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High Tech Middle

· San Diego County · San Diego Unified · Public

Public San Diego County 🏛 San Diego Unified → CDS 3768338…
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Programs & features
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Academic signals
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Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How High Tech Middle compares for families

What families should know about High Tech Middle.

  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: High Tech Middle Media Arts, High Tech High Media Arts, High Tech High International and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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Chronic absenteeism — 2024-25

Share of students missing 10% or more of expected attendance — the leading indicator that often precedes the demand decline shown above. Families disengaging tend to raise absenteeism first, then formally leave. Basis: total enrollment.

Chronic absent
20.1%
67 of 333 students

Absenteeism is up 12.4 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

San Diego County median
18.9% · school is worse than 54% of 205 HS
Statewide median
20.9%
Chronic absenteeism by year (raw %)

Source: California Department of Education, Chronic Absenteeism 2024-25. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥100 eligible students. CDE didn't publish a usable 2019-20 file (COVID).

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment
322 (2018)321 (2026)
-0.3%

If this trend holds (-0.1%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~321 +0 $0
3 yr (2029) ~320 -1 $0
5 yr (2031) ~320 -1 $0

Straight-line extrapolation of the recent annual rate — a what-if, not a forecast of intent. Default = California's LCFF base grant for grades 9–12 ($12,423/ADA). Edit the figure to match your school.

High Tech Middle — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • We don't yet have enough UC-outcome or enrollment history for High Tech Middle to build a full trend — but its similar-school comparison is below.

Enrollment projection

321 students (2026)
~321 projected (2029)
at -0.0%/yr

Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools

School Type Size UC Reach Enroll. trend
High Tech Middle Public 321
Peer-group median 19.2% -8%
High Tech Middle Media Arts Public 328
High Tech High Media Arts Public 346 36.7% -6%
High Tech High International Public 348 19.3% -13%
High Tech High School Public 394 41.0% -18%
Urban Discovery Academy Charter Public 310 -33%
High Tech Elementary Explorer Public 403
E3 Civic High Public 344 10.5% -7%
Kearny College Connections Public 319 19.1% -8%
Kearny Digital Media & Design Public 335 15.7% +2%
High Tech Elementary Public 438

UC Reach = top-6 UC admits ÷ senior class (can exceed 100% when students are admitted to multiple campuses). Enrollment trend = first-to-latest grade-12 change on file. Similar schools matched on proximity, size, type. Methodology →

Enrollment stability & demand — 2024-25

Two complementary signals: retention (do students stay once enrolled?) and demand (are families choosing the school?). Read against the San Diego County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.

Stability rate
89.0%
307 of 345 students

38 of 345 students who enrolled at High Tech Middle this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (11.0% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

San Diego County median
88.7% · school is in the 53rd percentile of 207 HS
Statewide median
88.7% · in the 52nd percentile of 2,648 HS

Stability by student group

Hispanic / Latino (191) 91.1%
Socio. disadvantaged (165) 89.7%
White (80) 85.0%
Students w/ disabilities (75) 93.3%
Asian (22) 90.9%
Black / African Am. (22) 81.8%

Nearest peer high schools

High Tech Middle Media Arts 92.5% High Tech High Media Arts 87.2% High Tech High International 95.9% High Tech High School 93.6% Urban Discovery Academy Charter 74.1%

Source: California Department of Education, Stability Rate 2024-25. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥100 cumulative enrollees so by-design-high-churn continuation schools don't dominate the bottom of the distribution. Cumulative enrollment counts every student on the rolls during the year, so it can exceed peak-day enrollment.

District financial profile — San Diego Unified (FY2020)

From 4 years of NCES F-33 filings (the federally-mandated district finance survey). Public schools don't have their own books — the district does. These figures show the financial scale, revenue dependence, instruction-vs-overhead mix, and long-term debt that shape what a school can sustain.

Total revenue
$2239.7M
+17.1% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$22,861
97,968 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 24.2%
Local: 65.2%
Federal: 10.6%
Instruction share
58.6%
of current spending · $9,592/pupil
Long-term debt
$5186.5M
+29.3% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($M)
Total expenditure by year ($M)

Source: NCES F-33 Annual Survey of School System Finances (Urban Institute Education Data API). Latest year currently published: FY2020. F-33 is a district-level federal filing — it reflects the San Diego Unified as a whole, not this individual school's books. Revenue mix shows where the district's dollars come from (state aid dominates in CA via LCFF). Instruction share is current expenditure on instruction ÷ total current expenditure (national benchmark ~60%). Long-term debt is end-of-year outstanding (mostly facilities bonds).

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