Public school / Middle
Jefferson Middle
Torrance, California
- NCES ID
- 063942002213
- District
- Torrance Unified
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Jefferson Middle is a public middle school in Torrance, California, run by Torrance Unified. It enrols 638 students — the 23549th largest of 10,418 public schools in California.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
638
Teachers
26.0
Students per teacher
24.5
Free or reduced-price lunch
24.9%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Torrance Unified
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Torrance High1,999 students
- 2South High1,841 students
- 3West High1,840 students
- 4North High1,791 students
- 5Victor Elementary971 students
- 6Hickory Elementary815 students
- 7Madrona Middle668 students
- 8Edward J. Richardson Middle661 students
- Enrollment+34.6%
- Teachers+23.8%
- Students per teacher+10.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−63.3%
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory