Evergreen Valley High School
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. From 2007 to 2015, the school had a silver award on the U.S. News & World Report ''Best High Schools'' list.
History
The school initially compromised seven buildings on 52 acres of land overlooking the Santa Clara Valley, built at a total cost of $82.6 million. It opened in 2002 as a "Small School", with an emphasis on technology and the idea that every student would have a laptop to take home for doing homework. Within the high school, four mostly independent schools operated: Science & Technology, Global Economy, Human Performance, and Humanities. At opening, the school offered only two grade levels and the campus was still unfinished, so classes took place in portables on two nearby campuses: Silver Creek High School and Mount Pleasant High School.The campus officially opened for attendance in January 2003. Enrollment quickly approached its limit of 1,800 and petitions for shrunken boundaries and expansion circulated rapidly. On March 11, 2004, district trustees voted to construct a new building on campus to ease overcrowding. In 2006, construction began for the new science building.
Principals existed for each of the four of 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 more traditional format.