About Newport-Mesa Unified School District
Newport-Mesa Unified School District is a public school system serving Orange County, California, based in Costa Mesa. It serves 17,635 students across 32 schools spanning K–12, and is classified as a city: mid-size district. By enrollment it is the #70 largest of California’s 1976 school systems.
Size and structure
Newport-Mesa Unified School District enrolls 17,635 students in 32 schools — an average of about 551 students per school. It serves grades K–12 and ranks #70 of 1976 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Newport-Mesa Unified School District, from the NCES Common Core of Data (17,635 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
Newport-Mesa Unified School District employs about 934 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 18.9:1 — below the California average of about 21.7:1, meaning comparatively smaller classes. Total district staff is roughly 2,621.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How California funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for Newport-Mesa Unified School District are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
California reports school and district performance on the California School Dashboard, which rates indicators from red to blue across academic performance in English and math, chronic absenteeism, graduation rate, suspension rate, English-learner progress and college-and-career readiness. Look up Newport-Mesa Unified School District on the California School Dashboard.
Accreditation status
In California, most schools that seek K–12 accreditation use ACS WASC (the Accrediting Commission for Schools, Western Association of Schools and Colleges) rather than Cognia. Search Newport-Mesa Unified School District’s schools in the ACS WASC directory.
Newport-Mesa Unified School District vs. California
See every California district side by side in the California directory.
Look up Newport-Mesa Unified School District’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):