The program, which was reportedly not put in writing until 1996, allowed PTA parents who volunteered over 75 hours to exercise specific control over their students' schedule and teachers.

Funds raised by the Foundation have been used to fund full-time faculty positions, security cameras, robotics class equipment, technology, textbooks and fiction books, teachers' professional development conference registration, academic league and team competition fees, athletic facility improvements, athletic trainer, and coaching fees among others.

All LJHS teachers have a valid credential for the subjects they teach, and SDUSD has certified the site as 100 percent No Child Left Behind (NCLB) compliant.

The CAASPs are summative assessments for all 11th graders in English Language Arts and Mathematics to measure their achievement in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS).

On La Jolla's 2018 performance on the CA School Dashboard, LJHS 11th graders scored 78.6 above the standard for Math and English Language arts, a 21.8 point increase from 2017.

Muirlands Middle Principal Geof Martin has also stated that "In addition, healthy start times lead to decreased rates of emotional and behavioral problems, including anxiety and depression, along with corresponding increases in social, academic and athletic performance".

[13] All classes are expected to conform to the Schoolwide Student-Learner Outcomes (SSLOs): In 2013–2014, La Jolla High School did not meet the Adequate Yearly Progress criteria mandated under the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), with an insufficient percentage of students proficient in Mathematics.

The settlement was precipitated by the whitewashing of student political messages from LJHS's so-called "senior benches" by former principal Dana Shelburne.

According to the ACLU chapter, the settlement includes an updated and constitutionally-sound free speech policy for all students in the San Diego Unified School District.

Assistant coach Steven Wachs was suspended for the rest of the season following the incident, however, he said he was unaware of the player's concussion during the game.

Carter told the Voice of San Diego (VOSD) that he "was present at the junior varsity game on Oct. 16, but didn’t see [the student] get injured."

However, video footage obtained by VOSD through a Public Records Act request show Carter watching as the injured student was assessed.

He can’t read more than three lines at a time before a searing headache sets in ...[he] hasn’t formally withdrawn from school, his dad said, but his grades for the semester won’t count.

News footage from San Diego CBS8 shows SDUSD employees removing student posters from the Free Speech Board indicated in the 2012 ACLU settlement in order to scrub explicit graffiti.

[21] On February 27, 2020, four female graduates of LJHS filed a lawsuit against SDUSD and former high school physics teacher Martin Teachworth.