High · California
Back Bay High
AlternativeFree meals for allBack Bay High, a public high school in Costa Mesa, California: grades 9–12, 143 students, 8.2 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Newport-Mesa Unified.
Size and class size
Compared with high schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 143
- Teachers (FTE)
- 17.5
- Students per teacher
- 8.2
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
Fewer students per teacher than 92% of high schools in California
Median 19.1 · 2,120 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 89% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Smaller than 69% of high schools in California
Median 462 · 2,126 schools compared
Smaller than 76% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
State test results
No state test results published for this school: state tests cover grades 3–8, and small groups are not published.
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 9–12
- Type
- District school · Alternative
- Instruction
- Some virtual classes
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Midsize city
- Run by
- Newport-Mesa Unified
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Newport-Mesa Unified.
Location
- Address
- 390 Monte Vista Ave., Costa Mesa, CA 92627
- Phone
- (949)515-6900
- City or town
- Costa Mesa
- County
- Orange County
Nearby high schools
The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Central Orange County CTE Partnership (CTEp)Career and technical | 10–12 | 0 | — |
Monte Vista Independent StudyAlternative | 7–12 | 48 | 5.5 |
Coastline ROPCareer and technical | 9–12 | 0 | — |
Costa Mesa HighFree meals for all | 7–12 | 1,730 | 19.5 |
| 7–12 | 2,106 | 21.9 | |
| 9–12 | 2,084 | 22.6 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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