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Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8

Stephens Middle, Long Beach, CA

CEP schoolStephens Middle is a public middle school in Long Beach, part of Long Beach Unified. It enrolled 658 students in 2024-25, with 18.8 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
658
Teachers (FTE)
35.0
Students per teacher
18.8
Grades
6 to 8

This school's ratio is 4.9 lower 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.

This school18.8
District23.7
California21.9
United States15.3

School details

Address
1830 West Columbia St., Long Beach, CA 90810
County
Los Angeles County
Level
Middle
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
City: Large
NCES school ID
062250002759
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
459
Reduced-price lunch
47
Free or reduced-price lunch
50676.9% of enrollment.
Direct certification
330Students 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

Middle schools elsewhere in Long Beach

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.