Kearny Eng Innov & Design: Most kids here clear the bar, year after year. The question is what happens after that.
Kearny Eng Innov & Design posts 57% meeting the standard, and 30.4% going well past it. Most kids here keep up. Fewer get pushed further. Ask the school what it does for a child who already finds the work easy.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Grad rate | College readiness | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 55 | 30% | 57% | 95.2% | 0.0% | 14.3% | 2.5% |
| CA average · High School | 47 | 16% | 36% | 86.6% | 33.9% | 30.2% | 3.6% |
Kearny Eng Innov & Design scores 55 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 67th percentile of 2,160 California high schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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🌱 Building Momentum — This label means the data doesn't clearly sort the school one way or the other — ask what the school is proud of, and what it's working on.
Most rating sites would stop at “57% proficient” and call it done. Kearny Eng Innov & Design deserves a closer read. The school sits in San Diego, where three in four students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
Kearny Eng Innov & Design's low-income kids hit 64.3% proficiency in ELA — a number the same group reaches at 38.2% statewide. If you're trying to read past zip-code-driven test scores, that's the signal worth weighing.
The seven-year arc
Has stayed near the 67th percentile since 2019.
Proficiency here is back to its pre-pandemic level — 57% meet the standard, about where the school stood in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 75% | 66% | 84% | 81% | 74% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 43% | 35% | 39% | 32% | 41% |
The story this school is actually telling
Of 100 students here: 57 are proficient by 11th grade → 95 graduate → 0 pass an AP exam. The gaps between those bars are the questions to ask.
Kearny Eng Innov & Design's most underrated number
64.3% of low-income students met the ELA standard — versus 38.2% for the same group statewide. That's the strongest kind of signal a school can post: it holds across income lines.
The 7 things our score weighs
Ask how the school challenges kids who clear the standard early. The gap between meeting and exceeding is where pacing shows.
- Ask whether extra support — tutoring, counseling, small groups — reaches kids across income lines, not just the students already ahead.
- Ask what share of students complete the full college-prep course sequence, and who gets steered into it.
- 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.
- Ask how the school communicates with families when a child starts to struggle.
- Ask what a typical day looks like for a new student in the first few weeks.
How every group of students does here
At Kearny Eng Innov & Design in San Diego, 64.3% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 42.6% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Kearny Eng Innov & Design outperforms its district average for low-income students by 21.7 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (31.1% Math proficient); Hispanic students (72.2% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 38.2 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 42 students tested.
9 of 15 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.
Showing up, and staying in class
Where the path goes
The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.
Estimated path based on proximity within the same district. Contact your school district for official feeder information.
Where graduates go
Where they went after graduation
Of Kearny Eng Innov & Design's class of 2023, 57% enrolled in college somewhere within a year — a CSU, a community college, a UC, or out of state.
Class of 2023: 68 completers, 57% enrolled somewhere within a year
Percentages are computed by SchoolScope (count ÷ completers) from CDE-reported counts, not a CDE-native rate.
Data source: California Department of Education, 2023 cohort — the newest published; National Student Clearinghouse match.
campuses never sum to the universitywide figure — students apply to several
UC is one road of many — the full destination mix for the class of 2023 is below. And who applied isn't who the school taught: the ratio between the two reflects the self-selected pool of students who chose to apply, not what happened in the classroom. By the state's 2023 count, 57% of this class's predecessors enrolled in college somewhere within a year. More of the class of 2023 enrolled at community colleges (28) than at UC (0).
Data source: University of California Office of the President (UC Information Center), fall 2025 admissions cycle · college-going rate: California Department of Education, 2023 cohort.
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
$2,199 per student arrives as federal Title funding — a measure of concentrated need, not school quality.
The district's current expense of education per student, from CDE's annual SACS filing — the freshest district spending figure the state publishes.
District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.
Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →
The neighborhood it serves
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level
At 297 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California high school (≈1450).
On the state's science test (CAST), 38% 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.
Frequently asked questions
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Your other options
Nearby High Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 61
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 68
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
Every number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and nearest schools.
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 68 | 38% | 35% | 13% | 13% | 74% | +25 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 71 | 23% | 18% | 21% | 38% | 41% | +17 |
We show the grade rows CDE publishes for this school. A missing grade or dash can mean the school does not serve that grade, no valid result was published, or the tested group was too small to report. It does not mean zero.
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schoolwide | 84 | 17% | 21% | 46% | 15% |
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 | 42 | 64.3% | +22 | +26 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 36 | 72.2% | +31 | +33 |
| Students with Disabilities | 17 | 35.3% | +12 | +18 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Grade gap | Cohort growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kearny Eng Innov & Design ← | — | 55 | 30.4% | 57.2% | — | — | 2.5% |
| High Tech High Mesa | 1.7 mi | 64 | 42.4% | 69.4% | — | — | 1.1% |
| School for Entrepreneurship and Technology | 0.9 mi | 62 | 38.8% | 69.0% | — | — | 3.2% |
| Kearny College Connections | 0 mi | 56 | 31.8% | 56.5% | — | — | 1.3% |
| California average | — | 47 | 15.8% | 35.7% | — | — | 3.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Grade gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 54 | 64 | #744 | 28.2% | 58.9% | 10.3% | 3.7% | — |
| 2022 | 50 | 58 | #876 | 21.1% | 50.7% | 22.3% | 4.8% | — |
| 2023 | 60 | 77 | #495 | 37.9% | 61.3% | 21.5% | 2.8% | — |
| 2024 | 51 | 59 | #878 | 18.4% | 56.1% | 15.6% | 2.2% | — |
| 2025 | 55 | 67 | #717 | 30.4% | 57.2% | 14.3% | 2.5% | — |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 6.5% | 20.3% | +13.8pp |
| Male | 7.4% | 8.2% | +0.8pp |
| Asian | 3.0% | 8.6% | +5.6pp |
| Black/African American | 5.3% | 7.1% | +1.8pp |
| White | 8.3% | 8.3% | +0.0pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 7.7% | 14.1% | +6.4pp |
| Two or More Races | 3.6% | 5.3% | +1.7pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 16.3% | 19.4% | +3.1pp |
| English Learners | 9.8% | 17.9% | +8.1pp |
| Homeless | 4.5% | 5.6% | +1.1pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 7.7% | 10.7% | +3.0pp |
| All Students | 7.2% | 10.6% | +3.4pp |
| Year | Applied | Admitted | Enrolled | GPA (applied) | GPA (admitted) | GPA (enrolled) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | 3 | ‹3 | 4.00 | — | — |
| 2024 | 20 | 11 | 6 | 4.04 | 4.19 | 4.16 |
| 2023 | 10 | ‹3 | ‹3 | 3.83 | — | — |
| 2022 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 4.11 | 4.17 | — |
| 2021 | 25 | 11 | 5 | 3.90 | 4.22 | 4.22 |
| 2020 | 18 | 10 | 7 | 4.02 | 4.22 | 4.24 |
| 2019 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3.80 | 3.90 | — |
| 2018 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 3.87 | 4.11 | — |
| 2017 | 6 | 4 | ‹3 | 3.92 | — | — |
| 2016 | 11 | 4 | ‹3 | 3.63 | — | — |
| 2015 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 3.67 | — | — |
| 2014 | 8 | ‹3 | ‹3 | 3.55 | — | — |
‹n = UC masks counts below n · a missing year means zero or masked — never assume zero · GPA cells blank for years with more than one contributing CEEB code (a summed GPA would be fabricated math) · GPAs live here and nowhere else on this page · Applied/Admitted/Enrolled reflect who applied, not what the school taught — no admit rate is computed or implied by this table. Series shown from 2014; full record to 1994 at the UC Infocenter.
| Campus | Year | Applied | Admitted | Enrolled |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berkeley | 2024 | 10 | ‹3 | ‹3 |
| Berkeley | 2023 | 7 | ‹3 | ‹3 |
| Berkeley | 2022 | 7 | ‹3 | ‹3 |
| Berkeley | 2021 | 15 | ‹3 | ‹3 |
| Davis | 2025 | 5 | ‹3 | ‹3 |
| Davis | 2021 | 9 | 5 | ‹3 |
| Irvine | 2024 | 12 | ‹3 | ‹3 |
| Irvine | 2022 | 8 | 3 | ‹3 |
| Irvine | 2021 | 19 | 5 | ‹3 |
| Los Angeles | 2024 | 15 | ‹3 | ‹3 |
| Los Angeles | 2023 | 5 | ‹3 | ‹3 |
| Los Angeles | 2022 | 9 | ‹3 | ‹3 |
| Los Angeles | 2021 | 20 | ‹3 | ‹3 |
| Riverside | 2021 | 5 | ‹3 | ‹3 |
| San Diego | 2025 | 7 | ‹3 | ‹3 |
| San Diego | 2024 | 18 | 5 | 3 |
| San Diego | 2023 | 9 | ‹3 | ‹3 |
| San Diego | 2022 | 10 | 3 | 3 |
| San Diego | 2021 | 22 | 10 | 4 |
| Santa Barbara | 2025 | 5 | ‹3 | ‹3 |
| Santa Barbara | 2022 | 5 | ‹3 | ‹3 |
| Santa Barbara | 2021 | 8 | ‹3 | ‹3 |
| Universitywide | 2025 | 8 | 3 | ‹3 |
| Universitywide | 2024 | 20 | 11 | 6 |
| Universitywide | 2023 | 10 | ‹3 | ‹3 |
| Universitywide | 2022 | 11 | 8 | 3 |
| Universitywide | 2021 | 25 | 11 | 5 |
Σ campuses ≠ universitywide — students apply to several campuses; the Universitywide row (muted) is its own independent count, never a sum of the rows above it.
| Measure | This school |
|---|---|
| AP offered | not offered |
| AP course count | not reported |
| AP enrollment | not reported |
| IB participation | not offered |
| Dual enrollment | offered · 73 enrolled |
| Algebra I in grade 8 | not reported |
| Calculus sections | 0 |
| Physics sections | 4 |
| Chemistry sections | 4 |
| Total enrollment (CRDC) | 320 |
Shown, never scored — no entry to any composite. NULL/reserve codes render "not reported," never a fabricated zero. The equity block above this table (§4) is the per-subgroup view of this same collection.
| Destination | Completers | % (derived) |
|---|---|---|
| University of California | 0 | 0.0% |
| California State University | 10 | 14.7% |
| California community college | 28 | 41.2% |
| In-state private | 0 | 0.0% |
| Out-of-state, 4-year | 1 | 1.5% |
| Out-of-state, 2-year | 0 | 0.0% |
| Not enrolled | 29 | 42.6% |
68 completers, class of 2023 · state-reported college-going rate 57% · % column is computed by SchoolScope (count ÷ completers), not a CDE-native rate · a missing cell is CDE suppression, never a fabricated zero · source: CDE 12-mo CGR, 2023 cohort (the newest published), National Student Clearinghouse match — a different, older vintage than the fall 2025 UC admissions rows in tables 06-07 above.
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