Summary:
ZIP code 90712 has one middle school, Hoover Middle, serving grades 6–8 with 505 students in Long Beach Unified. Since it is the only school listed, there is no meaningful comparison among schools in the ZIP code. In 2025–2026, proficiency was 45% in ELA, 33% in math and 26% in science, compared with state rates of 49%, 38% and 36%, respectively. The key takeaway is that Hoover Middle improved in all three subjects, but remained below the state in each.
Hoover Middle’s strongest relative result was grade 8 ELA: 49% of students were proficient, nearly matching the state’s 49% and trailing by just 1 percentage point. Grade 6 ELA was 40%, 8 points below the state, while grade 7 was 45%, 6 points below. Science was the weakest all-grades result relative to the state, at 26% versus 36%—a 10-point gap. The school also fell short of district proficiency by 6 points in ELA, 7 in math and 5 in science. SchoolDigger ranked it 1,338 of 2,703 schools statewide in 2025–2026, at the 50th percentile with 3 stars.
Results improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, with proficiency rising 2 percentage points in ELA, 5 in math and 7 in science. The state gaps narrowed by 2 points in ELA, 3 in math and 4 in science, though science still had the largest remaining gap. SchoolDigger’s rating also rose from 2 stars in each of the prior two years to 3 stars; its rankings were 1,504 of 2,761 in 2024–2025 and 1,429 of 2,783 in 2023–2024. Other context: chronic absenteeism was 15%, below the state’s 18% and district’s 25%; the student-teacher ratio was 21.9 in 2024–2025; and 64% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025.
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