- Lynbrook High School (abbreviated LHS) is a co-educational, public four-year secondary school located in the West San Jose neighborhood of San Jose, California, USA. It was founded in 1965, graduating its first class in 1968. It was once ranked among the top five public comprehensive secondary schools in California. Lynbrook belongs to the Fremont Union High School District. It is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
- Like most other American high schools, Lynbrook is a four-year high school that consists of freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior classes. As of 2006 Lynbrook's largest class is the class of 2010.
- Lynbrook High School's official school colors are blue and white, with red being used as an optional additional color. On school T-shirts, flags, and sports uniforms, blue is almost always applied as the background, and white is used as the lettering. Valkyries skirts (worn by the Lynbrook girls' dance team) have blue, white, and red on them. "Go Vikings" is the school slogan, often shortened to "Go Vikes."
- History: Lynbrook High School opened on September 13, 1965. Because Cupertino High School had grown very large by that time, a new school in the western San Jose area was constructed. The District Board nominated Kendall Stanger as the first principal of the school. The school was technologically advanced around the time it was built and had closed-circuit television and air conditioning. During the first year, there was no gymnasium, locker room, or swimming pool. There were sophomores and freshman attending that year. By the second school year the gymnasium, locker room, and 'Olympic sized' swimming pool were complete.
- During the 1990s, Lynbrook High School's Asian American students dramatically grew and replaced much of the formerly white student body. The school also became much more academically focused and competitive as the "college craze" started to take place in many high schools across the nation. A few decades ago, there were not many Advanced Placement (AP) classes available to students, but today the number of AP classes has greatly increased.
- Campus: Compared to other high schools in the South Bay, Lynbrook High School's buildings and facilities are fairly old. Most of Lynbrook's buildings are constructed of old brick exteriors, but the interiors generally have a less aged appearance. New structures and facilities built since 1990 include the library, swimming pool, field house, and Voyager buildings.
- Lynbrook has a football field with a dirt track around it, a swimming pool, and a small baseball field. Although the baseball field and football field are in need of renovations, Lynbrook's swimming pool in excellent condition. Lynbrook High School's swimming pool has nine lanes and devotes about half of its area to non-lane-divided deep-water areas. The deep-water area is used mainly for water polo competitions. As one of the newest swimming pools among South Bay high schools, Lynbrook students take pride in their four-year-new swimming pool.
- The classroom wings are on the back (east) side of the school and are numbered from 101-615. The 100 and 200 wings are on the north side, and the 500 and 600 wings are on the south side. The gymnasium, swimming pool, and tennis and basketball courts are situated in the southwest of Lynbrook High School's campus. The western third of the campus consists of the Stober field (a large green lawn used primarily for field hockey practice and student events) and a football field. The visual and performing arts center is the school's easternmost building. The school's mural of the Viking, which faces the main parking lot, is actually painted on the same building that houses the girl's locker rooms and the weight training room.
- The rally court or quad is the hub of student life at Lynbrook and is surrounded by the cafeteria, classroom wings, auditorium, and the ASB den. The marching band sometimes performs in the rally court.
- Academics: Lynbrook has a solid academic reputation. Like nearby schools Monta Vista and Saratoga, Lynbrook is widely known for consistently being one of the top 20 high schools in California for several years. Lynbrook's academic reputation has also inflenced the real estate market in the surrounding neighborhood, causing home prices to rise higher than other neighborhoods in the San Jose area.As of 2005, Lynbrook High School's base Academic Performance Index (API) averages 895, which is similar to those of Saratoga, Mission San Jose, Gunn, and Monta Vista. The 2004 API ranking for Lynbrook High School is 10 out of 10, which is the best rating possible for any school, and its similar- schools API ranking is 9 out of 10. Also in 2005, The Washington Post magazine rated Lynbrook as the 178th best high school in the entire United States. Within California, Lynbrook is ranked as having the 14th highest API score in the state.
- Lynbrook students consistently receive high marks on standardized exams, including the SAT and Advanced Placement Exams. On the SAT I, the mean verbal score for the class of 2004 was 595/800 and the mean math score was 656/800. In the 2002-2003 SAT results, 83% of all Lynbrook students scored over 1000. Out of 906 tests by 431 students who took Advanced Placement Exams in 2004, 27% scored 5, the highest score possible, and 79% passed. STAR test results are also remarkably high, with most students scoring proficient or above in almost all subjects.
- Most Lynbrook High students are concerned about entering into a top university or college, like students at Monta Vista, Palo Alto, Saratoga, and Gunn. Almost all students take the SAT. Many SAT prep schools have sprung up all over San Jose, Cupertino, and Saratoga. These SAT prep classes are taken by a large percentage of Lynbrook pupils; as a result, Lynbrook High School appears to have relatively high SAT and API scores. Many students choose to take honors and AP classes to boost their academics. Although many people view Lynbrook as a highly stressful and competitive, the level of academic difficulty is entirely up to the student's choice. Not all students may choose to have academically rigorous courses and environments.
- Like nearby Monta Vista High School, Lynbrook has high grades on the average, although Monta Vista's scores tend to be slightly higher. GPA's above 3.8 are not uncommon, and GPA's below 3.0 are below school average. For some students, heavy emphasis is placed on math-intensive honors classes and Advanced Placement (AP) courses. Due to Lynbrook's high academic achievements, many Lynbrook graduates have gone to Harvard, Brown, Princeton, Claremont Colleges, NYU, USC, MIT, Cornell, CalTech, UC Berkeley, Stanford, UCLA and UCSD. Not all students attend four-year colleges, and about one-fourth attend two-year colleges.
- Sports and teams: There are field hockey, baseball, cross-country, football, tennis, badminton, soccer, swimming, golf, track and field, wrestling, and water polo teams. Its chess, mathematics, and robotics teams are especially successful. Lynbrook's main rival is Monta Vista High School, but also occasionally includes Cupertino High School and Mission San Jose High School. Its tennis, water polo, badminton, and track teams are excellent. Lynbrook's freshman cross-country team is currently one of the fastest freshman teams in the region.
- Lynbrook's non-athletic teams include: orchestra; choir; marching band with colorguard (fall), winterguard (winter/spring), winter percussion (winter/spring); robotics team (Team 846: Funky Monkeys); dance team (Valkyries); cheerleading; Science Bowl team; Speech-and-debate team.
- School publications include: newspaper (The Epic), literary magazine (Vertigo), yearbook (The Valhalla; the 2004-2005 edition being the first in color), newsletter (Viking Pride).
- The school also has many clubs including Interact, Robotics, FBLA, Speech and Debate, Octagon, JETS, Key, Red Cross, MUN, and Link Crew (freshman orientation club).
- ASB: Lynbrook ASB (Associated Student Body) organizes student activities and is lead by both student and administrative members. As an organizer of many student games and activities around the year, ASB sets up class competitions, brunch and lunch time entertainment, and rallies.
- ASB plans and organizes homecoming, which is the largest event on the school calendars. During homecoming, classes hold "skits" and compete against each other on the final day of homecoming week.
- ASB cards are issued by ASB, which allow students to receive discounted prices on school merchandise, tickets, and activities. An ASB card can, as of the 2006-2007 school year, be purchased for $75, with the cost of the yearbook included in the total cost.
- School boundaries: Lynbrook High School's boundaries comprise the western part of West San Jose and parts of northern Saratoga. The school's area is bound to the north by Bollinger Road, to the east by Saratoga Creek, to the south by Cox Avenue, and to the west by De Anza Boulevard. Currently, the Residency Verification policy states that all students who are enrolled in Lynbrook High School must be physically residing within the district's boundaries. The Residency Verification Anonymous Hotline is one of the district's ways of helping to enforce the policy.
- Lynbrook students are from either western San Jose or northern Saratoga. A small number of students live elsewhere but are allowed enrollment due to lottery enrollment or by exceptions from the district.
- Technology: Lynbrook considers itself a technology-literate school which uses the Internet as the primary means of communication. Like some schools within the Fremont Union High School District, teachers, administrators, and students use the A+ Board for announcements, discussions, assignments and schedules. The A+ Board can also be used for posting e-mail addresses and files.
- The school library also has 36 public terminals for student use. Two computer labs in Rooms 005 and 006 are only for use by classes that have made appointments with the school, but students may access the computers during Monday and Thursday tutorial periods.
- Notable Alumni: Greg Camp, guitarist and lead songwriter for the band Smash Mouth.
- Orville Redenbacher's grandson (heir to the Redenbacher fortune).
- Gwen Stefani of No Doubt attended for a single semester before transferring to another school.
- Cailen D'Sa, who came to fame for becoming the first person to win more than 600 grand on the NBC hit show `Deal or No Deal.' His total of $603,394 is a record (as of 12/27/06).
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