Best High Schools in Zip Code 92069

ZIP code 92069 has four high schools: Mission Hills High and Twin Oaks High serve grades 9–12, while San Diego Mission Academy and Foothills High serve grades 6–12. In 2025–2026, their unweighted average proficiency was 37% in ELA, 22% in math and 26% in science among the three schools with reported science scores; the corresponding state results were 49%, 38% and 36%. The clearest area-wide concern is math: the schools’ average was 16 percentage points below the state, the largest average gap among the reported subjects.

Mission Hills High stands out in ELA and reported science, scoring 61% in ELA—23 points above the next-highest school, Foothills High at 38%—and 49% in science, 25 points above the next reported result. San Diego Mission Academy leads in math at 38%, close to the state’s 38%; Twin Oaks High is lowest in all three reported subjects, with 11% in ELA, 3% in math and 5% in science. Mission Hills also reports a 95% graduation rate, above the state’s 88%, and a 3% dropout rate, below the state’s 8%.

Math results improved overall: the four-school average rose from 16% in 2024–2025 to 22% in 2025–2026, narrowing the average gap to the state from 21 to 16 points. ELA’s average edged up from 36% to 37%, while science’s three-school average rose from 22% to 26%. SchoolDigger rankings also distinguish the schools: Mission Hills ranked in the 69th–74th percentiles across the years shown, compared with the 7th–10th percentiles for Twin Oaks; San Diego Mission Academy rose from the 43rd percentile in 2023–2024 to the 63rd in 2025–2026. All four schools reported free/reduced lunch eligible figures for 2024–2025, ranging from 45% at Mission Hills to 68% at San Diego Mission Academy; these figures are context, not an explanation for results. Twin Oaks has the lowest student-teacher ratio at 10.0 but the weakest reported scores, while Mission Hills has the highest ratio at 24.7 and strong ELA and science results. Grade spans differ, and Foothills’ current all-grades science score is suppressed, so some comparisons are limited.