Phoenix High

Located at 6150 Snell Rd., in San Jose, California, Phoenix High is a micro-enrollment 9-12 campus that hosts 70 students (grades 11 through 12), overseen by East Side Union High. Enrollment runs roughly 92% below the state mean of about 838.

Phoenix High is one of 16 schools operated by East Side Union High, a district that works with 19,736 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Phoenix High logs that 83% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 6% White, 6% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Santa Clara County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Phoenix High has 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Phoenix High tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 66% of students at Phoenix High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Santa Clara County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Santa Clara County indicate median household income runs about $164,281, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Santa Clara County's 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), Phoenix High is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Santa Teresa High, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 9%: 77 students in 2018 compared to 70 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 68% to 83% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 in 2025.

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