Milpitas Middle College High: Most kids here clear the bar, year after year. The question is what happens after that.
Milpitas Middle College posts 61% 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 | 56 | 30% | 61% | 100.0% | 16.7% | 24.2% | 1.5% |
| CA average · High School | 44 | 16% | 36% | 86.6% | 33.9% | 30.2% | 3.6% |
Milpitas Middle College High scores 56 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 77th percentile of 2,160 California high schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
Measures test performance, attendance, and climate — not arts, community, or your kid. How we score →
🌱 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 “61% proficient” and call it done. Milpitas Middle College deserves a closer read. The school sits in Milpitas, where two in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The seven-year arc
Has held the 77th-percentile line every tested year since 2022.
| Grade | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 93% | 80% | 68% | 74% |
| Grade | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 43% | 53% | 50% | 48% |
The story this school is actually telling
Of 100 students here: 61 are proficient by 11th grade → 100 graduate → 17 pass an AP exam. The gaps between those bars are the questions to ask.
The 6 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 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
6 of 10 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 Milpitas Middle College's class of 2023, 94% enrolled in college somewhere within a year — a CSU, a community college, a UC, or out of state.
Class of 2023: 18 completers, 94% 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.
In fall 2025, 3 of Milpitas Middle College's 23 graduates enrolled in the University of California system.
7 of 7 campuses are masked below UC's privacy floor — a protection, not a verdict.
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, 94% of this class's predecessors enrolled in college somewhere within a year. More of the class of 2023 enrolled at community colleges (11) than at UC (2).
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
$117 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 55 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California high school (≈1450).
On the state's science test (CAST), 52% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
Frequently asked questions
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Your other options
Nearby High Schools
2 within ~3 mi · avg 45
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 80
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 peer comparisons.
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 23 | 39% | 35% | 4% | 22% | 74% | +27 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 23 | 22% | 26% | 13% | 39% | 48% | +24 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 23 | 13% | 39% | 39% | 9% |
CAST is tested in grades 5, 8, and once in high school — not annually. Not part of the Scope Score.
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milpitas Middle College High ← | — | 56 | 30.4% | 60.9% | — | 1.5% |
| Milpitas High | 0.2 mi | 66 | 40.0% | 67.3% | — | 2.4% |
| Calaveras Hills | 1.6 mi | 24 | 2.6% | 12.8% | — | 6.4% |
| California average | — | 44 | 15.8% | 35.7% | — | 3.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 56 | 79 | #440 | 25.0% | 67.9% | 22.5% | 2.2% | — |
| 2023 | 62 | 88 | #267 | 43.4% | 66.3% | 20.5% | 2.0% | — |
| 2024 | 57 | 80 | #422 | 32.5% | 59.2% | 17.9% | 1.9% | — |
| 2025 | 56 | 77 | #498 | 30.4% | 60.9% | 24.2% | 1.5% | — |
- — Subgroup results are suppressed for small student counts (fewer than 15 tested), following CDE privacy rules.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | — | 20.5% | — |
| Male | — | 17.9% | — |
| Asian | — | 14.3% | — |
| Hispanic/Latino | — | 16.7% | — |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | — | 23.7% | — |
| All Students | — | 19.4% | — |
| Year | Applied | Admitted | Enrolled | GPA (applied) | GPA (admitted) | GPA (enrolled) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 3.56 | 3.72 | — |
| 2024 | 18 | 11 | 4 | 3.61 | 3.80 | — |
| 2023 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3.93 | — | — |
‹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 | 2025 | 9 | ‹3 | ‹3 |
| Berkeley | 2024 | 15 | ‹3 | ‹3 |
| Berkeley | 2023 | 6 | ‹3 | ‹3 |
| Davis | 2025 | 11 | 5 | ‹3 |
| Davis | 2024 | 14 | 3 | ‹3 |
| Davis | 2023 | 6 | ‹3 | ‹3 |
| Irvine | 2025 | 9 | ‹3 | ‹3 |
| Irvine | 2024 | 9 | ‹3 | ‹3 |
| Irvine | 2023 | 5 | ‹3 | ‹3 |
| Los Angeles | 2025 | 8 | ‹3 | ‹3 |
| Los Angeles | 2024 | 12 | ‹3 | ‹3 |
| Los Angeles | 2023 | 6 | ‹3 | ‹3 |
| Merced | 2025 | 8 | 6 | ‹3 |
| Merced | 2024 | 9 | 8 | ‹3 |
| San Diego | 2025 | 9 | ‹3 | ‹3 |
| San Diego | 2024 | 9 | ‹3 | ‹3 |
| San Diego | 2023 | 6 | ‹3 | ‹3 |
| Santa Barbara | 2024 | 5 | ‹3 | ‹3 |
| Santa Cruz | 2025 | 5 | ‹3 | ‹3 |
| Santa Cruz | 2024 | 14 | 5 | ‹3 |
| Santa Cruz | 2023 | 6 | 4 | ‹3 |
| Universitywide | 2025 | 12 | 9 | 3 |
| Universitywide | 2024 | 18 | 11 | 4 |
| Universitywide | 2023 | 7 | 4 | 3 |
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.
| Destination | Completers | % (derived) |
|---|---|---|
| University of California | 2 | 11.1% |
| California State University | 2 | 11.1% |
| California community college | 11 | 61.1% |
| In-state private | 1 | 5.6% |
| Out-of-state, 4-year | 1 | 5.6% |
| Out-of-state, 2-year | 0 | 0.0% |
| Not enrolled | 1 | 5.6% |
18 completers, class of 2023 · state-reported college-going rate 94% · % 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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