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

High Tech Middle North County

San Marcos · 6–8 · 341 students (2024–25)

1460 West San Marcos Boulevard, 92078hightechhigh.org ↗(760) 759-2750

Open enrollment ends: .

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

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High Tech Middle North County 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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Well above California in English (reading and writing); above it in math. In grades 6–8, spring 2025, 67% met or exceeded the standard in English and 45% in math, against 49% and 36% across California.

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Source: California’s state tests (CAASPP), California Department of Education, spring 2025 Students: all students tested in grades 6–8: 331 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 North County’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, 24% exceeded the standard in English and 25% in math. 33% scored below the standard in English and 55% in math. Evidence ↓

How often do students miss school?

4 in 100 students were chronically absent in 2024–25 (13 of 343), meaning they missed 10% or more of school days. Evidence ↓

Academic achievement

How did students here do on state tests?

Well above California in English; above it in math.

State tests (CAASPP), spring 2025

In grades 6–8, spring 2025, 67% met or exceeded the standard in English and 45% 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: 331
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 · 331 tested

Exceeded
24%
Met
43%
Below the standard
33%
This school67%
California49%

67% met or exceeded in grades 6–8.

Math

Grades 6–8 · spring 2025 · 331 tested

Exceeded
25%
Met
20%
Below the standard
55%
This school45%
California36%

45% 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 22 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?

English results were higher than in 2024; math results were similar. English went from 62% to 67% and math from 47% to 45%.

English · met or exceeded · grades 6–8

202462%320 tested
→
202567%331 tested

This school

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

Math · met or exceeded · grades 6–8

202447%321 tested
→
202545%331 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?

Yes, 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 +19 points against that expected score in English, which the state calls Accelerated. In math, they scored +8 points, which it calls Accelerated.

Source
Source
CDE growth model, 2025
Students
students with scores in both years in grades 4–8: 318
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 · 318 students with scores in both years

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

+19 pts

English

The state calls it Accelerated, the fourth of its five growth levels.

+8 pts

Math

The state calls it Accelerated, the fourth 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
StudentsExceededMetNearly metNot metTested
English, grades 6–8 · This school24%43%24%9%331
English, grades 6–8 · California19%30%23%28%1,266,619
Math, grades 6–8 · This school25%20%28%27%331
Math, grades 6–8 · California20%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 20168 tested years shown

Chart and table: 2016–2025.

English met or exceeded, grades 6–8
This schoolCalifornia
0%50%100%20162021202567%49%
Math met or exceeded, grades 6–8
This schoolCalifornia
0%50%100%20162021202545%36%

The lines break across the COVID years, when state testing was waived or optional.

In grades 6–8, the share at the state’s top two levels in English went from 51% in 2016 to 67% in 2025. In math, it went from 31% in 2016 to 45% in 2025. Each year is a different group of students.

Each year’s results and tested counts

English · met or exceeded · grades 6–8
YearThis schoolCalifornia
201651%
318 tested		48%
1,366,988 tested
201754%
318 tested		48%
1,377,836 tested
201856%
310 tested		49%
1,391,379 tested
201960%
322 tested		50%
1,390,416 tested
202259%
324 tested		47%
1,277,584 tested
202363%
325 tested		46%
1,267,562 tested
202462%
320 tested		46%
1,269,432 tested
202567%
331 tested		49%
1,266,619 tested
Math · met or exceeded · grades 6–8
YearThis schoolCalifornia
201631%
318 tested		36%
1,371,026 tested
201727%
318 tested		37%
1,383,609 tested
201831%
313 tested		37%
1,394,516 tested
201932%
318 tested		38%
1,394,239 tested
202229%
325 tested		31%
1,279,506 tested
202339%
325 tested		32%
1,272,024 tested
202447%
321 tested		33%
1,277,570 tested
202545%
331 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 19 points above that expected score, and in math 8 points 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 North County’s results?

High Tech Middle North County’s own board decides its plan.

The state hasn’t placed High Tech Middle North County 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?

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

State attendance records, 2024–25

That means they missed 10% or more of school days. At the average middle school in the SBC - High Tech High district, 11 in 100 were.

Source
Source
CDE chronic absenteeism file, 2024–25
Students
chronic absence: 13 of 343 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

4 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

13 of 343 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 North County

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?

52%of students qualified for free or reduced-price meals in 2024–25, 177 of 341. California: 63%.

19teachers, 2024–25

6 yearsaverage experience, 2024–25

11%in their first year, 2024–25

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

100% 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 · 14 of 14 English learners100%
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 North County’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: (760) 759-2750Administrator: Kelly Jacob

Location and visiting

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1460 West San Marcos Boulevard, San Marcos 92078

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Questions for your visit

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

Office (760) 759-27501460 West San Marcos Boulevard, 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 year2016–2025 · 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 · subjectStudents with scoresExceededMet or exceeded
2025 · English33124%67%
2025 · Math33125%45%
2024 · English32023%62%
2024 · Math32122%47%
2023 · English32523%63%
2023 · Math32519%39%
2022 · English32422%59%
2022 · Math32510%29%
2019 · English32222%60%
2019 · Math31814%32%
2018 · English31018%56%
2018 · Math31315%31%
2017 · English31815%54%
2017 · Math31811%27%
2016 · English31814%51%
2016 · Math3189%31%

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 · subjectStudents with scoresMet or exceeded
2025 · Grade 6 · English11670%
2025 · Grade 7 · English11064%
2025 · Grade 8 · English10568%
2025 · Grade 6 · Math11643%
2025 · Grade 7 · Math11052%
2025 · Grade 8 · Math10541%
2024 · Grade 6 · English11164%
2024 · Grade 7 · English10755%
2024 · Grade 8 · English10268%
2024 · Grade 6 · Math11148%
2024 · Grade 7 · Math10745%
2024 · Grade 8 · Math10348%
2023 · Grade 6 · English11358%
2023 · Grade 7 · English10661%
2023 · Grade 8 · English10671%
2023 · Grade 6 · Math11333%
2023 · Grade 7 · Math10644%
2023 · Grade 8 · Math10642%
2022 · Grade 6 · English10956%
2022 · Grade 7 · English10757%
2022 · Grade 8 · English10864%
2022 · Grade 6 · Math10927%
2022 · Grade 7 · Math10828%
2022 · Grade 8 · Math10832%
2019 · Grade 6 · English10866%
2019 · Grade 7 · English10652%
2019 · Grade 8 · English10862%
2019 · Grade 6 · Math10831%
2019 · Grade 7 · Math10530%
2019 · Grade 8 · Math10536%
2018 · Grade 6 · English10744%
2018 · Grade 7 · English10554%
2018 · Grade 8 · English9872%
2018 · Grade 6 · Math10927%
2018 · Grade 7 · Math10528%
2018 · Grade 8 · Math9938%
2017 · Grade 6 · English10847%
2017 · Grade 7 · English10754%
2017 · Grade 8 · English10361%
2017 · Grade 6 · Math10820%
2017 · Grade 7 · Math10725%
2017 · Grade 8 · Math10337%
2016 · Grade 6 · English11054%
2016 · Grade 7 · English10649%
2016 · Grade 8 · English10251%
2016 · Grade 6 · Math11028%
2016 · Grade 7 · Math10625%
2016 · Grade 8 · Math10238%

“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
Group2018–192024–25
Female—6 in 100
Male—2 in 100
Asian—0 in 100
Hispanic or Latino—4 in 100
White—3 in 100
Students with disabilities—5 in 100
English learners—0 in 100
Low-income—6 in 100
All students—4 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
GroupEnglishnCDE categoryMathnCDE category
All students+19318Accelerated+8318Accelerated
English-only students+18216not categorized+11216not categorized
Low-income+19173Accelerated+3173Average
Hispanic or Latino+17157Accelerated+1157Average
White+22108Exceptional+14108Accelerated
English learners+1967Accelerated+267Average
Recently reclassified as fluent in English+2054not categorized−154not categorized
Students with disabilities+2046Exceptional+1746Accelerated
Asian−224Average+2724Exceptional
Long-term English learners (grades 6–8 only)018Average−518Average
English learners only+913not categorized+1213not 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+19 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

318 students

CDE growth category: Accelerated

California growth model, English: +19 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, CDE category Accelerated.

State model · math+8 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

318 students

CDE growth category: Accelerated

California growth model, math: +8 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, CDE category Accelerated.

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 92078 · not the school’s students
American Community Survey 5-year estimates · 2020–2024 · ZIP 92078 area
MeasureEstimate
Median household income$120,268
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)49%
ZIP-area population53,605
Median age38.8 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 92078 →

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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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