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Magnet Schools in Santa Clara County, California

Santa Clara County has 8 schools identified in the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection as operating a magnet program. They offer magnet programs to part of the student population rather than the whole school.

  • 8 magnet schools and programs
  • 8 schools with a magnet program

Magnet status is based on the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection, the latest federal collection available for magnet classification.

School enrollment, grades and contact details are from NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25.

Magnet schools in Santa Clara County

Listed alphabetically. Nothing here is ranked, scored or ordered by anything the federal collections do not record.

  • Andrew P. Hill High

    San Jose, CA

    ◦ Magnet program

    Grades
    9-12
    Enrollment
    1,564
    Level
    High

  • Independence High

    San Jose, CA

    ◦ Magnet program

    Grades
    9-12
    Enrollment
    2,289
    Level
    High

  • Mt. Pleasant High

    San Jose, CA

    ◦ Magnet program

    Grades
    9-12
    Enrollment
    998
    Level
    High

  • Oak Grove High

    San Jose, CA

    ◦ Magnet program

    Grades
    9-12
    Enrollment
    1,374
    Level
    High

  • Piedmont Hills High

    San Jose, CA

    ◦ Magnet program

    Grades
    9-12
    Enrollment
    1,918
    Level
    High

  • Santa Teresa High

    San Jose, CA

    ◦ Magnet program

    Grades
    9-12
    Enrollment
    2,134
    Level
    High

  • Silver Creek High

    San Jose, CA

    ◦ Magnet program

    Grades
    9-12
    Enrollment
    2,139
    Level
    High

  • Yerba Buena High

    San Jose, CA

    ◦ Magnet program

    Grades
    9-12
    Enrollment
    1,612
    Level
    High

What “magnet” means on this page

● Whole-school magnet

Whole-school magnet

The magnet program applies across the school. Every student attending is part of it.

◦ Magnet program

Magnet program

The school offers a magnet program to part of its student population, alongside its other classes.

Other historical or unverified magnet listings

These schools were identified as magnet schools in older source data but are not confirmed by the latest available federal magnet collection.

  • Gunderson High

    San Jose, CA

    □ Unverified magnet listing

    Grades
    9-12
    Enrollment
    1,035
    Level
    High

  • Herbert Hoover Middle

    San Jose, CA

    □ Unverified magnet listing

    Grades
    6-8
    Enrollment
    1,116
    Level
    Middle

  • Horace Mann Elementary

    San Jose, CA

    □ Unverified magnet listing

    Grades
    K-5
    Enrollment
    532
    Level
    Elementary

  • Las Animas Elementary

    Gilroy, CA

    □ Unverified magnet listing

    Grades
    K-5
    Enrollment
    509
    Level
    Elementary

  • Peter Burnett Middle

    San Jose, CA

    □ Unverified magnet listing

    Grades
    6-8
    Enrollment
    840
    Level
    Middle

  • San Jose High Academy

    San Jose, CA

    □ Unverified magnet listing

    Grades
    9-12
    Enrollment
    956
    Level
    High

Other schools listed in Santa Clara County

These are the other schools this directory holds for Santa Clara County. They are not identified as magnet schools in the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection.

Magnet schools elsewhere in California

All magnet schools in California

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