Mcgill School of Success, San Diego CA

Original Research by School Decision on Mcgill School of Success

McGill School of Success is a small charter school serving kindergarten through fifth grade in San Diego's Lincoln Park neighborhood. It is the sole school in its own single-school charter district, operating under the San Diego Unified School District.

The school currently enrolls a small population, with particularly high concentration in kindergarten. The vast majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic, with very small numbers of other racial and ethnic groups represented. Because the school does not report English learner status or special education enrollment counts, those details are not available to review.

On California's standardized assessments for 2024-25, McGill's proficiency results are very low across both tested subjects. In math, students in third grade reached proficiency at less than half the rates of their fourth-grade peers, and no students in fifth grade scored at proficiency. In English language arts, proficiency was similarly modest in third and fourth grades and zero in fifth. Fifth-grade science proficiency was also zero. When proficiency results are averaged across all tested grades and subjects, the school's overall performance sits in the bottom quartile relative to other districts in San Diego County. Because this school year is the only one with available data, no trend can yet be observed.

The school is in the midst of a curriculum consolidation, moving from a fragmented approach where different grade bands used different math programs (one curriculum for kindergarten through third grade, another for third through fifth, plus separate online tools assigned by grade) to a unified TK-5 math continuum. This change affects how math instruction is sequenced across the entire elementary span and represents a pedagogical shift currently underway.

The school's location in the 92102 zip code sits in a housing market where median home values are somewhat below the state benchmark and rent has remained relatively stable. A parent may want to look further into McGill's near-term academic response plans and the timeline for the math curriculum transition, particularly given the proficiency gaps visible in the current data.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 329%

School 29% · district not reported

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

Grade 424%

School 24% · district not reported

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

Grade 50%

School 0% · district not reported

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

English language arts

Grade 328%

School 28% · district not reported

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

Grade 425%

School 25% · district not reported

▼ 17 pts below state median · ▼ 23 pts below county median

Grade 50%

School 0% · district not reported

▼ 45 pts below state median · ▼ 53 pts below county median

Science

Grade 50%

School 0% · district not reported

▼ 28 pts below state median · ▼ 34 pts below county median

This schoolDistrict average, 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.