Pioneer High School (San Jose, California)

Pioneer High School has received 4 California Distinguished School awards (1996, 2000, 2006, and 2008), has been awarded the Santa Clara County Top Ten High School award, and has been listed in The Mercury News as a National Service Learning Leader School from 1998 to 2006. The school's Academic Performance index in 2007 was 801/1000, putting it in the top 20% of schools and classifying it under the "Very High Performing School" category. Pioneer has never failed to achieve the growth goals expected of them under the No Child Left Behind Act.

At Pioneer High, each student has a certain amount of unit requirements under different categories that they must complete in order to graduate. There are a number of accelerated and Advanced Placement classes students can choose from, as well as mock trial and radio broadcasting extra-curricular activities that they can choose to be involved in. The yearbook was a semi-finalist in the year 2006, and in the 2006–2007 school year the yearbook was chosen as the national sample.

Pioneer High School focuses on community service and service learning as part of its mission statement. To support this focus, the school requires all sophomore students to participate in a "Sophomore Project", a venture that demands a minimum of 30 hours of community service related to a world problem, in addition to many class assignments relating to it such as a poem and a poster board, in the span of a school year. 15 hours are required per semester of the sophomore year.{{Cite web |url=https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/8e1e7d_9d5c00700319409f9c0783292ab1d307.pdf |title=Sophomore Project Overview 2017-2018 |access-date=2024-05-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180216084758/https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/8e1e7d_9d5c00700319409f9c0783292ab1d307.pdf |archive-date=2018-02-16 |url-status=live}} In most cases, students exceed this amount, sometimes even exceeding one hundred hours, in which case they are presented the President's Volunteer Service Award.{{Cite web |url=http://www.phsservicelearning.org/PHSAbout5.html |title=PHS Service-Learning: Home |access-date=2008-08-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050317195001/http://www.phsservicelearning.org/PHSAbout5.html |archive-date=2005-03-17 |url-status=dead }}

During their Senior year, students are again given the opportunity to participate in a service learning project when they are introduced to the "Senior Exhibition" assignment. Students may complete multiple hours of personal or community work in order to obtain extra credits. The Senior Exhibition project is not mandatory, but students that complete it are rewarded a graduation cord.

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Pioneer Mustangs Athletics are generally known for being a strong force within the BVAL league of the Central Coast Section. The Athletic Department, headed by Joe Berticevich, has experienced much success over the past decade. Perhaps the sports Pioneer is most known for are its football and basketball teams. Pioneer football has achieved multiple winning seasons in the Mount Hamilton division of BVAL over the past decade, and continually competes with private schools of a much higher caliber.{{Cite web | title=Pioneer Mustangs | url=http://phsathletics.olinesports.com/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051210015531/http://phsathletics.olinesports.com:80/ | access-date=2025-03-28 | archive-date=2005-12-10}} The Mustangs biggest rivals are the Leland Chargers.

Pioneer's racial demographics are

• White (38.36%)
• Hispanic (36.03%)
• Asian (14.27%)
• Multiracial (8.64%)
• Black (2.24%)
• Other (0.46%)

Pioneer's gender demographics are

• Male (50.73%)
• Female (49.27%)

• Rob Becker '74 — Playwright, Defending the Caveman.{{Cite web |url=http://www.youthclassic.org/feature_articles/robbecker07.html |title=Rob Becker |access-date=2013-08-10 |archive-date=2019-04-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190411021434/http://www.youthclassic.org/feature_articles/robbecker07.html |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2007/07/09/rob-becker-once-an-all-star-always-a-caveman/|title=Rob Becker: Once an all-star, always a caveman|date=9 July 2007}}
• Steve Finn '69 — Philanthropist and former mayor of Los Altos Hills.{{Cite web|url=http://www.losaltosonline.com/news/sections/news/215-news-briefs/9384-J8755|title=Finn takes helm as LAH mayor, offers to 'celebrate all we have in common'|date=21 June 2000 }}{{cite web| url = http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2007/07/30/daily47.html| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131111022544/http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2007/07/30/daily47.html| archive-date = 2013-11-11| title = Mt. View music, arts school gets $1M challenge grant - Silicon Valley Business Journal}}
• Count Five — 1960's rock band.{{Cite web | title=Welcome countfive.com - Hostmonster.com | url=http://countfive.com | access-date=2025-03-28 | website=countfive.com}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.sanjoserocks.org/i_countv.htm|title = Count V - San Jose Rocks|date = 23 February 2021}}
• Dave Hoffmann '88 - Professional football player and All-American college football player for the Washington Huskies{{Cite web| url=http://www.profootballarchives.com/hoff02000.html | title=Dave Hoffmann | access-date=2020-05-29 | archive-date=2016-03-04 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304111110/http://www.profootballarchives.com/hoff02000.html | url-status=dead}}
• Bill Hullett '68 — Nashville guitarist.{{Cite web|url=https://www.premierguitar.com/artists/bill-hullett-music-city-session-man|title = My Interviews: Bill Hullett| date=16 February 2009 }}{{Cite web|url=http://www.bronsonsmusic.com/bill_hullett.html|title = Bill Hullett: Music City Session Man}}{{Cite web|url= https://eminence.com/pages/artists__bill-hullett|title = Bill Hullett}}{{Cite web|url= https://www.allmusic.com/artist/bill-hullett-mn0000078138/credits|title = Credits: Bill Hullett| website=AllMusic }}
• David E. Osborne '69 — Author, Reinventing Government and The Coming. Senior White House advisor, Clinton administration.{{Cite web|url=http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_19417594|title = Herhold: An old exposé continues to haunt Newt Gingrich|date = 26 November 2011}}{{Cite magazine|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,977214,00.html|title = David Osborne: A Prophet of Innovation|magazine = Time|date = 14 December 1992|last1 = Goodgame|first1 = Dan}} 2018 Spur Award Winner, Historical Novel.{{Cite web|url=http://westernwriters.org/2018/03/2018-spur-award-winners/|title = 2018 Spur Award Winners|date = 10 March 2018}}
• Kevin Pollak '75 — Actor, impressionist, game show host, and comedian.{{cite news| url = http://people.com/archive/this-guy-must-be-serious-vol-39-no-1/| title = This Guy Must Be Serious {{!}} PEOPLE.com| newspaper = People}}
• Dave Righetti '76 — Professional baseball player and coach.{{Cite web|url=http://www.santaclarabroncos.com/general/2001-02/releases/080901aaa.html|title=Former Bronco Coach and AD Selected to Hall of Fame|date=9 August 2001}}
• Alan Chang '98 — Pianist and songwriter.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2007/08/22/michael-bubls-conductor-got-his-start-in-san-jose/|title = Michael Bublé's conductor got his start in San Jose|date = 22 August 2007}}
• Naomi Girma '18 — Professional soccer player for the United States women's national soccer team and San Diego Wave FC.{{cite news |url=https://www.myscience.org/news/wire/stanford_soccer_captain_naomi_girma_is_a_product_of_her_ethiopian_roots-2020-stanford |title=Stanford soccer captain Naomi Girma is a product of her Ethiopian roots |date=May 29, 2020 |access-date=August 4, 2022 |publisher=myScience}}{{cite news |url=https://www.socceramerica.com/publications/article/85750/rising-us-star-naomi-girma-on-prepping-for-postp.html |title=Rising U.S. star Naomi Girma on prepping for postponed U-20 World Cup, virtual team-building, and falling in love with soccer with a free-play start |date=May 29, 2020 |access-date=August 4, 2022 |publisher=Soccer America |first=Mike |last=Woitalla}}

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• {{Official website|https://pioneer.sjusd.org/}}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20080905131956/http://pioneerhigh.org/misc_images_forms/PioneerProfile_logo.pdf School Profile]

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