From all accounts, Jesse Munuz was the last 11-year-old you’d expect to find in handcuffs.

His last report card is filled with As and Bs. He was named Barton Hill Elementary School’s 2013 “Student of the Year.”

His teacher called him respectful, a boy who follows directions.

But the fifth-grader and his family have found themselves at the center of unwanted attention after a Los Angeles school police officer broke Jesse’s wrist as she was putting him into handcuffs three weeks ago. The officer visited him at school because she thought Munoz — whose full name is Andres Jesse Munoz — was involved in a campus argument, but the boy denies the allegation.

“I was just a bystander,” he said Wednesday. Los Angeles school officials are investigating charges that excessive force was used against Jesse, who lives in San Pedro not far from the school.

His father, Andres Munoz, was told that the officer believed Jesse and another boy were becoming agitated and even potentially aggressive during an school visit with the police officer.

Jesse said he was just scared. The cuffs were removed about 20 minutes later, and he was in tears by the time he got home from school.

His mother didn’t believe him when he said he was handcuffed.

“Jesse in handcuffs?” said his mom Anita Garcia. “He’s never given us any trouble, not us or the school.”

The incident occurred late in the school day on April 22 when a couple youngsters began arguing. Jesse was a witness but said he was not involved.

But one of the boys allegedly went to school authorities the next day and said Jesse and the other boy were planning to “jump him,” said Jesse, who has two younger brothers.

Jesse and the other boy were pulled into the office. A district police officer had been summoned to the school to talk to the boys.

“He had nothing to do with it,” Garcia said of her son, who loves to read and has, according to his mother, received moral support from the school’s principal who wasn’t at work when the incident occurred.

When Jesse told her what had happened, Garcia initially was skeptical, especially since she’d received no communication from the school indicating a problem.

“If something happened they would have called,” she said. Her boys, she added, have never fought.

An initial X-ray of Jesse’s wrist was inconclusive, as the image was obscured by a growth plate. But a followup appointment with a specialist revealed that the wrist had been broken. Jesse now wears a cast, which is set to come off June 4 if the next X-ray shows it has healed.

In a written statement, Los Angeles School Police chief Steve Zipperman said the incident is “being reviewed … As in all allegations involving use of force-related injuries due to police action, this incident will be thoroughly and expeditiously investigated. This is an ongoing investigation, and because of confidentiality rights of the involved parties are mandated, no other information can be discussed publicly at this time.”

It’s left Jesse shaken and, at least for now, wary of police. Recently, walking to school, he grabbed his mom’s hand as a black-and-white drove by.

Because there are only 10 days left in the school year, his mom arranged for the remainder of Jesse’s school work to be sent home to complete. Despite having attended Barton Hill since he was in kindergarten — his brother is in the first grade there and their mother also is a Barton Hill alumnus — he prefers not to go back.

He also is opting to spend the sixth-grade at Dana Middle School rather than at Barton, his mother said. She’d rather have him stay at the elementary school, but he’s adamant that he doesn’t want to return.

Barton staff, Garcia said, has been quietly offering the family reassurance.

“Jesse is a very well-behaved boy who is respectful and is well-liked by his peers,” his teacher, Sharon Hofreiter said in a hand-written letter the family has. “I have never had any problems with him whatsoever.”

Garcia said she has no intention of suing the school district as was reported in one television spot.

“The school is being helpful,” Garcia said.