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How has Mesa View Middle changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
817
Middle
DISTRICT 661 · STATE 659
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·OCEAN VIEW·NCES 062814004340
Mesa View Middle
17601 Avilla Ln., Huntington Beach, CA 92647 · (714) 842-6608 · Orange County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL817 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 85% of California public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- DThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public middle schools
Student : Teacher
23.1:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.5:1 · STATE 20.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
45%
371 students
DISTRICT 60% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 251 | 31% |
| Grade 7 | 311 | 38% |
| Grade 8 | 255 | 31% |
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
69.0%
CA avg 49.1% . +0.0pp since 2014
Math
62.4%
CA avg 37.7% . -0.6pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2014, while math scores have held steady.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 36.3% | 32.7% | 16.4% | 14.5% |
| Math | 48.0% | 14.4% | 17.4% | 20.2% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 69.0% | 62.4% |
| 2023-24 | 74.4% | 66.6% |
| 2022-23 | 75.8% | 64.6% |
| 2021-22 | 75.8% | 62.6% |
| 2018-19 | 76.7% | 68.6% |
| 2017-18 | 76.8% | 70.5% |
| 2016-17 | 77.4% | 72.0% |
| 2015-16 | 72.0% | 66.0% |
| 2014-15 | 69.0% | 63.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
68.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.9%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 68% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 53% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 15 points, placing it in California's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Mesa View Middle
Mesa View Middle's state test result (68.2% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mesa View Middle this school | 817 | 45.4% | 68.2% |
| Standley Middle San Diego | 813 | 43.3% | 65.5% |
| Orange County School of Computer Science Yorba Linda | 753 | 42.5% | 52.9% |
| Valley View Middle Pleasant Hill | 819 | 49.7% | 46.1% |
| Serrano Intermediate Lake Forest | 868 | 48.7% | 52.9% |
| James L. Day Middle Temecula | 932 | 42.0% | 55.9% |
Matched among California middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Mesa View Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 68.2% | #142 of 1,224 | #22 of 85 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.4% | #158 of 1,227 ▼ 56 | #25 of 85 ▼ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.0% | #196 of 1,227 ▼ 76 | #33 of 85 ▼ 13 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.5pp | #130 of 1,214 | #6 of 84 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 817 | #413 of 1,377 | #35 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 23.1:1 | #985 of 1,279 | #58 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.5% | #96 of 1,278 | #7 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 45.4% | #986 of 1,329 | #53 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.5% | #243 of 257 | #9 of 9 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
817
-35 (-4%) vs 2020
+33% since 1990-91, when it was 616
Student : Teacher
23.1:1
was 25.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 817 | 35.3 | 23.1:1 | 45% (371) |
| 2023-24 | 693 | 29.4 | 23.6:1 | 44% (303) |
| 2022-23 | 738 | 31.3 | 23.6:1 | 43% (316) |
| 2020-21 | 852 | 34 | 25.1:1 | 39% (329) |
| 2017-18 | 813 | 32.8 | 24.8:1 | 31% (254) |
| 2015-16 | 821 | 33 | 24.9:1 | 24% (201) |
| 2010-11 | 741 | N/A | N/A | 26% (190) |
| 2000-01 | 712 | 32 | 22.3:1 | 22% (156) |
| 1990-91 | 616 | 27 | 22.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mesa View Middle.
Since 2017-18: students unchanged (813 to 817); teachers up 8% (32.8 to 35.3).
About Mesa View Middle
In Huntington Beach, California, part of Orange County, Mesa View Middle is a middle-grades school. The school runs grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 817 students. Middle schools in California average about 659 students, which makes this school 24% larger than average.
Mesa View Middle is one school in a 14-school district, Ocean View, which enrolls 7,018 students.
White students account for 35% of enrollment at Mesa View Middle, more than any other group. Smaller groups are 35% Hispanic, 16% Asian, and 12% multiracial. The diversity index for Mesa View Middle is 71%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
A staff of 35.3 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 23.1:1. The average for middle schools in California, 20.7:1, is lower. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 45%. Among public schools in Orange County, the average eligibility rate is 55%.
On the allk12 Grade, Mesa View Middle lands at A, ahead of 85% of California public middle schools.
Schools in California with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to post an average proficiency rate across its state test results near 52.9%. Mesa View Middle posts 68.2%, 15.2 points above that, which places it in the top 10% statewide on BeatsExpectations.
The school is in Orange County, where the median household earns about $116,289 a year, about 44% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Across Orange County, 649 public schools serve about 430,458 students.
Golden View Elementary is the nearest public school to Mesa View Middle, about 0.3 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The nearest schools with test data average 43.0%, lower than Mesa View Middle's 68.2%.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 817, compared with 852 in 2020-21. Students per teacher dropped from 25.1 in 2020-21 to 23.1 in 2024-25.
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Orange County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
3,165,820
Census ACS
Median income
$116,289
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
44%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
649
430,458 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Ocean View
- Marine View MiddleMiddle · 736 students
- Vista View MiddleMiddle · 724 students
- Harbour View ElementaryElementary · 677 students
- Circle View ElementaryElementary · 582 students
- Hope View ElementaryElementary · 546 students
- Oak View ElementaryElementary · 458 students
Other schools in Huntington Beach
- Huntington Beach HighHigh · 2,645 students
- Edison HighHigh · 2,049 students
- Marina HighHigh · 1,997 students
- Ocean View HighHigh · 1,154 students
- Helen Stacey MiddleMiddle · 947 students
- Ethel Dwyer MiddleMiddle · 884 students
Other Mesa View Middle schools
2 other US public schools in 2 states are named Mesa View Middle. Mesa View Middle is the largest of the 3.
- Mesa View MiddleCalimesa, CA · 717 students
- MESA VIEW MIDDLE SCHOOLFARMINGTON, NM · 461 students
Nearby schools
- Golden View Elementary0.3 mi · 346
- Hope View Elementary0.4 mi · 546
- Coast High0.8 mi · 159
- Ocean View High0.8 mi · 1,154
- Marine View Middle1.0 mi · 736
- Spring View Middle1.0 mi · 366
Frequently asked questions
About Mesa View MiddleWhat is the total enrollment at Mesa View Middle?
Mesa View Middle enrolls approximately 817 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Mesa View Middle serve?
Mesa View Middle serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Mesa View Middle?
Approximately 23.1:1 students per teacher at Mesa View Middle.
What is the student diversity at Mesa View Middle?
Student demographics at Mesa View Middle are roughly 35% White, 35% Hispanic, 1% Black, 16% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Who oversees Mesa View Middle?
Mesa View Middle is overseen by Ocean View in Orange County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.