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In 2008, Independence High School confirmed that The American would cease publication due to debt accumulation and budget problems. The American was Independence High School's Columbia Scholastic Press Association Gold- and Silver Crown-winning yearbook. Independence High School's Flag Ceremony during its 2009 Multicultural Assembly. In fall of the 2013, the city opened a brand new public library right next to the G-Complex on Educational Park drive, using funds from bond measures passed in 2002 to construct 20 new public libraries in San Jose. Independence also contains seven tennis courts, four baseball fields, and two gymnasiums. In the beginning of the 2012–2013 school year, the district gave all the high schools artificial grass fields in the stadium. The Luis Valdez Center for the Performing Art went under construction in the summer of 2014. Īlong with a now-defunct planetarium, the school also houses Olympic-sized racing and diving pools, as well as an Olympic-regulation track. B-Villa's main building was also affected by a fire in 2013 and opened for the 2016–2017 school year. Along with the new administration offices, the school built a student center that quickly became popular with the students. In the summer before 2014–2015, Independence's administration office moved from the H-Complex to the N-Complex when they were rebuilding it after a fire damaged the complex. ACE moved into the H-Complex and shares the K-Complex with science classes that are part of Independence. Pegasus uses what used to be known as the L- Complex. Independence also shares its campus with ACE Charter High School and Pegasus High School (alternative school).

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Other academic structures include complexes also labeled with letters, including the G-Complex, housing art classes M-Complex, housing industrial classes and the P-Complex, which are portable buildings currently in use by KIPP, which runs a charter school on campus called KIPP San Jose Collegiate. All villas are architecturally identical and surround a concrete clock tower in the middle of the school.įrom 1976 to 1979, the Independence High gym hosted San Jose State University men's basketball games. During the fall of 2005,Į-Villa (Eagle Hall) was removed indefinitely, only to be used as the name place for all music rooms. The four primary groups of buildings are referred to as the villas, including A-Villa (American Hall), which includes the school bank B-Villa (Bicentennial Hall) C-Villa (Constitution Hall), which includes the disciplinary committee and D-Villa (Democracy Hall). Independence High School consists of over fifty buildings, each labeled with a specific letter. Class size at Independence is an average of 26.8 students.

Class size Īs of the 2008–2009 school year, the pupil-teacher ratio was 21.8 to 1, with 94.4% of teachers being fully credentialed as of the same time, the full-time equivalent of Independence's teachers is 157.4.

Out of these, 3.7% identified as White, 2.7% identified as African-American, 34.1% identified as Hispanic or Latino, 54.9% identified as Asian (19.0% identified as Filipino), 0.2% identified as American Indian or Alaska Native, 0.7% identified as Pacific Islander, 0.8% gave either mixed or no response, 8.4% are students with disabilities, and 17.6% of the student population are considered English learners. Out of the sixteen high schools ESUHSD operates, Independence services the largest student population, with 3,054 students as of the 2013–2014 school year. Independence students are called 'sixers' and their mascots are named 'Sammy the Sixer,' who is an interpretation of an American Founding Father, George Washington, and 'Amerigo the Eagle,' who is a Bald Eagle, America's national bird. Later magnet programs were extended into the performing arts and space technology, which were cut in 2009 due to budget constraints. Independence is considered a magnet school, with three specialized programs, called 'academies': electronics, finance, and teaching. Its namesake is the United States Declaration of Independence, which celebrated its bicentennial in the same year Independence High was established in 1976. The school is operated by the East Side Union High School District (ESUHSD). Independence High School, also referred to as IHS, is a public high school located in the Berryessa district of San Jose, California, United States.