The Cambridge School

  • Private
  • San Diego
  • 27 seniors
  • 406 students

The Cambridge School is a private high school in San Diego County (Poway Unified) with 27 seniors. In fall 2025, 73% of its 15 University of California applicants were admitted, compared with a county median of 72%. Its students applied most often to UC Los Angeles (UCLA), UC Irvine (UCI), and UC Davis (UCD).

Year

UC admit rate

73%

11 of 15 applicants, fall 2025

County median 72%

Seniors admitted to a UC

41%

11 of 27 seniors

County median 22%

Seniors who applied to UC

56%

15 of 27 seniors

County median 29%

UC Los Angeles (UCLA) admit rate

—

— of 14 applicants, fall 2025

UC Berkeley (Cal) admit rate

—

— of 10 applicants, fall 2025

Campus by campus, fall 2025

The share of this school's applicants each campus admitted, beside the campus's rate for everyone else. Hardest campus first.

University of California

The Cambridge School applicants did better than all California applicants at 2 of 3 campuses, about the same at 1.

  • San Diego30 pts higher

    55%

    6 of 11 admitted

    This school55%All CA25%

    Admitted students' average GPA 4.24 (all applicants 4.21)

  • Santa Barbara8 pts higher

    40%

    4 of 10 admitted

    This school40%All CA32%

    Admitted students' average GPA — (all applicants 4.19)

  • DavisAbout the same

    36%

    4 of 11 admitted

    This school36%All CA37%

    Admitted students' average GPA — (all applicants 4.14)

  • too few applicants to report14 applied

  • too few applicants to report13 applied

  • too few applicants to report10 applied

  • too few applicants to report9 applied

  • too few applicants to report— applied

  • too few applicants to report— applied

Fall 2025. A student admitted to several campuses counts once at each one. All CA is the campus’s admit rate that fall for applicants from every California high school. Within 3 points counts as about the same. GPA is the UC-calculated GPA (weighted, capped).