Mira Monte High · BakersfieldPublic

Mira Monte High: No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.

Mira Monte posts 20% meeting the standard and 5.7% exceeding it, against 36% and 15.8% statewide. The gaps and the bright spots below are the real read.

1800 South Fairfax Road, 93307·Kern High·Bakersfield·Grades 9-12·2,048 students·95% low-income·2024–25 CAASPP·(661) 366-1800·Website

2019–2025 trend · CDE CAASPP

	Scope	% Exceeded	% Met+	Grad rate	College readiness	Absence	Suspension
This school	38	6%	20%	85.6%	43.1%	18.3%	11.3%
CA average · High School	47	16%	36%	86.6%	33.9%	30.2%	3.6%

This schoolCA avg

Scope3847

% Exceeded6%16%

% Met+20%36%

Grad rate85.6%86.6%

College readiness43.1%33.9%

Absence18.3%30.2%

Suspension11.3%3.6%

Scope Score

🌱 Building Momentum · Developing

ranked #1,508 statewide · #17 of 25 in Kern High

Mira Monte High scores 38 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 30th 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.

CDE CAASPP 2025

Most rating sites would stop at “20% proficient” and call it done. Mira Monte deserves a closer read. The school sits in Bakersfield, where four in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.

The seven-year arc

Percentile among 2,160 high schools statewide

Has stayed near the 30th percentile since 2019.

CA Dashboard

ELARed(Declined)MathOrange(Increased)

Proficiency here is back to its pre-pandemic level — 20% meet the standard, about where the school stood in 2019.

ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade

Grade	2019	2022	2023	2024	2025
Grade 11	36%	34%	33%	33%	33%

Math — % met or exceeded, by grade

Grade	2019	2022	2023	2024	2025
Grade 11	8%	8%	6%	4%	6%

The story this school is actually telling

Proficient by 11th grade

20%

State 36%

Graduate

86%

State 87%

Pass an AP exam

43%

State 34%

Of 100 students here: 20 are proficient by 11th grade → 86 graduate → 43 pass an AP exam. The gaps between those bars are the questions to ask.

The 7 things our score weighs

Graduation rate

85.6%

State 86.6%

1.0pp below state avg

Exceeded standard

5.7%

State 15.8%

10.1pp below state avg

College readiness

43.1%

State 33.9%

AP course or exam readiness above state avg

Met or exceeded

19.6%

State 35.7%

16.1pp below state avg

Chronic absenteeism

18.3%

State 30.2%

11.9pp below state avg

Suspension rate

11.3%

State 3.6%

7.6pp above state avg

EL proficiency (ELPAC)

8.2%

State 18.0%

9.8pp below state avg

Worth a school visit

Ask what the school is working on next. Strong numbers tell you where a school is, not where it's going.

Ask what typically leads to a suspension, and what happens before it gets there.
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

All students at this school: 20% met or exceeded

All Students20%

Socioeconomically Disadvantaged19% · −1 vs school

Hispanic/Latino20% · +0 vs school

Male17% · −3 vs school

Female24% · +4 vs school

English Learners3% · −16 vs school

Students with Disabilities1% · −19 vs school

White5% · −15 vs school

Black/African American36% · +17 vs school

5 of 14 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.

this school district, same group California, same group

AP access · 2020-21 federal civil rights snapshot (structural, dated — newest published; biennial)

Shown, never scored

Hispanic95.5% AP · 90.5% enroll.

American Indian/Alaska Native0.0% AP · 0.2% enroll.

Asian2.0% AP · 1.0% enroll.

Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander0.0% AP · 0.1% enroll.

Black0.7% AP · 5.2% enroll.

White1.6% AP · 2.6% enroll.

Two or more races0.2% AP · 0.4% enroll.

English learners0.9% AP · 12.5% enroll.

Students with disabilities0.2% AP · 13.6% enroll.

● share of AP enrollment vs share of total enrollment, this school only · not part of the Scope Score

Data source: U.S. Dept. of Education Office for Civil Rights, Civil Rights Data Collection, 2020-21 (biennial; newest published)

Showing up, and staying in class

Chronic absenteeism18.3% · −11.9pp vs state

Suspension rate11.3% · +7.6pp vs state

Chronic absenteeism by grade band

Grades 9–1217.9%

Where graduates go

Context — never part of the Scope Score

50%

College-going rate, class of 2023

Where they went after graduation

Of Mira Monte's class of 2023, 50% enrolled in college somewhere within a year — a CSU, a community college, a UC, or out of state.

College destination mix, class of 2023

Class of 2023: 520 completers, 50% enrolled somewhere within a year

15%

25%

50%

University of California 21 (4%)California State University 76 (15%)California community college 131 (25%)In-state private 25 (5%)Out-of-state, 4-year 2 (0%)Out-of-state, 2-year 7 (1%)Not enrolled 258 (50%)

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.

UC application funnel — one destination of six, tracked in detail because UC is the only source with 30 years of history

In fall 2025, 13 of Mira Monte's 368 graduates enrolled in the University of California system — Santa Barbara the most common landing, with 4 enrollees.

Applied56fall 2025, universitywide

Admitted46

Enrolled13

Where they landed (fall 2025)

7 of 9 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 enrollees, universitywide, 2014–2025

Peak: 21 enrolled, 2023

UC publishes this trend back to 1994 — no other destination has a comparable multi-year record

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, 50% of this class's predecessors enrolled in college somewhere within a year. More of the class of 2023 enrolled at community colleges (131) than at UC (21).

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

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Student : teacher24:1

Teaching staff177 teachers

Avg. experience10.8 years

Fully credentialed81%

First-year teachers3%

Intern / emergency permit3.7%

Salary Schedule

Teacher salary schedule$62,889 – $134,832

Principal salaryUp to $173,913

Superintendent salary$255,200

Pay is set by the district, not the school.

Course Breadth

AP exam qualifiers72 studentsCCI, participation not authorization

CTE pathway completers59 students

Advanced Coursework

Mira Monte's teachers are authorized to teach 1 of the 40 AP subjects the College Board offers — including Biology.

AP subjects taught1

Sciences (1)Biology

Data source: College Board AP Course Audit, 2025 - 2026 audit year (authorization, not enrollment) · IB World Schools directory, name-matched · structural depth: 2020-21 federal snapshot, table 09

What gets spent here

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Per-pupil spending$22,456 · spent at this school

Federal share$1,162 per student

$1,162 per student arrives as federal Title funding — a measure of concentrated need, not school quality.

District current expense · FY 2024–25$20,278 per student

The district's current expense of education per student, from CDE's annual SACS filing — the freshest district spending figure the state publishes.

Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS

Instruction48%

Instruction support16%

Student services15%

Administration6%

Buildings & maintenance13%

Other2%

District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.

district detail, 2016–2020 — the newest published

2020$13,940 per pupil

2019$13,737 per pupil

2018$14,008 per pupil

2017$12,847 per pupil

2016$12,132 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

The neighborhood it serves

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Hispanic90.8%

District 71.9% · CA 56.1%

Black3.4%

District 5.0% · CA 4.8%

White2.9%

District 14.2% · CA 19.9%

Other2.4%

District 6.3% · CA 9.0%

Asian0.5%

District 2.5% · CA 10.2%

Low IncomeFree/reduced lunch eligible 94.7% (31pp above CA avg)

Neighborhood — American Community Survey

Median income$56K · CA $85K

Median home value$272K · CA $659K

Bachelor's degree+8% · CA 35%

ZIP population85,945

Median age28 years

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level

Worth Knowing

On the state's science test (CAST), 13% 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

Is Mira Monte High a good high school?

Mira Monte High has a Scope Score of 38 out of 100, placing it in the 30th percentile of California high schools and ranked #1,508 statewide. 5.7% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is 10.1 percentage points below the California average of 15.8%. The Scope Score weights 7 dimensions for high schools: graduation rate (25%), exceeded standard (22%), college/career readiness (20%), met or exceeded (proficient) (18%), 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 Mira Monte High's CAASPP test scores?

On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 19.6% of students at Mira Monte High met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 5.7% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 13.9% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 5.7% pushed past it. Most rating sites report only the combined "proficient" number. SchoolScope surfaces the exceeded-vs-met split because it reveals whether a school's curriculum challenges students beyond minimum proficiency or paces toward it. 970 student-subject combinations were assessed.

How does Mira Monte High rank in California?

Mira Monte High ranks #1,508 among California high schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 30th percentile. This ranking is based on a weighted composite of 2025 CAASPP test performance (exceeded and met rates), 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.

What is the attendance and school culture like at Mira Monte High?

18.3% of students at Mira Monte High are chronically absent (missing 10% or more of school days), which is better than the California average of 30.2%. The suspension rate is 11.3%. 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 Mira Monte High compare to other schools in Bakersfield?

Mira Monte High scores 38/100 (30th percentile) among California high 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 2,048 students. Use the schools in Bakersfield page or the map view to compare all high schools nearby.

How does Mira Monte High serve low-income and underrepresented students?

At Mira Monte High in Bakersfield, 32.3% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 47.2% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Mira Monte High trails its district average for low-income students by 14.9 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (5.7% Math proficient); Hispanic students (33.3% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 30.8 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 452 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.

What AP courses are offered at Mira Monte High?

Mira Monte High's teachers are authorized to teach 1 of the 40 AP subjects the College Board offers, per the 2025 - 2026 AP Course Audit: Biology. Authorization means the school may teach a course, not that a section is running this year, and it's separate from AP exam pass rates. Data source: College Board AP Course Audit, analyzed by SchoolScope.

How many students from Mira Monte High go to UC?

In fall 2025, 13 Mira Monte High graduates enrolled at University of California campuses, universitywide. That figure can't be split into a per-campus sum — students apply to several UC campuses at once, so campus-level counts don't add up to the universitywide total. UC is one destination among many: this says nothing about graduates who chose a CSU, a private college, a community college, or work, and it is a count, not a rate or a ranking. Data source: University of California Office of the President (UC Information Center), fall 2025 admissions cycle.

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For the data nerds

Every number on this page

Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and nearest schools.

01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25

Graduation rate · 25%

85.6%

↓ vs CA 86.6% · 49th pctile

Exceeded standard · 22%

5.7%

↓ vs CA 15.8% · 39th pctile

College readiness · 20%

43.1%

↑ vs CA 33.9% · 55th pctile

Met or exceeded · 18%

19.6%

↓ vs CA 35.7% · 38th pctile

Chronic absenteeism · 5%

18.3%

↑ vs CA 30.2% · 60th pctile

▲ 1.1pp higher vs 2024

Suspension rate · 5%

11.3%

↓ vs CA 3.6% · 16th pctile

▼ 3.0pp lower vs 2024

EL proficiency (ELPAC) · 5%

8.2%

↓ vs CA 18.0% · 37th pctile

02By grade & subgroupCAASPP 2024–25 · % of tested students

ELA	Tested	EXC	MET	NEAR	NOT	MET+	+/CA
Grade 11	491	10%	23%	29%	38%	33%	−16

Math	Tested	EXC	MET	NEAR	NOT	MET+	+/CA
Grade 11	479	2%	5%	17%	77%	6%	−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	492	2%	12%	70%	17%

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	452	32.3%	−15	−6
Hispanic/Latino	450	33.3%	−15	−6
English Learners	89	4.5%	−3	−6

03Nearest high schoolssorted by Scope Score · Grade gap = grade 3 vs grade 5, this year, different students; Cohort growth = the same students tracked across grades, in scale-score points — that's the measurement the Scope Score weights

School	Dist	Scope	EXC	MET+	Grade gap	Cohort growth	Susp
Mira Monte High ←	—	38	5.7%	19.6%	—	—	11.3%
Foothill High	2 mi	45	9.9%	31.0%	—	—	9.7%
California average	—	47	15.8%	35.7%	—	—	3.6%

04More measurescontext · not all part of the Scope Score

Graduation Rate

85.6%

AP Exam Prepared

43.1%

A-G Completion

40.8%

A-G are the 15 courses (across 7 subjects) required for UC/CSU eligibility

College-Going Rate

50.4%

Year	Scope	Pctile	Rank	Exc	Met+	Absent	Susp	Grade gap
2019	40	35	#1321	5.2%	22.2%	14.8%	10.8%	—
2022	38	32	#1428	6.4%	20.7%	33.1%	12.7%	—
2023	38	31	#1495	4.4%	19.5%	19.7%	16.4%	—
2024	37	31	#1483	4.5%	18.1%	17.3%	14.3%	—
2025	38	30	#1508	5.7%	19.6%	18.3%	11.3%	—

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.

NO STATEWIDE TESTING 2020–21 (COVID) · SCORE AND PERCENTILE ARE RELATIVE TO EACH YEAR'S FIELD

05Climate by student groupchronic absenteeism · 2019 vs 2025 — the two years CDE publishes at subgroup level

Group	2019	2025	Δ
Female	17.1%	21.2%	+4.1pp
Male	12.0%	15.0%	+3.0pp
Asian	8.3%	18.2%	+9.9pp
Black/African American	23.2%	29.7%	+6.5pp
Hispanic/Latino	13.7%	17.3%	+3.6pp
Students with Disabilities	22.3%	25.2%	+2.9pp
English Learners	15.5%	20.3%	+4.8pp
Foster Youth	50.0%	26.3%	-23.7pp
Homeless	27.3%	35.0%	+7.7pp
Military-Connected	11.3%	13.0%	+1.7pp
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged	14.6%	18.2%	+3.6pp
All Students	14.5%	17.9%	+3.4pp
Filipino	—	18.5%	—
Two or More Races	—	8.3%	—

06UC admissions, universitywide2014–2025 · summed across CEEB codes at query time

Year	Applied	Admitted	Enrolled	GPA (applied)	GPA (admitted)	GPA (enrolled)
2025	56	46	13	3.62	3.71	3.89
2024	81	61	18	3.69	3.79	3.83
2023	71	54	21	3.72	3.85	4.00
2022	95	60	15	3.66	3.85	4.07
2021	72	44	13	3.56	3.78	3.90
2020	45	34	6	3.69	3.79	3.96
2019	40	29	13	3.74	3.93	3.97
2018	72	29	11	3.53	3.86	4.03
2017	49	24	18	3.64	4.00	4.04
2016	55	34	18	3.58	3.87	3.92
2015	46	30	14	3.77	3.95	4.02
2014	45	29	18	3.63	3.90	4.03

‹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.

07UC admissions by campuslatest falls on file

Campus	Year	Applied	Admitted	Enrolled
Berkeley	2025	24	3	‹3
Berkeley	2024	40	‹3	‹3
Berkeley	2023	31	7	‹3
Berkeley	2022	33	‹3	‹3
Berkeley	2021	30	‹3	‹3
Davis	2025	20	7	‹3
Davis	2024	34	13	‹3
Davis	2023	31	15	‹3
Davis	2022	30	12	6
Davis	2021	38	8	‹3
Irvine	2025	21	5	‹3
Irvine	2024	42	8	‹3
Irvine	2023	33	4	‹3
Irvine	2022	43	‹3	‹3
Irvine	2021	30	‹3	‹3
Los Angeles	2025	31	3	3
Los Angeles	2024	45	‹3	‹3
Los Angeles	2023	40	5	4
Los Angeles	2022	55	3	3
Los Angeles	2021	40	‹3	‹3
Merced	2025	33	31	‹3
Merced	2024	33	33	6
Merced	2023	30	29	5
Merced	2022	39	35	‹3
Merced	2021	32	26	3
Riverside	2025	19	18	‹3
Riverside	2024	15	8	‹3
Riverside	2023	14	8	‹3
Riverside	2022	28	10	‹3
Riverside	2021	19	5	‹3
San Diego	2025	27	11	‹3
San Diego	2024	42	19	4
San Diego	2023	28	18	‹3
San Diego	2022	45	15	‹3
San Diego	2021	38	8	‹3
Santa Barbara	2025	31	16	4
Santa Barbara	2024	26	17	‹3
Santa Barbara	2023	31	15	4
Santa Barbara	2022	61	15	‹3
Santa Barbara	2021	28	14	‹3
Santa Cruz	2025	23	14	‹3
Santa Cruz	2024	26	20	‹3
Santa Cruz	2023	26	10	‹3
Santa Cruz	2022	39	3	‹3
Santa Cruz	2021	19	10	‹3
Universitywide	2025	56	46	13
Universitywide	2024	81	61	18
Universitywide	2023	71	54	21
Universitywide	2022	95	60	15
Universitywide	2021	72	44	13

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.

08AP course catalog2025 - 2026

Subject	Taught by
Biology	this school

Authorization ≠ a section running this year — the Ledger records what the school may teach, not seat counts.

09Advanced coursework — 2020-21 federal civil-rights snapshotstructural, dated — newest published; biennial

Measure	This school
AP offered	offered
AP course count	12
AP enrollment	555
IB participation	not offered
Dual enrollment	offered · 331 enrolled
Algebra I in grade 8	not reported
Calculus sections	1
Physics sections	6
Chemistry sections	13
Total enrollment (CRDC)	2,776

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.

10College destinationsclass of 2023 · CDE 12-mo College-Going Rate

Destination	Completers	% (derived)
University of California	21	4.0%
California State University	76	14.6%
California community college	131	25.2%
In-state private	25	4.8%
Out-of-state, 4-year	2	0.4%
Out-of-state, 2-year	7	1.4%
Not enrolled	258	49.6%

520 completers, class of 2023 · state-reported college-going rate 50% · % 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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