Summary:
ZIP code 90755 has one middle school, Jessie Nelson Academy, serving grades 6–8 in the Long Beach Unified district. It reports 832 students, and the available list does not include another local middle school for comparison. The most important finding is that mathematics is its clearest area of weakness compared with state and district results.
There is no local top or bottom school to identify, but results compared with state and district figures show where the school stands out. Science is closest to the state: in 2025–2026, Jessie Nelson scored 34%, 2 percentage points below the state’s 36% and 2 points above the district’s 31%. Mathematics was the weakest subject, at 27%—11 points below the state’s 38% and 13 points below the district’s 40%. ELA was 42%, 8 points below the state and 10 below the district.
Results improved in all three subjects from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA rose 5 percentage points, mathematics 4, and science 9; the school also narrowed its state gap by 5, 3, and 6 points, respectively. SchoolDigger’s ranking improved from 1,847th of 2,783 schools (34th percentile) in 2023–2024 to 1,500th of 2,703 (45th percentile) in 2025–2026, while its rating remained two stars. Context figures include a 25.9:1 student-teacher ratio in 2024–2025 and 81% free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Chronic absenteeism was 23% in 2025–2026, compared with 25% in the district and 18% statewide.
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