Marina High School

How to Enroll at Marina High School

Marina High School enrolls students by Huntington Beach Union High attendance area: students who live inside the boundary register by address, with no entrance exam. The district assigns high school students to one of its six comprehensive high schools by home address, regardless of which middle school they attend; the district's School Locator is the authority on which school an address is assigned to.

District residents can apply to attend a different district high school during the Open Enrollment window, which ran from February 23 to April 3, 2026 for the 2026-27 school year. Applicants must be pre-enrolled with a valid district student ID, approved students commit to the new school for at least one year, and students promoting to 9th grade must submit a new request. After the window closes, intradistrict requests are handled case by case by the home school's Guidance Office, and the district states that transfers are not guaranteed.

Students who live outside the district, including Irvine residents, must first obtain an approved Interdistrict Attendance Agreement from their home district and then submit an online HBUHSD interdistrict application with a disciplinary record (or supporting documentation if there is none) and, for special education students, the IEP. Applications for 2026-27 opened on February 23, 2026; the district considers them based on enrollment criteria and program availability and does not guarantee placement at the requested school.

Marina High School's 9th grade AVID class requires an application and teacher approval, and AP Seminar requires concurrent enrollment in at least one AP course or a recommendation from the AP Seminar teacher. According to the 2026-27 course catalog, students may, with counselor approval, take math concurrently at Golden West College or Pacific Coast High School so that they can complete two or three AP math courses before graduating.

Courses and Signature Programs at Marina High School

In the 2026-27 University of California A-G course list, Marina High School has 141 approved courses, including 24 AP courses and 31 UC-approved honors courses (courses that receive extra weight in the UC GPA). See the full A-G list.

AP Capstone

AP Capstone is the College Board's research-based program. AP Seminar (grade 10 or 11) builds reading analysis, argument-based writing and individual and team presentations around cross-curricular topics; in AP Research (grade 11 or 12), students carry out a yearlong investigation that ends in a 4,000-5,000 word paper and an oral defense. Both courses meet the UC A-G "g" elective requirement.

Japanese

Marina High School offers a four-year Japanese sequence from Japanese 1 to Japanese 4, with kanji starting in Japanese 2; AP Japanese Language and Culture requires a B or better in Japanese 3.

Marine Corps Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (MCJROTC)

MCJROTC focuses on character, leadership and civic responsibility through leadership principles, U.S. military traditions and history, physical fitness and community service, and cadets are expected to wear the uniform and take part in program events. The school states that it is not a recruiting program.

Career Technical Education (CTE) Pathways

According to the 2026-27 course catalog, the school's CTE pathways are Automotive, Computer Science, Construction, Culinary, Digital Media, Entrepreneurship, Fashion Design, Hot Metals, Interior Design and Metal Machine; completers who take the sequence in order over at least two years with a 3.0 pathway GPA earn a blue cord at graduation.

AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination)

AVID is a college-readiness elective focused on helping students in the academic middle enroll in four-year colleges. Ninth graders apply and need teacher approval, and continuing students advance based on success in previous AVID classes.

Academic Results at Marina High School: CAASPP and Graduation

In the 2024-25 California state tests (CAASPP), 67% of Marina High School 11th graders met or exceeded the English language arts standard and 52.5% met or exceeded the math standard; the statewide figures for 11th graders were 57% and 30.5%. For the class of 2025, 96.6% of the 504 students in the four-year cohort graduated, and 54.8% of graduates completed the A-G courses required for UC and CSU admission.

Twelve Years of UC Application Data at Marina High School: Applicants, Admit Rates and GPA

The University of California publishes applicants, admits and enrollees for every California high school. Combined 2023–2025, 234 of 363 applications from Marina High School to the UC system were admitted (64%). Categories with fewer than five students are not published by UC and appear as "—", not zero.

Campuses are listed in order of the U.S. News national university rankings. UC leaves a category blank when it has fewer than five applicants or fewer than three admits or enrollees.

Student Body at Marina High School

In 2025-26, 44.7% of Marina High School students were socioeconomically disadvantaged and 4.4% were English learners.

• White36.9%
• Hispanic or Latino29.1%
• Asian22.9%
• Two or more races7%
• Filipino1.5%

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