Leland High School (San Jose, California)

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Leland High School
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Leland High School (San Jose, California)
6677 Camden Ave

San Jose
,
California
95120

United States
Coordinates 37°13′02″N121°50′40″W / 37.217136°N 121.844326°W / 37.217136; -121.844326
Information
Type Public
Established1967
School district San Jose Unified School District
PrincipalHarveen Bal [1] [2]
Faculty56.32 (on FTE basis) [3]
Grades9, 10, 11, 12
Enrollment1,593 (2022-23) [3]
Student to teacher ratio28.28 [3]
Color(s)   
Navy blue, Columbia blue, Gold [4]
MascotChargers
Rival Pioneer High School
Information(408) 535-6290
Website leland.sjusd.org

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.

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History

Leland was founded in 1967. [5] 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. [6] [7]

Awards and recognition

Leland has won accolades for its speech and debate team, [8] and more recently its FIRST Robotics Competition Quixilver 604 [9] and its FIRST Tech Challenge Quixilver 8404 [10] robotics teams. [11]

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, [12] 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. [13]

In 2014, Leland was ranked number 20 in the United States for high standardized test scores between 2012-2014. [14] Newsweek ranked Leland High School 54th in the nation. [15]

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, [16] the highest award an American school can receive. [17]

Notable alumni and staff

The Leland High School Quad. LelandQuad.JPG
The Leland High School Quad.

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