Bancroft Middle School, located at 5301 East Centralia Street in the North Long Beach area of Long Beach, CA 90808, serves students in grades 6–8. Enrollment is about 817 students with a student–teacher ratio near 24:1. The gender mix is roughly 54% male and 46% female. According to the most recent statewide assessment reporting, about 38% of students are proficient in math, and around 53% are proficient in reading, based directly on official accountability data. The school is a neighborhood public middle school in the Long Beach Unified School District offering a full slate of core academic subjects and electives across its standard grade span. Attendance boundaries include contiguous Long Beach elementary zones that feed into this campus, giving families a predictable progression from earlier grades to this middle placement before students move on to high school. Housing in the broader North Long Beach area commonly shows listing prices near $650,000, a level many local residents consider when coordinating long-term residence with access to school and community amenities. Bancroft is included among the middle schools in California, where academic performance and established placement patterns combine to shape how it is considered within the region’s educational landscape.