30 are proficient by 11th grade → 98 graduate → 0 pass an AP exam. The gaps between those bars are the questions to ask.
The 7 things our score weighs
Ask what the school is working on next. Strong numbers tell you where a school is, not where it's going.
- Ask what typically leads to a suspension, and what happens before it gets there.
- Ask what share of students complete the full college-prep course sequence, and who gets steered into it.
- Ask whether the tour can step into a working classroom — watch how the teacher handles a student who's stuck.
- Ask to tour while school's in session, and notice how hallways and transitions feel — culture shows up between classes, not just in them.
- Ask how the school communicates with families when a child starts to struggle.
- Ask what a typical day looks like for a new student in the first few weeks.
How every group of students does here
At Richard D. Browning High in Long Beach, 46.0% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 41.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Richard D. Browning High outperforms its district average for low-income students by 4.1 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (21.6% Math proficient); Hispanic students (37.8% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 5.8 percentage points for hispanic students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 50 students tested.
● share of AP enrollment vs share of total enrollment, this school only · not part of the Scope Score
Data source: U.S. Dept. of Education Office for Civil Rights, Civil Rights Data Collection, 2020-21 (biennial; newest published)
Showing up, and staying in class
Where the path goes
The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.
Estimated path based on proximity within the same district. Contact your school district for official feeder information.
Where graduates go
Where they went after graduation
Of Richard D. Browning's class of 2023, 78% enrolled in college somewhere within a year — a CSU, a community college, a UC, or out of state.
Class of 2023: 60 completers, 78% enrolled somewhere within a year
Percentages are computed by SchoolScope (count ÷ completers) from CDE-reported counts, not a CDE-native rate.
Data source: California Department of Education, 2023 cohort — the newest published; National Student Clearinghouse match.
campuses never sum to the universitywide figure — students apply to several
UC is one road of many — the full destination mix for the class of 2023 is below. And who applied isn't who the school taught: the ratio between the two reflects the self-selected pool of students who chose to apply, not what happened in the classroom. By the state's 2023 count, 78% of this class's predecessors enrolled in college somewhere within a year. More of the class of 2023 enrolled at community colleges (42) than at UC (0).
Data source: University of California Office of the President (UC Information Center), fall 2024 admissions cycle · college-going rate: California Department of Education, 2023 cohort.
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
Richard D. Browning's teachers are authorized to teach 1 of the 40 AP subjects the College Board offers — including Statistics.
Data source: College Board AP Course Audit, 2025 - 2026 audit year (authorization, not enrollment) · IB World Schools directory, name-matched · structural depth: 2020-21 federal snapshot, table 09
What gets spent here
$252 per student arrives as federal Title funding — a measure of concentrated need, not school quality.
The district's current expense of education per student, from CDE's annual SACS filing — the freshest district spending figure the state publishes.
District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.
Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →
The neighborhood it serves
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level
At 340 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California high school (≈1450).
On the state's science test (CAST), 4% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 and once in high school, and it never enters the Scope Score.
Frequently asked questions
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Your other options
Nearby High Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 57
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 67
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
A low score doesn't tell the whole story. Read: Your School Scored Low — Here's What That Actually Means
Every number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and nearest schools.
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 71 | 17% | 27% | 21% | 35% | 44% | −5 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 72 | 6% | 11% | 15% | 68% | 17% | −7 |
We show the grade rows CDE publishes for this school. A missing grade or dash can mean the school does not serve that grade, no valid result was published, or the tested group was too small to report. It does not mean zero.
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schoolwide | 48 | 2% | 2% | 75% | 21% |
CAST is tested in grades 5 and 8, then once in grade 10, 11, or 12. This row is the school's all-student aggregate. Not part of the Scope Score.
| Subgroup · ELA | Tested | MET+ | vs district | vs CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 50 | 46.0% | +4 | +8 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 37 | 37.8% | −7 | −1 |
| Black/African American | 16 | 56.3% | +20 | +23 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Grade gap | Cohort growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richard D. Browning High ← | — | 37 | 11.2% | 30.2% | — | — | 14.4% |
| Renaissance High School for the Arts | 2.4 mi | 63 | 26.2% | 50.7% | — | — | 3.0% |
| Polytechnic High | 1.8 mi | 56 | 17.0% | 40.9% | — | — | 2.5% |
| Wilson High | 1.4 mi | 53 | 15.4% | 37.6% | — | — | 5.6% |
| California average | — | 47 | 15.8% | 35.7% | — | — | 3.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Grade gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 38 | 32 | #1417 | 7.5% | 24.7% | 40.5% | 7.9% | — |
| 2023 | 33 | 26 | #1599 | 1.7% | 12.1% | 39.9% | 11.1% | — |
| 2024 | 35 | 28 | #1548 | 5.1% | 16.7% | 31.9% | 11.4% | — |
| 2025 | 37 | 30 | #1514 | 11.2% | 30.2% | 33.3% | 14.4% | — |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 21.2% | 37.0% | +15.8pp |
| Male | 20.3% | 30.2% | +9.9pp |
| Asian | 4.5% | 17.9% | +13.4pp |
| Black/African American | 16.7% | 40.3% | +23.6pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 23.6% | 34.5% | +10.9pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 25.6% | 38.3% | +12.7pp |
| English Learners | 25.0% | 40.0% | +15.0pp |
| Homeless | 33.3% | 37.0% | +3.7pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 22.5% | 36.6% | +14.1pp |
| All Students | 20.8% | 33.7% | +12.9pp |
| Two or More Races | — | 21.7% | — |
| Year | Applied | Admitted | Enrolled | GPA (applied) | GPA (admitted) | GPA (enrolled) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8 | 6 | ‹3 | 3.84 | 3.86 | — |
| 2022 | 12 | 7 | ‹3 | 3.36 | 3.67 | — |
| 2021 | 8 | 5 | ‹3 | 3.71 | 3.81 | — |
‹n = UC masks counts below n · a missing year means zero or masked — never assume zero · GPA cells blank for years with more than one contributing CEEB code (a summed GPA would be fabricated math) · GPAs live here and nowhere else on this page · Applied/Admitted/Enrolled reflect who applied, not what the school taught — no admit rate is computed or implied by this table. Series shown from 2013; full record to 1994 at the UC Infocenter.
| Campus | Year | Applied | Admitted | Enrolled |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irvine | 2024 | 7 | ‹3 | ‹3 |
| Irvine | 2022 | 8 | ‹3 | ‹3 |
| Los Angeles | 2024 | 6 | ‹3 | ‹3 |
| Los Angeles | 2022 | 8 | ‹3 | ‹3 |
| Los Angeles | 2021 | 6 | ‹3 | ‹3 |
| Merced | 2022 | 5 | 5 | ‹3 |
| Riverside | 2021 | 5 | 4 | ‹3 |
| San Diego | 2022 | 5 | ‹3 | ‹3 |
| Santa Cruz | 2024 | 5 | 3 | ‹3 |
| Universitywide | 2024 | 8 | 6 | ‹3 |
| Universitywide | 2022 | 12 | 7 | ‹3 |
| Universitywide | 2021 | 8 | 5 | ‹3 |
Σ campuses ≠ universitywide — students apply to several campuses; the Universitywide row (muted) is its own independent count, never a sum of the rows above it.
| Subject | Taught by |
|---|---|
| Statistics | this school |
Authorization ≠ a section running this year — the Ledger records what the school may teach, not seat counts.
| Measure | This school |
|---|---|
| AP offered | offered |
| AP course count | 5 |
| AP enrollment | 113 |
| IB participation | not offered |
| Dual enrollment | offered · 8 enrolled |
| Algebra I in grade 8 | not reported |
| Calculus sections | 0 |
| Physics sections | 8 |
| Chemistry sections | 8 |
| Total enrollment (CRDC) | 410 |
Shown, never scored — no entry to any composite. NULL/reserve codes render "not reported," never a fabricated zero. The equity block above this table (§4) is the per-subgroup view of this same collection.
| Destination | Completers | % (derived) |
|---|---|---|
| University of California | 0 | 0.0% |
| California State University | 4 | 6.7% |
| California community college | 42 | 70.0% |
| In-state private | 0 | 0.0% |
| Out-of-state, 4-year | 0 | 0.0% |
| Out-of-state, 2-year | 1 | 1.7% |
| Not enrolled | 13 | 21.7% |
60 completers, class of 2023 · state-reported college-going rate 78% · % column is computed by SchoolScope (count ÷ completers), not a CDE-native rate · a missing cell is CDE suppression, never a fabricated zero · source: CDE 12-mo CGR, 2023 cohort (the newest published), National Student Clearinghouse match — a different, older vintage than the fall 2024 UC admissions rows in tables 06-07 above.
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