Founded September 2000, High Tech High School anchors the Point Loma flagship of its charter network from 2861 Womble Road inside Liberty Station. The 9-12 public charter uses a ZIP-code-based admission lottery that pulls from the same neighborhoods as its 7th- and 8th-grade feeder at High Tech Middle School next door within the Liberty Station campus cluster. Project-based learning runs across the four-year curriculum without AP coursework, honors sections run only in junior and senior years, and seniors defend a thesis alongside a required community internship before graduation. Funding history includes $17 million in early support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation between 2000 and 2006 alongside a $3 million founding gift from Gary and Jerri-Ann Jacobs, whose name the school originally carried. Supplemental tutoring outside school hours is a common add-on during exhibition-prep weeks, and The Learning Lighthouse is one Point Loma provider working with HTH families on writing-heavy humanities projects. The most intensive senior-year engagement is the culminating project plus community internship plus public exhibition cycle, pairing a real-world field placement with a defended thesis and a year-end showcase required for graduation.