Mt. Pleasant High School | |
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Address | |
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1750 South White Road , 95127 United States | |
Coordinates | 37°20′46″N 121°48′30″W / 37.3462°N 121.8082°W |
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Type | Public |
Opened | 1964 [3] |
School district | East Side Union High School District |
Principal | Martha Guerrero |
Teaching staff | 59.72 (FTE) [1] |
Grades | 9-12 |
Number of students | 1,271 (2018–19) [1] |
Student to teacher ratio | 21.28 [1] |
Color(s) | Red and black [2] |
Athletics conference | CIF Central Coast Section Blossom Valley Athletic League |
Mascot | Cardinal |
Website | mtpleasant.esuhsd.org/ |
Mt. Pleasant High School is a public high school located in the Alum Rock district of San Jose, California. It is a part of the East Side Union High School District
After selling his high-tech businesses, Steve Poizner worked at the school as a volunteer teacher, writing about it in Mount Pleasant: My Journey from Creating a Billion-Dollar Company to Teaching at a Struggling Public High School, a book released in April 2010. Poizner invoked hyperbole while describing the school, including exaggerating crime and graduation rates at the school and in the neighborhood. [4] Ira Glass and This American Life exposed the differences between Poizner's account and the true story of the school, with Glass calling the story "obviously and provably untrue." [5] [6] [7] Mt. Pleasant's high school principal, Teresa Marquez, cancelled Poizner's visit to the school, then Marquez and students protested the book at a book signing. [8] [9] The book reached the fifth position of the New York Times bestseller list, but that was possibly through altering of the sales data by ResultSource, a book marketing company. [5] [10] Ironically, the book title misspells the name of the school, as it is officially "Mt. Pleasant High School" and not "Mount Pleasant High School."