Montgomery Senior High

Montgomery Senior High is one of the large secondary schools in San Diego, California, part of Sweetwater Union High, with 1,568 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Montgomery Senior High sits 87% bigger than that benchmark.

Sweetwater Union High comprises 28 schools with combined enrollment of 33,517 students; Montgomery Senior High is among them.

Looking at the student body, Montgomery Senior High reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (80%). Other groups include 8% White, 6% Asian, 3% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, San Diego County as a whole is about 35% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 81% of students at Montgomery Senior High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against San Diego County (around 54%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Montgomery Senior High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.4%; this one delivers 39.1%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for San Diego County indicate median household income runs about $106,268, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, San Diego County runs 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), of which Montgomery Senior High is one.

The closest other public school is Options Secondary, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Montgomery Senior High ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 29.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Montgomery Senior High has decreased 13%, going from 1,812 students in 2018 to 1,568 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked up from 1% to 8% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 24.8:1 in 2018 to 21.8:1 today.

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