Mesa Linda Middle, Victorville CA

Original Research by School Decision on Mesa Linda Middle

Mesa Linda Middle is a public middle school serving grades six through eight in Victorville, a sprawling High Desert city at the southwestern edge of the Mojave Desert, roughly eighty-one miles northeast of Los Angeles. The school sits within Adelanto Elementary, a small district, and operates in a community shaped by logistics, warehousing, government, health care, and retail.

The school enrolls a student body that is majority Hispanic, with substantial African American representation and a significant share of students from other racial and ethnic backgrounds. A large majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting the economic profile of the area. The school draws from a community where housing is relatively more affordable than statewide benchmarks, though rents have risen modestly in recent months. Victorville itself is experiencing growth: new residential subdivisions totaling hundreds of homes are in approval, major warehouse distribution complexes are under construction, and the city is pursuing Old Town revitalization through a newly created Community Revitalization Investment Authority. The local economy centers on the Southern California Logistics Airport, Victor Valley College, health-care systems, school districts, and government.

Academic performance at Mesa Linda is substantially below grade-level proficiency across the subjects and grades tested. In English language arts, roughly one in ten students scored at or above proficiency across the middle grades. In mathematics, the picture is worse: fewer than one in twelve students in sixth and seventh grade met proficiency, with eighth grade at roughly one in seven. Eighth-grade science proficiency is single-digit. These results place the school in the bottom quartile of overall proficiency when compared against other districts in San Bernardino County. Only one data point from an earlier period is available, a 2012-13 social studies measure that showed roughly one in five eighth graders proficient, but that test is no longer administered in California, so no trend is available. Current assessment data comes only from the 2024-25 school year, so it is not yet possible to determine whether performance is stable, improving, or declining.

The school is not part of a magnet program, is not a charter, and does not carry a specific Title I designation in the data available. Proficiency data for eighth grade across subjects is reported, but proficiency rates for sixth and seventh grade in science and social studies are not available because those grades are not tested in those subjects under California's current assessment schedule.

A parent considering Mesa Linda should understand that the school is embedded in a community with significant economic challenges and serves a student population with high rates of economic hardship. The academic performance measures indicate that most students are not yet meeting grade-level standards. The school's role within a small district and its location in a growing but historically under-resourced corner of the region are also relevant context. Whether the school offers particular supports, enrichment, or pathways beyond the core tested subjects is not reflected in the data provided, so a parent may want to look into that further with the school directly.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 64%

School 4% · District 12% · ▼ 8 pts below district

▼ 27 pts below state median · ▼ 19 pts below county median

Grade 75%

School 5% · District 16% · ▼ 11 pts below district

▼ 25 pts below state median · ▼ 15 pts below county median

Grade 814%

School 14% · District 15% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▼ 14 pts below state median · ▼ 5 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 614%

School 14% · District 21% · ▼ 7 pts below district

▼ 30 pts below state median · ▼ 25 pts below county median

Grade 710%

School 10% · District 31% · ▼ 21 pts below district

▼ 35 pts below state median · ▼ 27 pts below county median

Grade 811%

School 11% · District 26% · ▼ 15 pts below district

▼ 33 pts below state median · ▼ 25 pts below county median

Science

Grade 88%

School 8% · District 13% · ▼ 5 pts below district

▼ 18 pts below state median · ▼ 12 pts below county median

Social studies

Grade 822%

School 22% · District 22%

▼ 27 pts below state median · ▼ 22 pts below county median

This schoolAdelanto Elementary, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 6Lower-income15%Higher-income12%3 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income10%Higher-income11%1 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income11%Higher-income11%1 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 6Lower-income4%Higher-income2%2 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income5%Higher-income4%1 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income13%Higher-income17%4 pp gap