Gunderson High

Gunderson High is one of the middle-of-the-pack four-year high schools in San Jose, California, operated by San Jose Unified, with 744 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12.

Gunderson High is one of 41 schools operated by San Jose Unified, a district that serves 24,322 students overall.

Demographically, Gunderson High lists that 68% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 11% White, 10% Asian, 6% multiracial, 5% Black. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school lists 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. An estimated 55% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Santa Clara County (around 37%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Gunderson High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.0%, the actual is 33.0%, a residual of -14.0 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Santa Clara County put median household earnings sit near $164,281, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Santa Clara County runs 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), of which Gunderson High is one.

Nearest neighbor: Liberty Alternative, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Gunderson High at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 33.4%.

Gunderson High operates from a downtown location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Gunderson High has declined 33%, going from 1,108 students in 2018 to 744 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 63% to 68% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 in 2025.

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