Summary
Wilson High is a Long Beach, California, public high school in the Long Beach Unified district, serving grades 9–12 with 3,349 students. In 2025–2026, about 46% of students met the ELA standard, compared with 20% in math and 15% in science. ELA is the school’s strongest tested subject, but results were below state and district levels in every subject. The clearest concern is Wilson’s especially weak math and science performance against those benchmarks.
Compared with the state, Wilson was behind by 4 percentage points in ELA, 18 in math, and 21 in science; compared with its district, it was behind by 5, 20, and 16 points, respectively. It also trailed the average of six nearby same-district high schools serving grades 9–12: those schools averaged 55% in ELA, 35% in math, and 29% in science. Graduation is a bright spot: Wilson’s rate was 93% in 2025–2026, above the district’s 91% and state’s 88%. Attendance remains a concern, with 30% of students chronically absent, compared with 25% in the district and 18% statewide.
Results have declined over the four years supplied: ELA fell 10 percentage points from 2022–2023 to 2025–2026, math fell 5, and science fell 9. SchoolDigger places Wilson at the 40th percentile statewide with 2 stars in 2025–2026, down from the 67th percentile and 3 stars in 2022–2023. Its student-teacher ratio was 22.8 in 2024–2025, versus a nearby-school average of 19.7. The school’s free/reduced lunch eligible rate was 55.7% in 2024–2025, close to the same-district peer average of 56.2%. SchoolDigger’s student-group rankings show a notable historical strength: Wilson ranked at the 83rd percentile for English Language Learner Students in 2023–2024, compared with its overall 57th percentile that year. More recently, its Multi-racial Students ranking was at the 18th percentile in 2025–2026, down from the 42nd percentile in 2023–2024.
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