Mt. Pleasant High

Mt. Pleasant High is a reasonably sized secondary school in San Jose, California, overseen by East Side Union High. The school caters to 998 students in grades 9 through 12.

East Side Union High comprises 16 schools with combined enrollment of 19,736 students; Mt. Pleasant High is among them.

On the student-mix side, Mt. Pleasant High shows that 75% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest breaks down as 18% Asian, 3% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. An estimated 63% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Santa Clara County's rate of about 37%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mt. Pleasant High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 42.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 32.1%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Santa Clara County indicate 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 Mt. Pleasant High is one.

KIPP Navigate College Prep is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mt. Pleasant High ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 24.8%.

Mt. Pleasant High operates from an urban location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mt. Pleasant High has shrank 23%, going from 1,292 students in 2018 to 998 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 69% to 75% over that span.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Members of the school community can share what they know.