Mission San Jose High

Mission San Jose High is one of the high-enrollment high schools in Fremont, California, part of Fremont Unified, with 1,794 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 838 students per school, that is 114% larger than typical.

Fremont Unified comprises 43 schools with combined enrollment of 33,073 students; Mission San Jose High is among them.

In terms of who attends, Mission San Jose High reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Asian (89%). The remainder comes out to 4% Hispanic, 3% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Alameda County as a whole is about 33% Asian, so the school skews noticeably more Asian than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 24.8:1. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 18% of students at Mission San Jose High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Alameda County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mission San Jose High sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 68.8%; actual is 88.2%, +19.4 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Alameda County) shows that median household earnings sit near $129,367, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Alameda County's 394 public schools (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students), Mission San Jose High is one campus in the mix.

Joshua Chadbourne Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Mission San Jose High comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 78.8%.

Mission San Jose High operates from an urban location.

Looking at the recent track record. Mission San Jose High's enrollment has edged down 11% since 2018, when it stood at 2,014 (now 1,794).

On this page, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.