It was a tough Fall for Long Beach Poly after a disappointing season for the school’s high-profile football team. But looking at 2025 as a whole, most schools would kill for the “down year” that the Jackrabbits had. Poly won CIF Southern Section championships in softball, boys’ track and field, and beach volleyball. The Jackrabbits were also CIF-SS finalists in girls’ soccer and track and field.
The collection of hardware (plus girls’ volleyball last Fall) earned them second-place in the CIF-SS Commissioner Cup standings, awarded annually to the top program in the section. Poly finished second out of 569 schools after scoring 25 points, just two shy of Santa Margarita. The Jackrabbits are one of just a handful of public schools to compete regularly for the Commissioner Cup and have won it four times previously, the only school in Long Beach to have done so.
Poly also wrapped up a four CIF-SS title school year in 2024-25, the school’s first since 2001-2002. Their CIF-SS title haul has now reached 134 total championships, the most of any school in CIF-SS history (Santa Margarita, which charges over $22,000 a year in tuition, is at 79 by comparison). Poly also had 34 student-athletes last year sign college scholarships including to USC, Georgetown, LSU, Harvard, Michigan, Cal, and Washington State.
In addition to the championships Poly won on the field, the school also had four CIF-SS Academic Championship teams, with Poly boys’ and girls’ cross country (unweighted 3.95 and 3.957 GPAs) and boys’ and girls’ wrestling (3.765 and 3.821) all posting the highest team GPAs in the Southern Section.
The Jackrabbits’ campus also saw a groundbreaking for their $450 million campus renovation that will see state of the art academic and athletic facilities sprouting up on the city’s original high school campus over the next few years.
