Project Lead The Way STEM-certified and serving grades 5-6 in Point Loma San Diego, Richard Henry Dana Middle School runs San Diego Unified's Point Loma Cluster middle program from 1775 Chatsworth Boulevard under CDS code 37-68338-6059604. The school draws students from every K-4 feeder in the cluster, including Loma Portal Elementary School, Silver Gate, Sunset View, Ocean Beach, and Cabrillo, each arriving with GATE designations and IEP supports intact. Namesake Richard Henry Dana Jr. described the Point Loma shoreline in his 1840 memoir "Two Years Before the Mast" after hide-trading voyages along the California coast, a reference point woven into the social-studies curriculum alongside the PLTW engineering and computer-science sequence. GATE clustering accommodates the top decile of cluster-feeder scholars, and state-assessment preparation across math and English language arts pairs with after-school reinforcement at centers like Mathnasium for families working on California's sixth-grade math and ELA benchmarks. The fifth-and-sixth-grade-only configuration, rather than a standard 6-8 middle-school pattern, reflects the Point Loma Cluster's historical split that routes Dana graduates onward to Correia Middle for seventh and eighth grade before they enter Point Loma High School for grades 9-12.