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Mira Costa High

Manhattan Beach Unified · Los Angeles County · 90266. Its University of California and California State University admissions record, set beside what its students scored on the state test — every figure from a public file, with the year and the suppression floor named.
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Selective UC offers, against what its students scored

UC is admitting more than the scores predict — 1.1× the selective-campus offers this school's top scorers predict
391
Selective UC offers
actual, Fall 2025
~345
Selective UC offers
expected from test scores
1.1×
Admitted California Ratio
actual ÷ expected

“Selective” is UCLA, Berkeley, San Diego, Davis, Santa Barbara and Irvine. Offers are counted per campus, so a student admitted to three of them counts three times — which is why this figure is offers, not students, and why it can exceed the size of a graduating class. Expected = 219 students estimated to have exceeded both SBAC standards, times the statewide rate of 1.6 selective offers per top scorer. That student count is the upper bound of a range CDE does not publish exactly — the range is under “State test results” below, and using its top end is the assumption most generous to the school. The ratio is a comparison between this school and the state average. It is not a probability for any one applicant, and nothing on this page can be read as one: the counts behind it are small, and UC masks anything under 3.

University of California, Fall 2025

367
Applied to UC
260
Admitted to any campus
71%
Admit rate, universitywide
100
Enrolled at a UC
CampusAppliedAdmittedAdmit rate
UCLA3153712%
UC Berkeley2714717%
UC San Diego2596023%
UC Davis1836334%
UC Santa Barbara30911437%
UC Irvine2037034%
UC Santa Cruz15712378%
UC Riverside766991%
UC Merced343294%
Freshman admissions, Fall 2025. Campus counts are duplicated — one student admitted to four campuses appears in four rows — so they do not sum to the universitywide total above, which is unduplicated. UC masks any count under 3, and a masked figure is shown here as “fewer than 3” rather than as a zero or dropped from the table. Rates are admits per application.

California State University, Fall 2022 + 2023 + 2024

885
Applications, systemwide
830
Admitted
94%
Admits per application
139
Enrolled
CampusApplicationsAdmittedAdmits per application
Cal Poly SLO61422637%
San Diego60623739%
Long Beach27710638%
Cal Poly Pomona1399770%
Fullerton12410585%
Chico10510398%
San Jose857082%
San Francisco838198%
Northridge797494%
Humboldt787596%
Monterey Bay716896%
Channel Islands676496%
Sonoma616098%
East Bay575393%
Dominguez Hills474494%
San Marcos292897%
Los Angeles251456%
San Bernardino11fewer than 10—
Sacramento1010100%
Fall 2022 + 2023 + 2024, the three annual files summed. CSU withholds any group under 10, and does so separately in each year, so every figure here is a floor — the true count is that number or higher, never lower. A campus whose admits were withheld is shown as “fewer than 10” rather than left out. Rates are admits per application, not per student.

State test results, SBAC Grade 11, 2024–25

311
Exceeded standard, English
49.7% of those tested
219
Exceeded standard, mathematics
35.7% of those tested
626
Grade 11 tested, English
614 in mathematics

Between 0 and 219 students exceeded both standards. CDE reports each subject separately and never publishes the overlap, so this is a range: the upper bound assumes every student who exceeded in maths also exceeded in English, the lower bound assumes as little overlap as the totals allow. The parity ratio above uses the upper bound, which is the assumption most generous to the school.

Statewide, 27.4% of Grade 11 exceeded the English standard and 14.2% exceeded the mathematics standard. “Exceeded” is the highest of the state's four achievement levels; this page counts nothing below it.

7% of students qualify for free or reduced-price meals (lower-poverty; the California average is 62.8%). CDE, 2024–25.

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Sources: CAASPP Smarter Balanced research files (CDE, 2024–25) · UC Information Center, Admissions by Source School (Fall 2025) · CSU applications and admissions by high school (Fall 2022–2024) · FRPM (CDE, 2024–25). How these are combined, and where the arithmetic is uncertain ›
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