San Jose High

San Jose High operates as a mid-sized four-year high school in San Jose, California, overseen by San Jose Unified. Current enrollment sits at 874 students spanning grades 9 through 12.

San Jose Unified runs 41 schools in total, collectively educating 24,322 students. San Jose High is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, San Jose High records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (85%); the rest comes out to 8% Asian, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, San Jose High logs 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 70% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Santa Clara County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, San Jose High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 37.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 24.9%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Santa Clara County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $164,281 per year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. San Jose High is one of 412 public schools in Santa Clara County (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students).

Sunrise Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts San Jose High at 1st of 6; the average score across the group is 15.7%.

San Jose High operates from an urban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at San Jose High has shrank 14%, going from 1,021 students in 2018 to 874 in 2025.

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