Jefferson Leadership Academies
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The Jefferson Leadership Academies (formerly Thomas Jefferson Middle School) is a middle school in the Long Beach Unified School District in Long Beach, California, United States. The school serves students from the Rose Park and Zaferia areas of Long Beach, and feeds to Wilson High School.
Beginning in 1999, the school had been a single-gender public middle school in Long Beach, California. From sixth to eight grade, classes are separated as either all male or all female. One of the school's objectives is to provide "girls and boys safe places to take risks with their learning while encountering minimal criticism from the opposite gender," according to current (as of 2005[update]) Principal Helen Compton-Harris. However, classes are now integrated.
In 1996, controversy arose over the school's mascot, which was the Blue Devils. In 1999 the school's nickname was changed to the Jaguars.
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