Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8
Jessie Nelson Academy, Signal Hill, CA
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 832
- Teachers (FTE)
- 32.0
- Students per teacher
- 26.0
- Grades
- 6 to 8
This school's ratio is 2.3 higher than the district figure of 23.7. The California average across schools is 21.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 1951 Cherry Ave., Signal Hill, CA 90755
- Phone
- (562)591-6041
- District
- Long Beach Unified
- County
- Los Angeles County
- Level
- Middle
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- NCES school ID
- 062250002708
School meals
- Free lunch
- 632
- Reduced-price lunch
- 38
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 67080.5% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 489Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- Yes (CEP school)
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other middle schools in Long Beach Unified
- Hughes Middle 1,214 students
- Stanford Middle 1,165 students
- Jefferson Leadership Academies 1,004 students
- Franklin Classical Middle 991 students
- Marshall Academy of the Arts 940 students
- Washington Middle 849 students
- Bancroft Middle 806 students
- Rogers Middle 773 students
- Hamilton Middle 748 students
- Lindsey Academy 684 students
- Stephens Middle 658 students
- Helen Keller Middle 515 students
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.