Summary
Burlingame High is a public high school in Burlingame, California, serving 1,583 students in grades 9–12 in the San Mateo Union High district. In 2025–2026, SchoolDigger ranked it 127th of 2,137 California schools, at the 94th percentile with five stars. Its graduation rate was 98%, higher than the district’s 95% and the state’s 88%. The most important finding is that Burlingame’s test results were well above state and district levels, although it ranked third among six nearby comprehensive high schools in each tested subject.
Math is Burlingame’s strongest subject against local benchmarks: proficiency was 61%, 10 points above the district and 12 points above the average for nearby comprehensive peers. ELA was 76%—7 points above the district and 8 above the nearby-peer average—while science was 57%, 6 points above the district and 8 above that peer average. Compared with the state, Burlingame was ahead by 27 points in ELA, 23 in math and 21 in science, making science its smallest advantage against broad benchmarks. Aragon High and Mills High scored higher than Burlingame in all three subjects. Chronic absenteeism was 10%, below the state’s 18% and district’s 14%, but above Aragon’s 7% and Mills’s 9%.
Scores and rankings have eased over time: from 2022–2023 to 2025–2026, proficiency fell 10 points in ELA, 4 in math and 7 in science, while the school’s SchoolDigger percentile declined from 98 to 94. The state improved over that period, narrowing Burlingame’s lead. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking for Asian students was at the 72nd percentile in 2025–2026, down from 95 in 2023–2024 and below the school’s overall 94th percentile. Its ranking for Hispanic students was at the 74th percentile, down from 97 and 20 points below the overall ranking. These rankings offer a reason to ask how well the school is serving these groups relative to peers. As context, the 2024–2025 student-teacher ratio was 19.6, and 13% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible—the lowest share among nearby schools reporting the same measure and year.
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