Summary
Mesa View Middle serves 817 students in grades 6–8 in Huntington Beach, a coastal Orange County community, and is part of the Ocean View district. Its most important strength is broad achievement: in 2025–26, proficiency was 68% in English language arts (ELA), 64% in math, and 61% in science—above district rates by 11, 14, and 12 points, respectively, and above state rates by 18, 26, and 25 points.
Compared with nearby schools serving grades 6–8, Mesa View stands out more in math and science than in ELA. It scored 7 points above the nearby-school average in both math and science, ranking fifth and fourth among 10 comparable schools; in ELA, it was just 1 point above average and ranked sixth. Its two nearby Ocean View peers, Vista View Middle and Marine View Middle, were below Mesa View in all three subjects. This makes the school’s math and science results its clearest local advantages, even as it performs strongly against both district and state benchmarks.
Results have softened from their earlier highs: between 2022–23 and 2025–26, ELA proficiency fell 8 points and science fell 10, while math was essentially flat. Even so, Mesa View remains well above the state, and SchoolDigger rated it in the 90th percentile with five stars in 2025–26; five nearby schools had higher percentiles. Its 2024–25 student-teacher ratio was 23.1, close to the nearby average of 23.2, and 45% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. SchoolDigger’s statewide effectiveness percentile for English Language Learner Students fell to 31 in 2023–24, compared with 94 overall, a 37-point drop from the group’s prior-year percentile; no later group ranking is supplied. For Special Education Students, the percentile was 72 in 2025–26 versus 90 overall, down from 91 in 2023–24.
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