MESA Data and Results
MESA Profile
(Academic Year 2009-10)
| Total students served by MESA
|
21,207 |
| Pre-college |
15,259 |
| Community College |
3,694 |
| University level |
2,254 |
Collaborations with Educational Institutions
| University of California campuses |
6 |
| California State University campuses |
11 |
| California Community Colleges campuses |
33 |
| Independent college and university campuses |
4 |
| Community sites |
4 |
| School districts |
112 |
| Schools |
337 |
| Senior high |
161 |
| Middle and junior high |
141 |
| Elementary |
35 |
Student Outcomes
- Of MESA high school graduates who are African American, Latino American and American Indian, 41 percent are eligible for admission to a UC campus. This eligibility rate is much higher than the statewide rate of 6 percent for graduates from these groups.
- 77 percent of MESA students successfully completed Algebra 1 before the 10th grade.
- Of MESA seniors, 54 percent completed A-G requirements, compared to the state average of 34 percent. And 74 percent of MESA seniors took the SAT or ACT, compared to 36 percent of non-MESA participants in the same schools.
- Of MESA high school graduates, 60 percent went on to postsecondary education as math, science or engineering majors.
- Of the MESA seniors who went on to postsecondary education, 70 percent went on to college compared to the state average of 48 percent. Of the MESA high school graduates who went to college directly after graduation,
- 28.5 percent went to the University of California
- 21.4 percent went to the California State University
- 24.6 percent went to the California Community Colleges
- 4.3 percent went to independent California universities or colleges
- 5.7 percent went to other institutions, mostly out-of-state universities or colleges
- Of those MESA community college students who transferred to four-year institutions, 100 percent entered these colleges and universities as math or science majors.
- Of the California MESA community college students who transferred to four-year institutions,
- 43 percent transferred to the University of California
- 49 percent transferred to the California State University
- 8 percent transferred to independent California universities and colleges, out-of-state universities and colleges, and others.
- California MESA is the model for similar programs in over a dozen other states. A national HP initiative used MESA as its model for a national community college initiative designed to increase the number of engineers and computer scientists who are African American, Latino American, American Indian, or women.
See our map of MESA sites throughout California.
