Mira Costa High
Manhattan Beach, CA · High School · Grades 9-12
Mira Costa High is a high school in Manhattan Beach, CA with 2,497 students enrolled and a 69% proficiency rate. Part of Manhattan Beach Unified. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
About This School
Mira Costa High is a high school located in Manhattan Beach, California. The school serves 2,497 students in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 23.3:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 69% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading. The school reports a 80% graduation rate.
6% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Mira Costa High is part of the Manhattan Beach Unified in California.
How This School Compares
Mira Costa High has 2,497 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Manhattan Beach Unified (839 students). Its 69% proficiency rate is 3 percentage points below the district average of 72%. Compared to the California state average of 45%, the school performs 24 points higher. The 23.3:1 student-teacher ratio is above the national average of 16:1.
Frequently Asked Questions
Mira Costa High has 2,497 students enrolled in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 23.3:1.
According to EDFacts data, 69% of students at Mira Costa High meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Mira Costa High has a 80% graduation rate, measuring the percentage of students who graduate within four years.
Mira Costa High is part of the Manhattan Beach Unified in Manhattan Beach, California. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.