# Costa Mesa High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062724004110`
- **School name**: Costa Mesa High
- **Location**: Costa Mesa, CA 92626
- **Address**: 2650 Fairview Rd.
- **District**: Newport-Mesa Unified (LEAID `0627240`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 7–12
- **Coordinates**: 33.67079, -117.90654
- **Phone**: (714)424-8700
- **Website**: https://www.nmusd.us
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5174845 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Mesa_Middle_and_High_School
- **Founded**: 1958

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,730
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 88
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 73.2%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Yellow
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: Orange
  - math: Yellow
  - college_career: Yellow
  - ela: Yellow
  - chronic_absent: Orange
  - graduation: Green

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 47.0% proficient — 839 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 52.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 93.6% (cohort of 282)
- **2021**: 97.0% (cohort of 270)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 51

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 15.2% (95 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 10.0% (167 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.1% (20 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.3% (5 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 75.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.9% — 209 students
- **English Learners**: 18.2% — 321 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 117 students
- **Autism**: 35 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 35 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 11 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 10 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 7 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $25,199
- **Federal share**: $2,037
- **State + local share**: $23,162
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,761
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $25,018,873
- **Federal share**: 7.4%
- **State share**: 17.7%
- **Local share**: 74.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,756,263

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $106,392
- **Poverty rate**: 13.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 39.0%
- **Unemployment**: 5.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,886
- **Foreign-born residents**: 31.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 14.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 10.9 miles (EL TORO MARINE CORPS AIR STATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 170
- **Nearest brownfield**: 6.91 miles (GRIJALVA PARK EXTENSION)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: MESA  WATER DISTRICT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.5122 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 11.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Maude B. Davis Elementary** — 0.3 mi away, 8.1% (this school: 15.2%)
- **Early College High** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 15.2%)
- **Back Bay High** — 1.5 mi away, 8.67% (this school: 15.2%)
- **Adams Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 14.6% (this school: 15.2%)
- **California Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 10.5% (this school: 15.2%)

### ela proficiency
- **Maude B. Davis Elementary** — 0.3 mi away, 70.9% (this school: 49.5%)
- **College Park Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 52.9% (this school: 49.5%)
- **Killybrooke Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 67.45% (this school: 49.5%)
- **Early College High** — 1.4 mi away, 81.3% (this school: 49.5%)
- **Adams Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 65.15% (this school: 49.5%)

### graduation rate
- **Early College High** — 1.4 mi away, 100% (this school: 93.6%)
- **Segerstrom High** — 2.3 mi away, 98.7% (this school: 93.6%)
- **Saddleback High** — 3.1 mi away, 94% (this school: 93.6%)
- **Corona del Mar High** — 3.1 mi away, 97.2% (this school: 93.6%)
- **Newport Harbor High** — 3.3 mi away, 96.6% (this school: 93.6%)

### math proficiency
- **Maude B. Davis Elementary** — 0.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **College Park Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Killybrooke Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Early College High** — 1.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Adams Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/costa-mesa-high-costa-mesa
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/costa-mesa-high-costa-mesa/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/costa-mesa-high-costa-mesa/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/costa-mesa-high-costa-mesa/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/costa-mesa-high-costa-mesa/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/costa-mesa-high-costa-mesa/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/costa-mesa-high-costa-mesa/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/costa-mesa-high-costa-mesa/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/costa-mesa-high-costa-mesa/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/costa-mesa-high-costa-mesa/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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