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Awards

James Jordan Middle School (JJMS) is a proud recipient of the following national, statewide, and county-level awards and recognitions:

 

  • 2025 – U.S. News Best Middle School – Ranked in the top 6% of all California middle schools.
  • 2024 – JJMS’s Principal, Mrs. Griselda Lara, was one of 12 Hispanic charter school leaders statewide to be recognized by the California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) as an outstanding Latinx charter leader who oversees a member school with a strong academic record.
  • 2024 – California Honor Roll by Educational Results Partnership (ERP), which recognizes top public schools, school districts, and charter schools that have outperformed their peers in closing achievement gaps, particularly among higher-poverty and historically disadvantaged student populations. To make the Honor Roll, a school or district must have comprehensively performed above the mean at least 80% of the time for all cohorts of students served and for all grade levels served.
  • 2023 – School of the Year, Hart Vision Equity and Innovation Award (CCSA). This award is presented to charter schools in California that have a demonstrated record of outstanding achievement in serving all students.
  • 2023 – California Honor Roll by Educational Results Partnership (ERP).
  • 2022 – JJMS was profiled in CCSA’s 2022 Portrait of the Movement Report, which highlights JJMS for its work leading the state in its California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) growth from 2017 to 2019. In particular, JJMS achieved the following statewide results:
    • Highest Math Growth in California for All Students (growth score of 152) AND for Low-Income Students (154),
    • Second Highest Math Growth with Latino Students (151), and
    • Third Highest Math Growth with English Learners (150).
  • 2021 – California Distinguished School (California Department of Education). JJMS earned its second California Distinguished School award, and it placed in the top 4% of more than 2,600 California public middle and high schools).
  • 2019 – California Distinguished School (California Department of Education).
  • 2019 – Named a Top Los Angeles Public School for Underserved Students by Innovate Public Schools in collaboration with the University of Southern California Sol Price Center for Social Innovation and Rossier School of Education Center for Education Policy, Equity and Governance. JJMS made it onto two Top School lists based on its strong results in both English AND Math proficiency for low-income Latino students in 2017-18.