# Stephens Middle

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/stephens-middle-long-beach

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062250002759`
- **School name**: Stephens Middle
- **Location**: Long Beach, CA 90810
- **Address**: 1830 West Columbia St.
- **District**: Long Beach Unified (LEAID `0622500`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 33.80890, -118.21799
- **Phone**: (562)595-0841

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 658
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 35
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 18.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 76.9%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Red
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: Red
  - math: Red
  - ela: Red
  - chronic_absent: Red

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 49.6% proficient — 648 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 35.9% (260 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 13.9% (102 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.9% (13 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.2% (15 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 82.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 19.1% — 132 students
- **English Learners**: 21.7% — 150 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 74 students
- **Autism**: 17 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 12 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 8 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $21,936
- **Federal share**: $4,675
- **State + local share**: $17,261
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 692
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,439,829
- **Federal share**: 15.4%
- **State share**: 60.1%
- **Local share**: 24.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,045,934

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $118,152
- **Poverty rate**: 6.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 30.1%
- **Unemployment**: 6.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,473
- **Foreign-born residents**: 37.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 8.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.9 miles (DEL AMO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 182
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.39 miles (EAGLE INDUSTRIES)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LONG BEACH UTILITIES DEPARTMENT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2017-04-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 11.3449 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Muir K-8** — 0.5 mi away, 24.4% (this school: 35.9%)
- **Webster Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 31.6% (this school: 35.9%)
- **Hudson** — 0.7 mi away, 34% (this school: 35.9%)
- **Garfield Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 23.3% (this school: 35.9%)
- **Birney Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 28.8% (this school: 35.9%)

### ela proficiency
- **Webster Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 36.6% (this school: 34.8%)
- **Garfield Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 44.5% (this school: 34.8%)
- **Birney Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 42.4% (this school: 34.8%)
- **Cabrillo High** — 1.1 mi away, 36% (this school: 34.8%)
- **Lafayette Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 42.9% (this school: 34.8%)

### math proficiency
- **Intellectual Virtues Academy of Long Beach** — 2.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Del Amo Elementary** — 2.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Polytechnic High** — 2.5 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Hughes Middle** — 2.5 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Signal Hill Elementary** — 2.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/stephens-middle-long-beach
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/stephens-middle-long-beach/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/stephens-middle-long-beach/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/stephens-middle-long-beach/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/stephens-middle-long-beach/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/stephens-middle-long-beach/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/stephens-middle-long-beach/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/stephens-middle-long-beach/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/stephens-middle-long-beach/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/stephens-middle-long-beach/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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