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At Lowell Elementary, in a well-off neighborhood just a short walk from Marine Stadium, the majority of students are preparing for their return to campus.
At the end of this month, about 74% of Lowell’s 534 pupils will once again learn face-to-face with their teachers and peers now that their parents opted to enroll them in the Long Beach Unified School District’s “hybrid” learning option, which splits the school day between on-campus classes and at-home learning.
Lowell is the LBUSD elementary school with the highest percentage of students signed up to return to class—an option many parents have lobbied for as failing grades spiked during the pandemic, a phenomenon that statewide research shows has been especially prevalent in poorer communities.