| Number of Schools Managed |
23 |
7 |
| Number of Students Managed |
25,817 students |
3,960 students |
| District Total Revenue |
$245,186,000 |
$37,604,000 |
| District Expenditure |
$279,038,000 |
$39,520,000 |
| District Revenue / Student |
$9,497 |
$9,496 |
| District Expenditure / Student |
$10,808 |
$9,980 |
| District Graduation Rates |
n/a |
n/a |
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- Evergreen Valley High School is a comprehensive, 4 year high school located in the Evergreen area of San Jose, California, and is part of the East Side Union High School District. It is the newest high school in the district and was founded in 2002. The school held its first graduation of seniors on June 7, 2005. The Class of 2006, the first class of students to have attended the school since its opening year in 2002, graduated on June 7, 2006. The school's newspaper is named The Prowler. In 2007, U.S. News and World Report recognized the school with a silver award in its Best High Schools 2008 list.
- History
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Evergreen Valley High School opened in 2002 on the "Small School" concept, with an emphasis on technology and the idea that every student would have a laptop to take home for doing homework. The school opened initially with only two grade levels: freshmen and sophomores. It existed as a single high school, with four mostly independent schools within it: Science & Technology, Global Economy, Human Performance, and Humanities. In Fall 2002, the campus was still unfinished, so classes took place in portables on two nearby campuses: Silver Creek High School and Mount Pleasant High School. S&T and HU were situated at Silver Creek, while HP and GE were situated in Mt. Pleasant. The EVHS campus officially was open for attendance in January 2003. Administration tended to be unhelpful in teachers' and students' requests for aid, although they themselves were also swamped with the task of managing a brand new school.
- Principals existed for all of the schools, and were supervised by a primary principal. However, due to change in district leadership and issues with funding and philosophy, in February 2004, the small school system was done away with, and the high school adopted a traditional format, which it has kept until the present.
- Academics
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Evergreen Valley High School achieved APIs of 803 in 2006 and 827 in 2007, when also U.S. News and World Report recognized the school with a silver award in its Best High Schools 2008 list.
- Biotech Academy
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Geared towards relieving the overcrowding at Evergreen Valley High School, the Biotech Academy existed from 2004-2006 in portables at the campus of Evergreen Valley College in August 2004, offering a "small school" environment (similar to EVHS's original blueprint) as well as a focus on biotechnology and the opportunity to take more advanced classes, including college classes. Laptops and smaller classes were also promised, and delivered after half a year. Students attending the Biotech Academy were still eligible to participate in extracurricular clubs, leadership programs, sports, and activities at Evergreen Valley High School.
- Demographics
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In the 2005-06 school year, out of 2,411 students, 57.5% of all students were of Asian descent (12% of which is Filipino), 23.2% Hispanic, 14.3% White, 4.6% African American, and 0.3 % American Indian. As of 2004-2005, the graduation rate is 93.9%. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, a son of actor Don Duong once attended EVHS.
- Extracurricular Activities
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Evergreen Valley has many extracurricular programs. Its musical and performing arts programs include drama, choir, marching band, concert band, Winter Percussion, and color guard. The school also has a wind ensemble that performed in Carnegie Hall in New York City in mid-March 2008.
- Athletics
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Evergreen Valley has had a strong athletic tradition since the opening of the school. Sports that are offered are Cross Country, football, tennis, volleyball, water polo, basketball, soccer, wrestling, badminton, baseball, softball, swimming, cheerleading, track and field, and golf (as of the 2009-2010 school year). The San Francisco Chronicle profiled an EVHS swimmer in April 2005. For the 2006-2007 school year, the Blossom Valley Athletic League ranked EVHS fifth out of 22 in the league's "Best of the Best" standings. Several sports have also won championships. In the 2005-2006 year alone, the first place champion sports teams included the badminton team, which had previously won in 2005, as well as the teams for boys' tennis, track and field, and water polo, and girls' softball, volleyball, and soccer.
- External links
- Official site
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