Homestead High School (California)

Official name	Homestead High School
Established	1958
Principal	Graham Clark
Website	http://hhs.fuhsd.org/
Enrollment	2014
Mascot	Mustangs
School colors	Kelly green and white
School yearbook	Pegasus
School newspaper	The Epitaph

Homestead High School serves western Cupertino, western Sunnyvale, and portions of southern Los Altos, in Santa Clara County, California. It belongs to the Fremont Union High School District.

Academics

Academically, Homestead ranks in the top 10 high schools in Santa Clara County with a 2004 CAT/6 ranking in the 82nd percentile for Mathematics, 74th percentile for Science, and 69th percentile for Reading and Language.

Homestead provides a wide variety of classes, including the following Advanced Placement (AP) classes: US History, English, Physics, Calculus, Art, Government/Economics, Chemistry, Biology, Computer Science, Statistics, Spanish, French, Japanese, Music Theory, Chinese, and others.

Homestead has an active theater department that presents multiple plays per year. Homestead also sends a contingent to the annual California Thespian Festival.

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Homestead High School's swimming pool.

Campus

Homestead High School is sandwiched by Homestead Road to the north and Interstate 280 to the south. A football field and tennis court occupy the southern half of the school's campus. The other half, facing Homestead Road, consists of school buildings, including a relatively newly built library. The campus is a combination indoor/outdoor, in that the majority of the buildings have an inner corridor, but these corridors do not connect with other buildings. Green-colored hoofmarks decorate Homestead High School's sidewalks and walkways, which are from the school's official mascot and color. The front walls of the school are decorated with murals of similar theme, including a large, newly painted Mustang Horse.

Notable alumni

Notable alumni at Homestead High School include:

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak (founders of Apple Computer);
Gordon Biersch Brewery founder Dan Gordon;
1976 Summer Olympics 400m relay silver medalist Linda Jezek;
Major League Baseball pitcher Scott Erickson.
NFL wide receiver Sean Dawkins.
NFL linebacker Bob Pifferini.
NFL lineman Jeff Sevy.

Athletics

Homestead has teams in the following sports:

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