One of the most encouraging trends of 2025 was the continued parade of ribbons being cut around sparkling new sports facilities. The Long Beach Unified School District’s two construction bonds, approved by Long Beach voters, yielded new aquatic centers at Wilson and Lakewood as well as a new football stadium at Jordan, with more improvements on the way in 2026. Compton Unified’s brand new Compton High also opened in 2025.
Jordan
“It’s been a long time coming,” Long Beach Jordan principal Keisha Irving-Holder said about the Panthers’ brand new stadium. “And the North Long Beach community deserves this.”
Jordan was the last campus to get their football field redone in the LBUSD, but it has one unique feature that differs from the rest of the district’s stadiums: a blue field.
“This field, it’s more than a field,” LBUSD superintendent Jill Baker said. It’s a huge commitment to the North Long Beach community that really builds on a lot of the district’s efforts to elevate and uplift the North Long Beach community. It stands as a beacon of what we believe in the North Long Beach community. It’s more than a field. It’s our commitment to both excellence and equity for our students and actually for the community at large.”
The Panthers also got a new video scoreboard as part of their upgrade.
New Pools
Wilson and Lakewood’s new pools have drawn rave reviews from athletes and coaches, and have helped spark further interest in the schools’ aquatic programs. Wilson’s girls’ and boys’ water polo teams were both Open Division caliber squads in 2025 with several Division 1 signees each.
Compton
After years of hosting students at nearby Roosevelt Middle School, a brand new state-of-the-art Compton High opened this Fall. The campus features a brand new football stadium, weight room, and training facility.
“Anything is better than a middle school,” football player Cash Maluia said. “We got a new weight room and field – it’s great.”
