Jefferson Middle

Jefferson Middle operates as a high-enrollment middle school in San Gabriel, California, run under San Gabriel Unified. Current enrollment sits at 1,013 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Jefferson Middle sits 54% above that benchmark.

San Gabriel Unified comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 4,482 students; Jefferson Middle is among them.

In terms of who attends, Jefferson Middle reports that 52% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder looks like 39% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 15% Asian, putting the school's mix considerably more Asian than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Jefferson Middle reports 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.7:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 70% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Jefferson Middle is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 37.8%; this one delivers 56.0%, a residual of +18.1 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Jefferson Middle is one campus in the mix.

Roosevelt Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Jefferson Middle comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 57.2%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Jefferson Middle has edged down 14%, going from 1,181 students in 2018 to 1,013 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 25.0:1 in 2018 to 21.7:1 today.

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