San Diego Unified

San Diego Unified includes 174 schools—119 elementary, 24 middle, 25 high and six alternative schools—serving students from elementary through high-school grades across the San Diego area. The supplied records are not a complete districtwide sample, and all-grades results are not fully comparable across different grade spans. The clearest takeaway is how uneven the results are: the schools’ all-grades proficiency spans 85 percentage points in ELA, 88 in math and 77 in science.

Among listed traditional high schools, Scripps Ranch High stands out: its 11th graders scored 87% in ELA, 74% in math and 75% in science, respectively 30, 42 and 37 percentage points above state results. At the other end, Garfield High scored 4% in ELA, 0% in math and 6% in science—53, 32 and 33 points below state results. Among elementary schools, Scripps Elementary reached 85% in ELA, 86% in math and 76% in science, while Porter Elementary scored 20%, 13% and 7%. SchoolDigger ranked Scripps Ranch High 39th of 2,137 California high schools and gave it five stars; it ranked Scripps Elementary 70th of 5,804 elementary schools, also with five stars.

Results over time were mixed: across nine listed traditional high schools, the unweighted average changed by about −1 percentage point in ELA, essentially no change in math and +3 points in science from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026. Mira Mesa High improved by 8, 4 and 14 points in those subjects, while Point Loma High declined by 10, 9 and 10. Income figures provide context, not a verdict: in 2024–2025, the free/reduced lunch eligible share was 20% at Scripps Ranch High and 89% at Hoover High; Mira Mesa was 57% and had stronger results than Hoover. Size and student-teacher ratio also don’t neatly predict results: Scripps Ranch High had a ratio of 27.0, compared with 22.9 at Hoover, despite their markedly different scores.