Independent charter school · SBC - High Tech High · San Diego, California

High Tech Middle Mesa

San Diego · 6–8 · 352 students (2024–25)

5331 Mount Alifan Drive Building 400, 92111hightechhigh.org ↗(619) 510-4600

Open enrollment ends: Monday, February 15.

Applying for 2027–28. From the school’s site ↗, read October 28, 2026. Later applications lose lottery priority.

High Tech Middle Mesa is a charter school for grades 6–8. Its latest state test results are from spring 2025, so it has no 2026 Scope Score.

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Near California in English (reading and writing); above it in math. In grades 6–8, spring 2025, 52% met or exceeded the standard in English and 41% in math, against 49% and 36% across California.

Sources

The sentence above: Source: California’s state tests (CAASPP), California Department of Education, spring 2025 Students: all students tested in grades 6–8: 340 Comparison: California: CDE’s grades 6–8 rows for the whole state combined, weighted by students tested (our calculation; 1,266,619 in English, 1,272,526 in math tested). The comparisons use the same grades and year.

Common questions

How do I get in?

Apply on High Tech Middle Mesa’s own application, by the dates its site lists. Charter schools set their own enrollment steps and dates. Evidence ↓

How many students reached the top test level here?

In grades 6–8, spring 2025, 16% exceeded the standard in English and 18% in math. 48% scored below the standard in English and 59% in math. Evidence ↓

How often do students miss school?

11 in 100 students were chronically absent in 2024–25 (39 of 355), meaning they missed 10% or more of school days. Evidence ↓

Academic achievement

How did students here do on state tests?

Near California in English; above it in math.

State tests (CAASPP), spring 2025

In grades 6–8, spring 2025, 52% met or exceeded the standard in English and 41% in math, against 49% and 36% across California.

Source

Source: California’s state tests (CAASPP), California Department of Education, spring 2025
Students: all students tested in grades 6–8: 340
Comparison: California: CDE’s grades 6–8 rows for the whole state combined, weighted by students tested (our calculation; 1,266,619 in English, 1,272,526 in math tested). The comparisons use the same grades and year.

Exceeded standardMet standardBelow the standard

English

Grades 6–8 · spring 2025 · 340 tested

Exceeded: 16%
Met: 36%
Below the standard: 48%

This school52%

California49%

52% met or exceeded in grades 6–8.

Math

Grades 6–8 · spring 2025 · 340 tested

Exceeded: 18%
Met: 23%
Below the standard: 59%

This school41%

California36%

41% met or exceeded in grades 6–8.

New to these scores? Read CAASPP scores explained: how to read your child’s report →

How does math compare with English?

In grades 6–8, spring 2025, math trails English by 11 percentage points in the share who met or exceeded the standard, against 13 points across California. The grades 6–8 cards above give each subject’s share.

Have results changed?

Results in both subjects were similar to 2024. English went from 56% to 52% and math from 39% to 41%.

English · met or exceeded · grades 6–8

202456%326 tested

→

202552%340 tested

This school

California, same grades46% → 49%2024 → 2025 · 1,269,432 → 1,266,619 tested

Math · met or exceeded · grades 6–8

202439%325 tested

→

202541%340 tested

This school

California, same grades33% → 36%2024 → 2025 · 1,277,570 → 1,272,526 tested

Each year is a different group of students.

Did students here score above what the state expected?

About as expected, in both subjects. California sets an expected score for each student from that student’s own score the year before. In 2025, students here in grades 4–8 scored +1 point against that expected score in English, which the state calls Average. In math, they scored +1 point, which it calls Average.

Source

Source: CDE growth model, 2025
Students: students with scores in both years in grades 4–8: 329
Comparison: Points are scale-score points against the state’s expected score for each student; the category is CDE’s, quoted as published. It describes results, not causes.

Grades 4–8 · 2025 · 329 students with scores in both years

Points above or below what the state expected from the same students’ earlier scores.

+1 pts

English

The state calls it Average, the third of its five growth levels.

+1 pts

Math

The state calls it Average, the third of its five growth levels.

Ask: How do students get support, choose courses, and prepare for the move to high school?

All four levelsThe state’s test levels Exceeded, Met, Nearly met and Not met, with tested counts

Share of students tested at each level, spring 2025
Students	Exceeded	Met	Nearly met	Not met	Tested
English, grades 6–8 · This school	16%	36%	31%	17%	340
English, grades 6–8 · California	19%	30%	23%	28%	1,266,619
Math, grades 6–8 · This school	18%	23%	30%	29%	340
Math, grades 6–8 · California	20%	16%	23%	41%	1,272,526

Below the standard combines the state’s two lowest test levels, Nearly met and Not met. Data source: California Department of Education, spring 2025. The state comparison combines CDE’s rows for the same grades, weighted by students tested (our calculation).

Read English and math separately, then look at progress and the courses students can take.

Each grade’s results, every tested year ↓

Results since 20224 tested years shown · English and math have been above California in every tested year since 2022

Chart and table: 2022–2025.

English met or exceeded, grades 6–8

This schoolCalifornia

0%50%100%20222024202552%49%

Math met or exceeded, grades 6–8

This schoolCalifornia

0%50%100%20222024202541%36%

In grades 6–8, the share at the state’s top two levels in English went from 60% in 2022 to 52% in 2025. In math, it went from 35% in 2022 to 41% in 2025. Each year is a different group of students.

Each year’s results and tested counts

English · met or exceeded · grades 6–8
Year	This school	California
2022	60% 323 tested	47% 1,277,584 tested
2023	53% 323 tested	46% 1,267,562 tested
2024	56% 326 tested	46% 1,269,432 tested
2025	52% 340 tested	49% 1,266,619 tested

Math · met or exceeded · grades 6–8
Year	This school	California
2022	35% 323 tested	31% 1,279,506 tested
2023	39% 323 tested	32% 1,272,024 tested
2024	39% 325 tested	33% 1,277,570 tested
2025	41% 340 tested	36% 1,272,526 tested

How the state’s growth measure worksPoints above or below what the state expected from the same students’ earlier scores

California uses each student’s English and math scores from the year before to set an expected score, based on how students with similar earlier scores did across the state. Zero would mean students here scored as expected. In English they scored 1 point above that expected score, and in math 1 point above it.

The state sorts every school’s growth result into five growth levels, from Minimal to Exceptional.

Here, as at most schools, the state’s figure blends the two most recent years, so it moves more slowly than one year’s scores.

What you can do

Who can act on High Tech Middle Mesa’s results?

High Tech Middle Mesa’s own board decides its plan.

The state hasn’t placed High Tech Middle Mesa in a support program. Federal designation under the Every Student Succeeds Act, 2025–26. Source

Where is its yearly plan?

San Diego County Office of Education authorized this charter; its current term ends June 30, 2030.

Authorizer from the California Department of Education’s charter term file; term from its Charter School Database, checked October 22, 2026. Source

Life at school

How often do students miss school?

11 in 100 students were chronically absent in 2024–25.

State attendance records, 2024–25

That means they missed 10% or more of school days.

Context Close to the 11 in 100 at the average middle school in the SBC - High Tech High district: a pattern across the district.

Source

Source: CDE chronic absenteeism file, 2024–25
Students: chronic absence: 39 of 355 students counted for it
Comparison: Each comparison is the rate at the average school (our average of school rates), not a pooled rate.

Chronically absent, 2024–25

11 in 100This school

11 in 100At the average middle school in the SBC - High Tech High district

18 in 100At the average California middle school

39 of 355 students were chronically absent, meaning they missed 10% or more of school days.

Ask: When a child starts missing school, who calls the family, and how soon?

Ask families and staff yourselfWhat to ask the people at High Tech Middle Mesa

Ask current families how the school keeps them informed, and what happened when their child needed help. Ask staff how long teachers tend to stay.

Questions for your visit ↓

Every learner

Who goes here?

Students, families and teachers

Who are the families and teachers?

41%of students qualified for free or reduced-price meals in 2024–25, 145 of 352. California: 63%.

21teachers, 2024–25

4 yearsaverage experience, 2024–25

14%in their first year, 2024–25

Are English learners moving up on the state’s English test?

50% of English learners here moved up at least one level on the state’s English test (ELPAC), or stayed at the top, spring 2025 to spring 2026.

Spring 2025 to spring 2026 · English learners with state English test (ELPAC) scores in both years

This school · 9 of 18 English learners50%

California · 355,274 of 748,91647%

It counts students moving up the test’s levels, so a student can count here before becoming fluent. Data source: California Department of Education, 2026 Dashboard ↗.

Ask: How does the school help English learners reach the top level of the state’s English test?

Next steps

How do I get in?

Apply on High Tech Middle Mesa’s own application, by the dates its site lists. Charter schools set their own enrollment steps and dates.

Before you apply

Confirm this school’s current process directly.

Eligibility and entry grades: Which grades are accepting applications, and who is eligible?
Application and lottery: What are the deadlines, enrollment priorities, and lottery or waitlist steps?
The daily logistics: What transportation and before- or after-school options are available?

School website: hightechhigh.org ↗Office: (619) 510-4600Administrator: Juliet Mohnkern

Location and visiting

Get directions

5331 Mount Alifan Drive Building 400, San Diego 92111

Directory location · Explore nearby schools on the map. Confirm enrollment with the school.

Questions for your visit

How do students get support, choose courses, and prepare for the move to high school?
When a child starts missing school, who calls the family, and how soon?
How does the school help English learners reach the top level of the state’s English test?
Which math courses can students take, and how are placements decided?
Which electives and high-school transition supports are available?

Office (619) 510-46005331 Mount Alifan Drive Building 400, directions (opens Google Maps in a new tab)

Source records

Every figure on this page, with its source, grades, year and count.

CDE assessment recordsCDE CAASPP 2026 · every level, as published · raw grade–subject rows

What each level means: California's level descriptions.

All Grades is an aggregate, not another group of students. Same-year grade groups are not matched children. A grade the school doesn't teach has no row. “Suppressed” marks a result CDE blanks because fewer than 11 students tested (CDE’s reporting rule); “none tested” marks a grade CDE lists with no students tested; “not on file” marks a result missing from the records we hold. None of them means zero.

The spring 2026 CAASPP records we hold have no English or math rows for this school. Its earlier results are under Every tested year.

Every tested year2022–2025 · rates, tested counts, and each grade

A grade the school doesn't teach has no row. “Suppressed” marks a result CDE blanks because fewer than 11 students tested (CDE’s reporting rule); “none tested” marks a grade CDE lists with no students tested; “not on file” marks a result missing from the records we hold. None of them means zero.

English and math by test year · all tested grades

Year · subject	Students with scores	Exceeded	Met or exceeded
2025 · English	340	16%	52%
2025 · Math	340	18%	41%
2024 · English	326	17%	56%
2024 · Math	325	17%	39%
2023 · English	323	14%	53%
2023 · Math	323	16%	39%
2022 · English	323	21%	60%
2022 · Math	323	15%	35%

Each year names its school year end (2026 = 2025–26). “Students with scores” counts each subject on its own, so don’t add the English and math counts together. A dash is unavailable, not zero.

Earlier years · grade and subject

Year · grade · subject	Students with scores	Met or exceeded
2025 · Grade 6 · English	117	52%
2025 · Grade 7 · English	112	57%
2025 · Grade 8 · English	111	47%
2025 · Grade 6 · Math	117	45%
2025 · Grade 7 · Math	112	42%
2025 · Grade 8 · Math	111	35%
2024 · Grade 6 · English	115	59%
2024 · Grade 7 · English	106	46%
2024 · Grade 8 · English	105	61%
2024 · Grade 6 · Math	115	43%
2024 · Grade 7 · Math	105	33%
2024 · Grade 8 · Math	105	39%
2023 · Grade 6 · English	107	56%
2023 · Grade 7 · English	109	57%
2023 · Grade 8 · English	107	47%
2023 · Grade 6 · Math	107	50%
2023 · Grade 7 · Math	109	45%
2023 · Grade 8 · Math	107	22%
2022 · Grade 6 · English	110	60%
2022 · Grade 7 · English	110	61%
2022 · Grade 8 · English	103	60%
2022 · Grade 6 · Math	110	38%
2022 · Grade 7 · Math	110	30%
2022 · Grade 8 · Math	103	37%

“Students with scores” counts the students tested in that grade, subject and year. A missing result is not zero, and each year’s row is a different group of children.

Chronic absence by student groupState records · this school and each student group · 2018–19 and 2024–25

Group	2018–19	2024–25
Female	—	12 in 100
Male	—	10 in 100
Asian	—	6 in 100
Black or African American	—	14 in 100
Filipino	—	0 in 100
Hispanic or Latino	—	17 in 100
Two or more races	—	6 in 100
White	—	8 in 100
Students with disabilities	—	15 in 100
English learners	—	13 in 100
Low-income	—	11 in 100
All students	—	11 in 100

Two reported school years only; no intervening-year result is implied. Source: CDE school-level chronic absenteeism by student group.

Student groups: the state’s growth measureCalifornia School Dashboard 2025 · points above or below what the state expected

Group	English	n	CDE category	Math	n	CDE category
All students	+1	329	Average	+1	329	Average
English-only students	+6	225	not categorized	+2	225	not categorized
Low-income	−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 learners	−4	52	Average	−3	52	Average
Recently reclassified as fluent in English	−4	39	not categorized	−9	39	not categorized
Filipino	−2	17	Average	−2	17	Average
Two or more races	+27	15	Exceptional	+6	15	Accelerated
Long-term English learners (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 categorized	+6	13	not categorized

CDE reports scale-score points against the state’s expected score, not a percentage or percentile. All imported groups remain visible; a missing group has no imported record shown here. CDE growth covers grades 4–8.

Growth recordsthe state’s student-by-student measure

California growth model · points vs expected

State model · English+1 pts vs expected

matched students, grades 4–8

CDE California growth model · 2025 Dashboard

Weighted school estimate; assessments from 2022–23, 2023–24, and 2024–25

All students, grades 4–8

329 students

CDE growth category: Average

State model · math+1 pts vs expected

matched students, grades 4–8

CDE California growth model · 2025 Dashboard

Weighted school estimate; assessments from 2022–23, 2023–24, and 2024–25

All students, grades 4–8

329 students

CDE growth category: Average

Source notes. CDE reports scale-score points against the state’s expected score for matched students, never a percentage. CDE's 2025 Dashboard weighted school estimate uses assessments from 2022–23, 2023–24, and 2024–25; adjacent reporting editions should not be read as independent annual changes. The CDE measure covers grades 4–8.

Fundingschool and district spending, from state and federal finance records · each row names its fiscal year and measure

Per-pupil spending

District · current expense$10,180 per pupil

NCES F-33 · FY 2020–21 (2021) · fall district membership: 333 pupils

California · selected district mean$14,491 per pupil

NCES F-33 · FY 2020–21 (2021) · SchoolScope’s unweighted mean across 818 selected California district finance records

How the California mean was selected

SchoolScope starts with its selected California finance records, not every NCES California district. For FY 2020–21, it calculates an unweighted mean of NCES F-33 current expense per pupil. District records contribute once, regardless of enrollment. The calculation keeps records with positive per-pupil current expense, enrollment over 100, CCD agency type 1, and a recorded district name; it excludes names ending in County Office of Education, Department of Education, or Superintendent of Schools. This is a SchoolScope calculation, not a state-published spending average.

59% of district spending reaches instruction — CA average is 60%.

NCES F-33 district fiscal-year history, 2019–⁠2021; latest district record shown: 2021

2021$10,180 per pupil

2020$9,919 per pupil

2019$9,921 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

The surrounding ZIP codeCensus Bureau survey, 2020–2024 · ZIP 92111 · not the school’s students

American Community Survey 5-year estimates · 2020–2024 · ZIP 92111 area
Measure	Estimate
Median household income	$99,644
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)	46%
ZIP-area population	45,249
Median age	38.5 years

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2020–2024 5-year estimates. Median household income covers the past 12 months and is reported in 2024 inflation-adjusted dollars. Bachelor's degree or higher uses adults age 25 and over as its population. A dash is unavailable, not zero; a reported zero remains zero. ZIP-area figures do not establish the school's attendance area or describe its enrolled students. See all schools in ZIP code 92111 →

Downloads and methodologyCSV · sources · corrections

Data sources: public data sources, including the California Department of Education · state tests (CAASPP) 2025–26 · Census survey (ACS) 2020–2024 · staffing and finance name their own sources and years beside each figure · Data updated October 15, 2026.

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High Tech Middle Mesa

Common questions

How do I get in?

How many students reached the top test level here?

How often do students miss school?

How did students here do on state tests?

English

Math

How does math compare with English?

Have results changed?

English · met or exceeded · grades 6–8

Math · met or exceeded · grades 6–8

Did students here score above what the state expected?

English

Math

Each year’s results and tested counts

Who can act on High Tech Middle Mesa’s results?

Where is its yearly plan?

How often do students miss school?

Chronically absent, 2024–25

Who goes here?

Who are the families and teachers?

Are English learners moving up on the state’s English test?

How do I get in?

Before you apply

Location and visiting

Questions for your visit

Source records

Per-pupil spending

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