This is a list of primary and secondary schools in
San Diego,
California, organized by school district.
The San Diego Unified School District, also known as
San Diego City Schools, is the
school district that serves the majority of the city, it includes 113
elementary school
A primary school (in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and South Africa), junior school (in Australia), elementary school or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary ed ...
s, 23
middle schools, 4 atypical schools, 10 alternative schools, 27
high schools
A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper seconda ...
, and 25
charter schools. In the northern part of the city,
Poway Unified School District and
San Dieguito Union High School District are districts outside city limits, but serve several schools within city limits. In the southern part of the city,
Sweetwater Union High School District
The Sweetwater Union High School District is a school district headquartered in Chula Vista, California. , the school district is the largest secondary school district in California.
The union high school district serves over 42,000 high schoo ...
serves multiple schools within city limits, although it is headquartered outside city limits.
High schools
Charter
Private denominational
Private nonsectarian
Poway Unified
San Diego Unified
San Dieguito Union
Middle/Junior high schools
Private nonsectarian
Poway Unified
San Diego Unified
San Dieguito Union
Elementary schools
Private Independent
Private Classical
Private Denominational
Cardiff School District
Encinitas Union
Poway Unified
San Diego Unified
Preschool through High School
Private denominational
Private nonsectarian
Other schools
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Monarch School (San Diego)
Monarch School is a public K-12 school in San Diego, California, which is exclusively for students who are homeless, at risk of being homeless, or impacted by homelessness. It was founded in 1988. At that time it was the only such school in the ...
, a preschool-through-12 school exclusively for children impacted by homelessness, run as a public-private partnership between The Monarch School Project and the San Diego County Office of Education
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Art of Problem Solving Online School (San Diego)
Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas.
There is no generally agreed definition of ...
, offers math and computer science courses online at the middle school and high school level. This school offers courses directly to students and their families as well as through arrangements with other schools.
See also
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List of high schools in San Diego County, California
This is a list of high schools in San Diego County, California. It includes public and private schools and is arranged by school district (public schools) or affiliation (private schools). These schools offer grades 9 through 12. Junior High s ...
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List of school districts in San Diego County, California
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