Homestead High School - Cupertino, California/CA

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Homestead High School

21370 Homestead Rd., Cupertino, CA, 95014-0203 -

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Definition of Terms

Homestead High School

School Level

High school

Grades Offered

Grades 9 - 12

County

Santa Clara County, CA

Awards

Blue Ribbon School – Selected in 2004

Students & Faculty

Total Students

2089 students

% Male / % Female

51% / 49%

Total Classroom Teachers

83 teachers

Students by Grade

Grade 9 - 567 students

Grade 10 - 589 students

Grade 11 - 504 students

Grade 12 - 429 students

This School

( CA ) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:25

1:20

Students by Ethnicity

This School

( CA ) School Average

% American Indian	n/a	1%
% Asian	36%	11%
% Hispanic	11%	45%
% Black	2%	7%
% White	50%	33%
% Unknown	1 %	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 Union High School District

This School's Agency

( CA ) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	6	4
Number of Students Managed	9,890 students	1,785 students
District Total Revenue	$89,910,000	$16,194,000
District Expenditure	$87,574,000	$16,545,000
District Revenue / Student	$9,091	$8,848
District Expenditure / Student	$8,855	$8,162
District Graduation Rates	n/a	n/a

Homestead High School serves western Cupertino, western Sunnyvale, and portions of southern Los Altos, in Santa Clara County, California. It belongs to the Fremont Union High School District (FUHSD).
Academics: Homestead provides a wide variety of classes, including the following Advanced Placement (AP) classes: US History, English, Physics, Calculus, Art, Government/Economics, Chemistry, Biology, Computer Science, Statistics, Spanish, French, Japanese, Music Theory, Chinese, and others.
Extracurricular activities: Homestead High School is nationally renowned for its chapter of the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA). The chapter has won its state's sweepstakes award for the past eight years in a row, which is a state record. Furthermore, using California's sweepstakes point system (10 points for first place, 9 points for second place, down to 1 point for tenth place), Homestead FBLA would have won the sweepstakes at the 2006 National Leadership Conference (NLC). Other Fremont Union High School District schools have successful FBLA programs including Lynbrook High School and Monta Vista High School.
Homestead's award-winning student newspaper, The Epitaph, has been awarded eight Gold Crowns, the most prestigious high school journalism award, over the years from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.
Homestead's Mathematics Competitions Team includes some of the best high-school mathematicians in the country. In 2002, the Mathematical Association of America's American Mathematics Competition (AMC) awarded the Edyth May Sliffe Award for Excellence in Teaching to Homestead teacher and team faculty advisor Steve Headley. Over the years, students from the mathematics team have regularly qualified for the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME). The team took fourth place nationally in the Mu Alpha Theta National Log 1 Contest Mathematics Contest in 2005 and in 2006.
Homestead also has a robotics team competing in the FIRST Robotics Competition.
Homestead has an active theater department that presents multiple plays per year. Homestead also sends a contingent to the annual California Thespian Festival.
Homestead's music program is also highly respected. The Mighty Mustang Marching band tied for 6th place at the 2005 Western Band Association State Championships, and its wind ensemble consistently ranks superior in competitions.
Campus: Homestead High School is sandwiched between Homestead Road (to the north) and Interstate 280 (to the south). A football field, synthetic track (laid down in 2002), and a baseball field occupy the southern half of the school's campus. The other half, facing Homestead Road, consists of several school buildings, including a relatively newly built library. The campus is a combination indoor/outdoor, in that the majority of the buildings have an inner corridor, but these corridors do not connect with other buildings. Green-colored hoofmarks decorate Homestead High School's sidewalks and walkways, which are from the school's official mascot and color. The front walls of the school are decorated with murals of similar theme, including a large, newly painted mural of a Mustang Horse.
Notable alumni: Notable alumni at Homestead High School include: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak (founders of Apple Computer).
Gordon Biersch Brewery co-founder Dan Gordon.
Uday Mathur underground Bay Area rapper.
1976 Summer Olympics 400m relay silver medalist Linda Jezek.
Major League Baseball pitcher Scott Erickson.
NFL wide receiver Sean Dawkins.
NFL linebacker Bob Pifferini.
NFL lineman Jeff Sevy.
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About This Zip Code (95014)

School Zip (95014)

(CA) State Average

Population (Approximate)

54,412 people

33,137,211 people

% (age 25+) w/College Degree

72%

32%

Population Average Age

38 years old

33.3 years old

Average Household size

2.8 persons

2.9 persons

Median Household Income

$100,020

$49,006

Avg. # of Rooms in Household

5.4 rooms

4.8 rooms

Median Age of Housing Structure

38 years old

39 years old

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Zipcode (95014)

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% Owning / % Renting

62% / 38%

58% / 42%

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Nearby Schools:


1. Cupertino High School - 1591 students - view location
2. Monta Vista High School - 2475 students - view location
3. Community Day - 15 students - view location
4. Fremont High School - 1856 students - view location
5. Santa Clara County Rop-north - n/a - view location
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