Summary:
The High Technical Middle Mesa District list covers one California school, High Technical Middle Mesa, serving grades 6–8 with 352 students. In 2025–2026, the school’s proficiency was above California’s in ELA, math, and science, with the clearest advantage in ELA: 60% proficient versus 49% statewide, an 11-point lead.
High Technical Middle Mesa is the only school in this list, so there is no school-to-school top or bottom comparison. Against state results, its strongest subject advantages were ELA, 11 points, and math, 10 points; its science lead was smaller at 3 points (39% proficient versus 36%). Results were above state rates in every reported ELA and math grade. Eighth-grade ELA was the school’s highest grade-level result at 63%, while sixth-grade math was highest in math at 51%; seventh grade was the softer spot in both subjects.
Results improved across all three subjects from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: proficiency rose by 8 points in ELA, 8 in math, and 13 in science. The equal-weight average across the three subjects increased by 10 points, compared with a 2-point increase for California. SchoolDigger rated the school four stars and at the 78th percentile in 2025–2026, up 11 percentile points from the prior year’s 67th percentile. Attendance is another favorable measure: chronic absenteeism was 7% at the school versus 18% statewide, an 11-point difference. As context, 41% of students were reported as free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025; the school’s student–teacher ratio was 14.5, and spending was $23,422 per student that year.
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