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Cupertino High School

10100 Finch Ave., Cupertino, CA, 95014-3411 -

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Definition of Terms

Cupertino High School

School Level

High school

Grades Offered

Grades 9 - 12

County

Santa Clara County, CA

Students & Faculty

Total Students

1591 students

% Male / % Female

53% / 47%

Total Classroom Teachers

71 teachers

Students by Grade

Grade 9 - 418 students

Grade 10 - 383 students

Grade 11 - 393 students

Grade 12 - 397 students

This School

(CA) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:22

1:23

Students by Ethnicity

This School

(CA) School Average

% American Indian	1%	3%
% Asian	51%	8%
% Hispanic	9%	39%
% Black	2%	9%
% White	38%	36%

Additional Student Information

This School

(CA) School Average

% Eligible for Free Lunch

30%

% Eligible for Reduced Lunch

% Migrant Students Enrolled

n/a

(CA) Statewide Testing Performance

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School District Name

Fremont Union High School District

This School's Agency

(CA) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	6	7
Number of Students Managed	9,890 students	3,960 students
District Total Revenue	$89,910,000	$37,604,000
District Expenditure	$87,574,000	$39,520,000
District Revenue / Student	$9,091	$9,496
District Expenditure / Student	$8,855	$9,980
District Graduation Rates	n/a	n/a

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Cupertino High School, colloquially referred to as just "Tino", is a four-year comprehensive public high school located near the Rancho Rinconada and Fairgrove neighborhoods of Cupertino, California, USA. It is part of the Fremont Union High School District. The school serves mostly suburban residential and IT-enriched areas in eastern Cupertino, southern Santa Clara, and west San Jose. It has been named a California Distinguished School by the California Department of Education in 1990, 1994, and 2007.
Cupertino High School opened in 1958 (its first day of actual academics was September 15, 1958) with 700 9th and 10th graders with George Fernandez as principal. Cupertino has had an average student body of 1600.. It offers a wide range of academic subjects and extracurricular activities, such as FBLA, Speech And Debate, Competitive Robotics, and Key Club.
Academics
Like most other American high schools, Cupertino is a four-year high school that consists of freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior classes.
Cupertino offers many AP and Honors classes including AP Chemistry, AP Biology, AP Spanish, AP French, AP Chinese, AP Japanese, AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC, AP Computer Science, AP English Literature, and AP Microeconomics. Many students finish Calculus by their junior year, and a handful finish an advanced placement foreign language class in their third year as well.
The student run school newspaper is "The Prospector", and the yearbook is the "Nugget". Cupertino High School boasts an award winning drama program, Cupertino Actors' Theatre, that produces plays and musicals, provides educational theatre workshops for English classes, and many opportunities for performance and design for students considering a career in the performing arts.
In 1996, Cupertino High School was awarded the National Blue Ribbon Award. The Blue Ribbon Schools Program honors public and private K-12 schools that are either academically superior in their states or that demonstrate dramatic gains in student achievement
As of 1999, Cupertino High school began providing a program to help students with various disabilities and differences, especially autism and Asperger syndrome. This class, Academic Communications, provided them with an opportunity to learn basic life skills and how to apply for jobs.
In 2007 Cupertino High School was ranked 566 in Newsweek Best High Schools. Yet a year later, it opted out of Newsweek's list, citing an unfair system of ranking with too much emphasis placed on AP classes.
Schedule
Cupertino High has a unique schedule. Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays are regular days, starting at 7:35 and ending at 2:55. However, Wednesdays and Thursdays are special "block days." On Wednesdays, school starts at 9:00 and students only attend periods 2,4, and 6 (each 80 minutes in length). On Thursdays, school starts at normal time and students attend periods 1, 3, 5, and 7. On both block days, there are also tutorial periods, which students may either spend studying in their designated classrooms or traveling to another classroom through the use of a tutorial pass. In past years, the schedule had been set up with the odd period block day on Tuesdays to correspond with that of Lynbrook High School. This was to allow students to take classes at Lynbrook if they so chose. However, there was very little demand for this, so the schedule was changed to its current format.
Notable alumni
Sports
John Hencken – Olympic Gold & Bronze Medal Swimmer
Kurt Rambis – Former NBA basketball player, former assistant head coach L.A. Lakers, current head coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves
Deron Thorp – Former NFL and NFL Europa Football player
Benjamin DiGregorio – Former HBC expo extrordinaire
Judas Prada - Former college basketball coach and former assistant coach of the Denver Nuggets
Pat Murphy - Professional sports agent (notable clients include baseball star Torii Hunter)
Entertainment, News Media, and Music
Azadeh Moaveni – journalist and author
Brian (Brain) Mantia – musician, drums Primus and Guns & Roses.
Peter Shin (1989) – Film Director, artist.
Ross McGowan – television anchor for KTVU
Renée Montagne – Host, Morning Edition, NPR
Politics
John Doolittle – Congressman from California's 4th district from 1991-2009
Fred Keeley – Assemblyman, California's 27th District from 1996–2002
Notes
External links
Cupertino High School website
Official Unofficial Alumni Site. Reunion information
Cupertino High School All Alumni Association
Information about Cupertino's Cross Country and Track Teams
Cupertino High School Soccer history
Cupertino High School Athletics
Cupertino High School Robotics

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