Math
40%Grades 6 & 8 · Proficient or Advanced
Charter middle school
High Tech Middle Mesa
This school runs ahead of the state average. The bar itself is the harder conversation.
50% of tested students are Proficient or Advanced in English and 40% in math. Explore the evidence alongside the opportunities your child would use.
SchoolScope archetype
Culture First
What this means for your family
Ask whether the low absenteeism and suspension numbers come from what the school does or from the community it serves — both can produce the same numbers, and only a visit tells you which.
How archetypes are assigned →Data sources · Methodology · State tests: 2025
Contact
Phone(619) 510-4600
DistrictSBC - High Tech High
PrincipalJuliet Mohnkern
Grades6-8
Enrollment352 students
English
50%Grades 6 & 8 · Proficient or Advanced
Students
352Total enrollment
Chronic absence
11%Students absent 10% or more of school days
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Compare nearby schools →Academic performance
What do the results tell us?
2025 results · Grades 6 & 8 · weighted by students tested within each subject.
Proficient or Advanced combines Levels 3 and 4, formerly Standard Met and Standard Exceeded. California changed the names for 2025–26; the cut scores did not. About the labels →
Share at Proficient or Advanced
● Math┄ English
Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.
Exact annual results
| Year | Math | English |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 38% | 60% |
| 2023 | 36% | 51% |
| 2024 | 41% | 60% |
| 2025 | 40% | 50% |
Each year describes that year’s tested students. Changes between years do not follow the same children over time. Cohort-growth evidence, when available, is labeled separately below.
How achievement is distributed
AdvancedStandard Exceeded
17%ProficientStandard Met
24%DevelopingStandard Nearly Met
29%MinimalStandard Not Met
30%AdvancedStandard Exceeded
16%ProficientStandard Met
33%DevelopingStandard Nearly Met
32%MinimalStandard Not Met
18%Achievement-level percentages are not percentiles. “Developing” here is a test achievement level, separate from the SchoolScope performance band with the same name.
Annual results and the full academic record
Is it getting better · CAASPP 2022 to 2025
Slipped from the 68th to the 49th percentile since 2022.
Most rating sites would stop at “46% proficient” and call it done. High Tech Middle Mesa deserves a closer read. Two in five of its students qualify for free or reduced lunch (California: 64%) — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
As a charter, High Tech Middle Mesa enrolls by application rather than address. That changes how you get in, but it doesn't change the score.
340 tested · 3 of 3 grades published · cohort of 107 tracked
High Tech Middle Mesa scores 36 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 49th percentile of 2,177 California middle schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
Percentile among 2,177 middle schools statewide
ELAGreen(Maintained)MathOrange(Maintained)
ShowHide the by-grade tables, year by year
ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade
| Grade | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 60% | 56% | 59% | 52% |
| Grade 7 | 61% | 57% | 46% | 57% |
| Grade 8 | 60% | 47% | 61% | 47% |
Math — % met or exceeded, by grade
| Grade | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 38% | 50% | 43% | 45% |
| Grade 7 | 30% | 45% | 33% | 42% |
| Grade 8 | 37% | 22% | 39% | 35% |
Where students land · CAASPP 2024–25
Two in five of students here meet the standard. One in ten clear it by a lot.
ELA52% met or exceeded
Exceeded 16%Met 36%Nearly Met 31%Not Met 17%
Math41% met or exceeded
Exceeded 18%Met 23%Nearly Met 30%Not Met 29%
Exceeded Met Nearly Met Not Met
California middle schools · average17% exceeded · 40% met or exceeded
This school against the California average
2022–2025 trend · CDE CAASPP
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8) | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 36 | 17% | 46% | Weak · p29 | 11.3% | 0.7% |
| CA average · Middle School | 39 | 17% | 40% | Average · p50 | 18.1% | 3.6% |
This schoolCA avg
Scope3639
% Exceeded17%17%
% Met+46%40%
Growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8)Weak · p29Average · p50
Absence11.3%18.1%
Suspension0.7%3.6%
California’s growth results and student groups
State growth model · CDE growth model 2024–25
Our growth read and California's own model disagree here — the 29th percentile against the state's 50th.
Context — never part of the Scope Score
California runs its own growth model, following individual children in grades 4 through 8 rather than comparing school-wide averages the way we do — and here the two measures disagree. Ours puts this school around the 29th percentile of California middle schools; the state's puts it around the 50th in reading and math together — a better read than ours. We are not going to pretend one of those is the answer. Neither measure sees an individual child's classroom, and a disagreement this size is worth asking the principal about directly.
— pts vs expected is scale-score points above or below what California's model predicted for these same children from their own prior-year scores. It is not a percentage and not a percent of anything. A typical California middle school lands at −1 in reading, and the middle half of them fall between −8 and +6 — the spread is wide, so read the rank, not the sign. CDE blends two consecutive years into each published figure, so adjacent years share input data and no year-over-year trend can honestly be drawn from them. It covers grades 4-8 only, and it is not part of the Scope Score — we assessed it and left it out: it tracks school demographics roughly three times as strongly as our own growth measure does, and one published year is not enough to test how stable it is.
The returning cohort, two years on
ELA · 2023 · Grade 6
14%
exceeded standard · 56% met or exceeded
ELA · 2025 · Grade 8
14%
exceeded standard · 47% met or exceeded
n = 107
returning cohort
returning cohort
Percent exceeded, ELA only. SchoolScope's scored growth measure uses a different metric — mean scale-score change across ELA and Math; California's own matched-student model is below.
Both measures, each ranked in its own field
Our growth measurereturning cohort, G6→G8SchoolScope growth measure: 29th percentile among California middle schools.29th pctile
State model · readingmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, reading: +1 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 49th percentile of 7,519 reported schools.49th pctile · +1 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: +1 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 51st percentile of 7,518 reported schools.51st pctile · +1 pts
this school| the tick is the middle of the California field
Students & opportunity
Who shares in the school’s results?
Who it works for · CAASPP 2024–25
Low-income students here meet the ELA standard about even with the same group statewide.
At High Tech Middle Mesa in San Diego, 41.2% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025 and 38.2% statewide. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (29.1% Math proficient); White students (58.8% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 32.2 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 148 students tested.
Met or exceeded · reading and math combined
All students at this school: 46% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 46%, district —, state 40%46%
MaleMale: this school 46%, district —, state 42%46% · −0 vs school
FemaleFemale: this school 46%, district —, state 44%46% · −1 vs school
Socioeconomically DisadvantagedSocioeconomically Disadvantaged: this school 35%, district —, state 32%35% · −11 vs school
WhiteWhite: this school 53%, district —, state 56%53% · +7 vs school
Hispanic/LatinoHispanic/Latino: this school 36%, district —, state 32%36% · −11 vs school
Students with DisabilitiesStudents with Disabilities: this school 17%, district —, state 15%17% · −30 vs school
AsianAsian: this school 53%, district —, state 72%53% · +6 vs school
Two or More RacesTwo or More Races: this school 60%, district —, state 56%60% · +14 vs school
6 of 15 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.
this school district, same group California, same group
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Student-group results by grade
Results compare different grade groups in the same year, relative to the lowest tested grade. They do not track the same children over time. Groups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.
Low-income student ELA proficiency falls by 6.7pp from grade 6 to grade 8 at this school.
ShowHide California's growth model by student group
The state's growth model, by student group
California follows these children individually and predicts each one's score from their own prior year. Each row is read against the same group at a typical California middle school — not against zero, and not against this school's all-students figure, because the state's expectation already differs by group.
Reading
English Only225 studentsEnglish Only, reading: +6 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 225 students.+6 pts · +6 vs typical
Low-income students147 studentsLow-income students, reading: −5 scale-score points versus expectation, against −3 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 147 students.−5 pts · −2 vs typical
White115 studentsWhite, reading: +6 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 115 students.+6 pts · +6 vs typical
Hispanic or Latino students111 studentsHispanic or Latino students, reading: −6 scale-score points versus expectation, against −2 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 111 students.−6 pts · −4 vs typical
Students with disabilities54 studentsStudents with disabilities, reading: −3 scale-score points versus expectation, against −13 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 54 students.−3 pts · +10 vs typical
Math
English Only225 studentsEnglish Only, math: +2 scale-score points versus expectation, against −3 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 225 students.+2 pts · +5 vs typical
Low-income students147 studentsLow-income students, math: −2 scale-score points versus expectation, against −5 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 147 students.−2 pts · +3 vs typical
White115 studentsWhite, math: +6 scale-score points versus expectation, against +1 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 115 students.+6 pts · +5 vs typical
Hispanic or Latino students111 studentsHispanic or Latino students, math: −10 scale-score points versus expectation, against −6 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 111 students.−10 pts · −4 vs typical
Students with disabilities54 studentsStudents with disabilities, math: −5 scale-score points versus expectation, against −8 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 54 students.−5 pts · +3 vs typical
this school typical California middle school, same group| the centre tick is 0 = as predicted
— 5 more groups are reported here with between 11 and 29 students. We hold those back on purpose: at that size the figure swings about 17 points on its own, and a quarter of such groups land past the state's top or bottom cut point by chance alone. They are listed with their student counts in the data appendix. — A group not listed at all had fewer than 11 students with a growth score, so California published nothing for it here. That is a privacy protection, not a judgment about those students. — Context only. None of this enters the Scope Score.
The daily experience
What is it like to be a student here?
Students per teacher
Student–teacher ratio is a schoolwide staffing measure, not an average class size.
Teacher experience
Average teacher experience in the published staffing record. It does not measure individual teacher effectiveness.
Chronically absent
The share of students absent for at least 10% of their enrolled school days. Attendance reflects both school and out-of-school circumstances.
The people teaching · CDE staffing 2024–25
About 15 students for every teacher here.
Context — never part of the Scope Score
Students per teacher15 · district 21
Teaching staff21 teachers
Avg. experience4.4 years
First-year teachers14%
PrincipalJuliet Mohnkern
Attendance & discipline · 2024–25
Kids here show up more, and get suspended less, than the state average.
Chronic absenteeismChronic absenteeism: this school 11.3%, district 14.6%, state 18.1%11.3% · −6.8pp vs state
Suspension rateSuspension rate: this school 0.7%, district —, state 3.6%0.7% · −2.9pp vs state
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
Resources & neighborhood
What sits behind the school experience?
The neighborhood · ACS 2024
Two in five of students here qualify for free or reduced lunch, versus three in five statewide.
Context — never part of the Scope Score
Worth knowing
At 352 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California middle school (≈860).
On the state's science test (CAST), 26% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 and once in high school, and it never enters the Scope Score.
Hispanic or Latino35.2% · district 55.1% · CA 56.1%
White34.7% · district 22.5% · CA 19.9%
Asian14.8% · district 8.6% · CA 10.2%
Black3.7% · district 3.5% · CA 4.8%
Other11.7% · district 10.3% · CA 9.0%
GenderFemale 46.3% · Male 53.1% · Non-binary 0.6%
Free or reduced lunch41.2% · CA 64%
Median income$100K · CA $85K
Median home value$818K · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+46% · CA 35%
ZIP population45,249
Median age39 years
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level
Culture & philosophy
What is the school’s approach?
School-stated approach · questions for your visit
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What are the alternatives?
Compare schools serving the same grade stage. Private schools have no comparable state-test score.
2025 · middle schools · combined reading and math measures. Percentiles compare schools within their enrollment group.
No nearby schools in this category are listed. The school being viewed stays visible for reference.
| School | Type | Performance band | Advanced | Proficient or Advanced | Distance | Select |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High Tech Middle Mesa | Charter | Developing | 17% | 46% | School being viewed | |
| Standley Middle | Public | Strong | 41% | 66% | 2.9 mi | |
| Marston Middle | Public | Strong | 27% | 55% | 1.3 mi | |
| Innovation Middle | Public | Developing | 14% | 37% | 1.6 mi |
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Nearby public schools across grade levels, plus private options within 10 miles.
Private schools do not receive a Scope Score or statewide ranking on SchoolScope.
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Worth a school visit
Ask how the school challenges kids who clear the standard early. The gap between meeting and exceeding is where pacing shows.
- Ask what changes between grade 6 and grade 8 here, and who teaches the older kids.
- Ask whether the tour can step into a working classroom — watch how the teacher handles a student who's stuck.
- Ask to tour while school's in session, and notice how hallways and transitions feel — culture shows up between classes, not just in them.
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Questions
Frequently asked questions
Is High Tech Middle Mesa a good middle school?
High Tech Middle Mesa has a Scope Score of 36 out of 100, placing it in the 49th percentile of California middle schools and ranked #1,116 statewide. 17.0% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is near the California average of 17.2%. The Scope Score weights 6 dimensions for middle schools: exceeded standard (42%), met or exceeded (proficient) (23%), grade 6-to-8 growth (20%), chronic absenteeism (5%), suspension rate (5%), and ELPAC English Learner proficiency (5%). Data source: California Department of Education CAASPP 2025, analyzed by SchoolScope.
What are High Tech Middle Mesa's CAASPP test scores?
On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 46.4% of students at High Tech Middle Mesa met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 17.0% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 29.4% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 17.0% went beyond it. Most rating sites report only the combined "proficient" number. SchoolScope surfaces the exceeded-vs-met split because it shows how many students go beyond the standard rather than only meeting it. 680 student-subject combinations were assessed.
How does High Tech Middle Mesa rank in California?
High Tech Middle Mesa ranks #1,116 among California middle schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 49th percentile. This ranking is based on a weighted composite of 2025 CAASPP test performance (exceeded and met rates), same-cohort growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8), chronic absenteeism, and suspension rate. Unlike single-number ratings, the Scope Score shows what drives the ranking so parents can decide what matters most to their family. See full methodology.
Is High Tech Middle Mesa getting better or worse?
SchoolScope follows the same cohort of students across grades rather than comparing two different grades in the same year. At High Tech Middle Mesa that cohort is 2023 G6 → 2025 G8, measured in SBAC scale-score points. Its gain ranks weak among California middle schools — roughly the 29th percentile, behind the typical school at this level. Read the ranking, not the raw point gain: scale scores rise with age, so nearly every school posts a positive number and only the relative position tells you anything. Growth is weighted at 20% in the middle Scope Score because it is the least demographically confounded signal available — it tracks change over time rather than the level students arrived at. See full methodology.
What is the attendance and school culture like at High Tech Middle Mesa?
11.3% of students at High Tech Middle Mesa are chronically absent (missing 10% or more of school days), which is better than the California average of 18.1%. The suspension rate is 0.7%, indicating a low-discipline-incident environment. SchoolScope includes these culture metrics in the Scope Score because they reflect day-to-day school experience in ways test scores alone cannot.
How does High Tech Middle Mesa compare to other schools in San Diego?
High Tech Middle Mesa scores 36/100 (49th percentile) among California middle schools. To compare with nearby schools, SchoolScope shows the same metrics side by side: exceeded rate, proficiency, growth trajectory, and school culture indicators. The school serves 352 students. Use the schools in San Diego page or the map view to compare all middle schools nearby.
How does High Tech Middle Mesa serve low-income and underrepresented students?
At High Tech Middle Mesa in San Diego, 41.2% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025 and 38.2% statewide. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (29.1% Math proficient); White students (58.8% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 32.2 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 148 students tested. SchoolScope shows disaggregated test scores by demographic subgroup so you can see how a school performs for your child's specific group — not just the school-wide average. Subgroup data is context, not part of the Scope Score: we don't penalize schools for who they serve. See our equity approach.
A low score doesn't tell the whole story. Read: Your School Scored Low — Here's What That Actually Means
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Inspect the full record
Public sources, visible methods and the underlying school record. Source years and limitations stay attached to the evidence.
How the Scope Score is calculated
On a narrow screen, scroll the table sideways to see the state comparison and weights.
What the score weighs · CAASPP 2024–25
The 5 things our score weighs
The school's returning cohort — mostly, not exactly, the same kids two years on — gained 29 scale-score points across the span. Almost every school gains points, so we rank the gain against every other California school in this level.
| What we weigh | Here | State | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exceeded standard | 17.0% | 17.2% | 42% |
| Met or exceeded | 46.4% | 40.0% | 23% |
| Growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8) | Weak | average | 20% |
| Chronic absenteeism | 11.3% | 18.1% | 5% |
| Suspension rate | 0.7% | 3.6% | 5% |
Source CAASPP 2025 · California Department of Education. Measures test performance, attendance, and climate — not arts, community, or your kid. How the score is built
A closer look at the evidence
High Tech Middle Mesa: reading the evidence
High Tech Middle Mesa posts 46% meeting the standard against 40% statewide — ahead of most, with real headroom above the bar.
Subject proficiency describes tested students, while graduation describes a graduating cohort. These figures are not successive stages followed by the same students.
Ask whether the low absenteeism and suspension numbers come from what the school does or from the community it serves — both can produce the same numbers, and only a visit tells you which.
Explore the underlying data →Every number: score factors, grades, student groups and downloads
Every number · For the data nerds
Every number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and nearest schools.
High Tech Middle Mesa is ranked #1,116 statewide · #3 of 3 in SBC - High Tech High.
01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25
| Factor | School | State | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exceeded standard | 17.0% | 17.2% | 42% |
| Met or exceeded | 46.4% | 40.0% | 23% |
| Growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8) | Weak | average | 20% |
| Chronic absenteeism | 11.3% | 18.1% | 5% |
| Suspension rate | 0.7% | 3.6% | 5% |
- Exceeded standard
- ↓ vs CA 17.2% · index 50 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint
- Met or exceeded
- ↑ vs CA 40.0% · index 56 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint
- Growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8)
- ↓ vs CA average · 29th pctile
- Chronic absenteeism
- ↑ vs CA 18.1% · index 60 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint · ▲ 0.2pp higher vs 2024
- Suspension rate
- ↑ vs CA 3.6% · index 62 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint · ▼ 0.9pp lower vs 2024
02By grade & subgroupCAASPP 2024–25 · % of tested students
ShowHide table 02 — By grade & subgroup
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 117 | 18% | 34% | 31% | 17% | 52% | +6 |
| Grade 7 | 112 | 16% | 41% | 28% | 15% | 57% | +10 |
| Grade 8 | 111 | 14% | 32% | 33% | 20% | 47% | +1 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 117 | 19% | 27% | 27% | 27% | 45% | +11 |
| Grade 7 | 112 | 21% | 21% | 31% | 27% | 42% | +8 |
| Grade 8 | 111 | 14% | 21% | 32% | 33% | 35% | +3 |
We show the grade rows CDE publishes for this school. A missing grade or dash can mean the school does not serve that grade, that we hold no valid result for it, or that the tested group was too small to report. It does not mean zero.
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schoolwide | 110 | 9% | 17% | 61% | 13% |
CAST is tested in grades 5 and 8, then once in grade 10, 11, or 12. This row is the school's all-student aggregate. Not part of the Scope Score.
| Subgroup · ELA | Tested | MET+ | vs district | vs CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 148 | 41.2% | — | +3 |
| White | 119 | 58.8% | — | −3 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 117 | 41.0% | — | +2 |
03Nearest middle schoolssorted by Scope Score · Grade gap = grade 3 vs grade 5, this year, different students; Cohort growth = one school's returning cohort tracked across grades (mostly, not exactly, the same kids), in scale-score points — that's the measurement the Scope Score weights
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Grade gap | Cohort growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High Tech Middle Mesa ← | — | 36 | 17.0% | 46.4% | −7.7pp | +29 pts | 0.7% |
| Standley Middle | 2.9 mi | 59 | 40.6% | 66.5% | −8.1pp | — | 2.0% |
| Marston Middle | 1.3 mi | 50 | 27.5% | 54.7% | −1.0pp | — | 5.0% |
| Innovation Middle | 1.6 mi | 35 | 14.4% | 37.1% | +12.3pp | — | 5.9% |
| California average | — | 39 | 17.2% | 40.0% | +1.5pp | — | 3.6% |
04More measurescontext · not all part of the Scope Score
ShowHide table 04 — More measures
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Grade gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 41 | 68 | #667 | 18.2% | 47.7% | 25.0% | 9.2% | -0.6pp |
| 2023 | 40 | 67 | #697 | 15.0% | 45.9% | 17.3% | 2.1% | -18.7pp |
| 2024 | 41 | 64 | #767 | 16.7% | 47.0% | 11.1% | 1.6% | -1.3pp |
| 2025 | 36 | 49 | #1116 | 17.0% | 46.4% | 11.3% | 0.7% | -7.7pp |
Grade gap = this year's grade 3 vs grade 5 result, two different sets of students, not a trend for any one child — it is not the measurement the Scope Score's growth dimension uses. See §01 above and /methodology#verdicts for the school's actual scored (cohort) growth.
05California growth model, by student group2025 · scale-score points vs the state's prediction · shown, never scored
ShowHide table 05 — California growth model, by student group
| Group | Reading | n | CDE band | Math | n | CDE band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Students | +1 | 329 | Average | +1 | 329 | Average |
| English Only | +6 | 225 | not categorised | +2 | 225 | not categorised |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | −5 | 147 | Average | −2 | 147 | Average |
| White | +6 | 115 | Accelerated | +6 | 115 | Accelerated |
| Hispanic or Latino | −6 | 111 | Moderate | −10 | 111 | Moderate |
| Students with Disabilities | −3 | 54 | Average | −5 | 54 | Average |
| Asian | +1 | 52 | Average | +8 | 52 | Accelerated |
| English Learner | −4 | 52 | Average | −3 | 52 | Average |
| Recently Reclassified Fluent-English Proficient Only | −4 | 39 | not categorised | −9 | 39 | not categorised |
| Filipino | −2 | 17 | Average | −2 | 17 | Average |
| Two or More Races | +27 | 15 | Exceptional | +6 | 15 | Accelerated |
| Long-Term English Learner (grades 6-8 only) | −3 | 14 | Average | −1 | 14 | Average |
| Black or African American | −2 | 13 | Average | +1 | 13 | Average |
| English Learners Only | −5 | 13 | not categorised | +6 | 13 | not categorised |
Whole scale-score points above or below what CDE's model predicted for these same children from their own prior-year scores — not a percentage, not a percentile. Statewide a typical school lands near +1 with a spread of about 13 points either side, so read a figure against its group's own typical value, not against zero. Muted rows have fewer than 30 students with a growth score — published by CDE, held back from the narrative sections above because at that size the figure swings about 17 points on its own. “Not categorised” is CDE assigning no band — English Only, Recently Reclassified, and English Learners Only receive a value and no band, for every school in the state. It is not a missing number. Long-Term English Learner counts cover grades 6-8 only (CDE), so that row is not comparable to the All Students row. Most figures blend two consecutive years, so adjacent published years share input data and no trend line can honestly be drawn across them. A group absent from this table had fewer than 11 students with a growth score and was never published. Grades 4-8 only. None of this enters the Scope Score — it is more strongly correlated with school demographics than our own growth measure, and one published year is not enough to test its reliability.
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EXC = exceeded standard · MET+ = met or exceeded ("proficient") · Source: CA Dept. of Education · CAASPP 2024–25 · n=2,177 middle schools · Vintages: climate subgroups 2019+2025 · district finance per its label · ACS 2022 · Data updated 2026-09-18
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