Summary:
ZIP code 92109 has one listed high school, Mission Bay High, serving grades 9–12 and enrolling 1,240 students. With no other listed school, there is no local school-to-school comparison or top and bottom performer. The central finding is that Mission Bay exceeds California’s all-grades results in ELA, math and science, but its advantage is much smaller in math.
Mission Bay High stands out most in ELA and science: in 2025–26, 74% were proficient in ELA, 25 percentage points above the state, and 59% in science, 23 points above. Math was the school’s weakest subject at 42% proficient—4 points above the state but 4 below the San Diego Unified district. ELA proficiency was 32 points higher than math. Completion and attendance measures were also favorable: graduation was 99%, compared with 92% in the district and 88% statewide; dropout was 0%, and chronic absenteeism was 11%, below both benchmarks.
Test-score results shifted unevenly: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, ELA fell 6 percentage points and math fell 10, while science rose 2. The school remained above the state in every subject, but its state advantage narrowed, especially in math—from 15 points to 4. SchoolDigger ranked Mission Bay 154th of 2,162 schools (93rd percentile, 5 stars) in 2024–25, then 282nd of 2,137 (87th percentile, 4 stars) in 2025–26; it ranked 302nd of 2,159 (86th percentile, 4 stars) in 2023–24. The student–teacher ratio was 20.3 in 2024–25, and 44% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. These figures describe the sole listed school; they cannot show how it compares with another school in the ZIP code.
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