Corona del Mar High School
Corona del Mar High School (CdM) is a public school located in the Eastbluff neighborhood of Newport Beach, California, and belongs to the Newport-Mesa Unified School District. It is a combination of a middle school (7th and 8th grades) and a high school (9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grades). The school was founded in 1962 and has an enrollment of approximately 2,100 students.[2] The school covers an area of just over 1,700,000 square feet. According to US News, there are 92 full-time teachers.
Corona del Mar High School
Cultivate Integrity, Develop Resiliency, Model Empathy
1962
Jacob Haley (9-12)
Rebecca Gogel (7-8)
7–12
(7-8) 718 (9-12) 1,698 (2019-20)[1]
Navy, Columbia blue, Silver, White
Home of the Sea Kings
High School:
Sea Kings, Sea Queens
Junior High School:
Tritons
formerly Riptide
Trident Magazine
Ebbtide
It has been ranked by Newsweek as one of the top 200 high schools in the United States,[3] and it has been a state champion in several sports. However, it has also been featured in the national media for scandals involving homophobia, sexism, and academic dishonesty.
Rankings
The school has been placed on multiple national and state-level lists of "top schools". In 2011 U.S. News & World Report ranked it 127 of 21,786 high schools in math and science[40] and Newsweek included it as number 172 of the 500 best high schools in the United States.[3] It earned a gold medal from U.S. News & World Report in 2014, with a national ranking of 222 (37 in California).[41] Niche.com ranked the school #144 out of 16,801 for Best College Prep Public High Schools in America in 2020.[42] U.S. News also gave the school a national ranking of 658, 89th in California, 42nd in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, and first in the Newport-Mesa School District. They also reported that 75% of students have taken at least one AP exam, 63% passed at least one AP exam, 63% were proficient in math, 80% were proficient in reading, and that the school has a graduation rate of 95%.[43]