Eastern Sierra Academy (ESA) is an extremely small (twenty students and four teachers), technology-based, college-preparatory public high school serving the town of Bridgeport, California, USA. In Newsweek magazine's Challenge index ranking of America's 27,000 public high schools, ESA was ranked 19th in the nation based upon its 2004 performance. In 2003, the school was ranked 7th in the nation for their performance in 2002.
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