Mission San Jose High School - Fremont, California/CA

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Mission San Jose High School

41717 Palm Ave., Fremont, CA, 94539-4799 -

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Definition of Terms

Mission San Jose High School

School Level

High school

Grades Offered

Grades 9 - 12

County

Alameda County, CA

Students & Faculty

Total Students

2090 students

% Male / % Female

41% / 59%

Total Classroom Teachers

81 teachers

Students by Grade

Grade 9 - 543 students

Grade 10 - 513 students

Grade 11 - 553 students

Grade 12 - 481 students

This School

( CA ) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:26

1:20

Students by Ethnicity

This School

( CA ) School Average

% American Indian	n/a	1%
% Asian	58%	11%
% Hispanic	2%	45%
% Black	1%	7%
% White	19%	33%
% Unknown	20 %	4%

Additional Student Information

This School

( CA ) School Average

% Eligible for Free Lunch

44%

% Eligible for Reduced Lunch

10%

% Migrant Students Enrolled

n/a

( CA ) Statewide Testing Performance

School Statewide Performance

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School District Name

Fremont Unified School District

This School's Agency

( CA ) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	41	4
Number of Students Managed	32,121 students	1,785 students
District Total Revenue	$289,428,000	$16,194,000
District Expenditure	$287,421,000	$16,545,000
District Revenue / Student	$9,011	$8,848
District Expenditure / Student	$8,948	$8,162
District Graduation Rates	n/a	n/a

Mission San Jose High School (MSJHS or just MSJ), one of five Fremont, California, USA public high schools, was opened in 1964. The school, located in the district of Mission San Jose, is known for good academics.
Academics: Mission San Jose students perform well in various state and national tests. Most notably the school holds the highest position in the California public high school rankings (not including magnet schools) with an API (Academic Performance Index). A less cited ranking by Newsweek places the school 193rd in the United States. The school claims many achievements and honors; and, one of the school's most meaningful laurels is the high number (near the top of Bay Area schools) of students earning National Merit Scholarships. The school was named a National Blue Ribbon School in 1987 and 1996.
In 2006, Mission San Jose took second at the first Bay Area Regional Science Olympiad. In its first year of Science Olympiad competition, Mission advanced to the 2006 NorCal State Championships at which it placed 7th.
Mission San Jose also participates in various quiz bowl tournaments around the Bay Area, as well as the National Ocean Sciences Bowl, Science Bowl, and other quiz bowl competitions. MSJ often qualifies for the national tournaments of both the Ocean Sciences Bowl and the Science bowl by winning its regional competitions.
Also in 2006, Mission San Jose had 14 USA Biology Olympiad semifinalists, 635% higher than the national average by numbers of semifinalists and 350% higher by the ratio of semifinalists to participants (those who did not qualify). One student advanced to the National finals, an intense 14-day training camp at George Mason University that decides the 4-member USA IBO team.
Mission San Jose's math team has consistently scored among the top in the nation on the American Mathematics Competition, AIME, and USAMO tests. In 2006, Mission San Jose's team produced 2 USAMO qualifiers. In 2005, one student was invited to participate in MOSP. Furthermore, the team won 1st place in the California Math League in 2006, edging out rival Lynbrook High School by one point.
Mission San Jose's Goe team has also taken first place at the California High School Go Championships 2 years in a row. The chess team has taken 2nd place in the Northern California Chess Championship for three years straight. In 2005, the team tied for 1st at the CalNorthYouthChess regionals.
Unfortunately, the rigors of Mission San Jose High School academics has caused some of the students to succumb to cheating. In 2003, a little more than a handful of students hacked into the school computers and changed their transcripts. These students were eventually caught and expelled from the school.
Athletics: The school colors are green and white and the mascot is the warrior, but the logo was Mission Peak (located just east of Fremont, and easily visible from campus) recently until even more recently when a new warrior logo was designed and implemented with a student vote. The school's previous logo was a feathered arrow, but it was changed in the mid-1990s in response to the controversies surrounding use of Native American mascots and symbols by American schools. Currently, the school uses the "Mission Man" as a mascot.
Mission San Jose High School belongs to the Mission Valley Athletic League, which comprises of the five high schools in Fremont as well as James Logan High School and Newark Memorial High School, the only high schools in Union City and Newark, respectively. The MVAL is a league of the North Coast Section of the California Interscholastic Federation.
The athletic ability of this school varies from sport to sport. For example, the varsity football team was disbanded in 2002 due to lack of interest, while the varsity swim teams have been league champions for over 26 straight years. Other sports in which Mission excels include badminton (2004-2006 NCS champions) and tennis (2004 NCS champions). Mission's Winter Guard team has also just recently won Champion status in the 2006 Novice Division competition against fifteen other Guard Units at Del Oro. The football team was reformed a year after it disbanded and in 2005 Mission won the homecoming game for the first time in 13 years. Mission San Jose's baseball program enjoyed a run of success in the mid-90's, but has seen a lack of interest recently. Johnny Abreau, Greg Moore, and Bobby Hill are former Mission San Jose baseball players who have enjoyed professional success. Abreau and Hill played a number of years within the Chicago Cubs organization, while Moore played with the Anaheim Angels and Colorado Rockies.
Student activities: Mission has numerous different clubs organized by students. They cover a variety of categories, including board games, sports, volunteering, languages, publications, and academics.
Student Activities are directed by the Associated Student Body, or ASB, comprised of a President, a Vice President, a Secretary, a Treasurer, and an Activities Coordinator. Elections (with votes from the freshmen, sophomores, and juniors) are held annually to determine the new officers for the following school year. ASB Council Meetings meet every Wednesday at lunch to approve checks, pass new clubs, and discuss important announcements. The ASB officers are in the Leadership 2 class, headed by the Student Activities Director, a faculty member of MSJ.
The two major student publications are the Smoke Signal, a monthly tabloid format newspaper, and the Costanoan, the school's full-colored yearbook. A lesser known student literary magazine, the Phoenix, also gets published by the Phoenix club once a year.
Notable alumni: Consuelo Maria Callahan, Ninth Circuit Appeals Court Judge (Class of 1968); Gary Plummer, former NFL linebacker (Class of 1978); Anil Kashyap, University of Chicago Edward Eagle Brown Professor of Economics and Finance (Class of 1978); Dina Ruiz-Eastwood, Television personality and wife of Clint Eastwood (Class of 1983); Kristi Yamaguchi, Olympic Figure Skating gold medalist (Class of 1989); Don Hertzfeldt, creator of the animated shorts Billy's Balloon and Rejected, among others (Class of 1994).
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About This Zip Code (94539)

School Zip (94539)

(CA) State Average

Population (Approximate)

46,910 people

33,137,211 people

% (age 25+) w/College Degree

64%

32%

Population Average Age

38 years old

33.3 years old

Average Household size

3.2 persons

2.9 persons

Median Household Income

$101,977

$49,006

Avg. # of Rooms in Household

6.6 rooms

4.8 rooms

Median Age of Housing Structure

31 years old

39 years old

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% Owning / % Renting

84% / 16%

58% / 42%

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