Leland High School | |
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Address | |
6677 Camden Ave , 95120 United States | |
Coordinates | 37°13′02″N121°50′40″W / 37.217136°N 121.844326°W |
Information | |
Type | Public |
Established | 1967 |
School district | San Jose Unified School District |
Principal | Harveen Bal [1] [2] |
Faculty | 77.11 (on FTE basis) [3] |
Grades | 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Enrollment | 1,923 (2017-18) [4] |
Student to teacher ratio | 24.94 [3] |
Color(s) | Navy blue, Columbia blue, Gold [5] |
Mascot | Chargers |
Rival | Pioneer |
Information | (408) 535-6290 |
Website | leland |
Leland High School is a public high school located in the Almaden Valley in San Jose, California. Leland is one of the nine high schools in the San Jose Unified School District and is a STEM school.
Leland was founded in 1967. [6] It was named for Raymond B. Leland, who had served as principal of San Jose High School, and his son Gordon Leland, who had been a student at the school and had died in World War II. [7] [8]
Leland has won accolades for its speech and debate team, [9] and more recently its FIRST Robotics Competition Quixilver 604 [10] and its FIRST Tech Challenge Quixilver 8404 [11] robotics teams. [12]
In 2021, U.S. News & World Report ranked Leland as the number 1 high school in San Jose Unified School District and number 68 in the state of California, [13] and the education ranking and review website Niche ranked the school as the number 1 high school in the district and number 77 in the state. [14]
In 2014, Leland was ranked number 20 in the United States for high standardized test scores between 2012-2014. [15] Newsweek ranked Leland High School 54th in the nation. [16]
During the 2004–05 school year, Leland High School was recognized with the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education, [17] the highest award an American school can receive. [18]
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