The school's jazz program is home to the Award-winning and touring Mission Bay Preservationists, as well as the Mission Bay Mambo Orchestra, the only youth-Latin big band in California. The music program also includes a concert band, string orchestra, full-size symphonic orchestra, swing and concert choirs, and the aforementioned 2 jazz-bands. It has been taught by
Jean-Paul Balmat since 2006, who become Mission Bay High's music educator after a two-year hiatus from 2004 to 2006. In 2006, Mission Bay introduced
International Baccalaureate courses that students could take to help them achieve their I.B. diploma. == Demographics ==