Graduated from Cupertino High in 1968. School was good then, and has only gotten better! Someone blogged about Sports being bad, then it turns out it was just whining about the "Cheer" section. Gee - where's your priorities - Don't you care about your child's education? What's that girls future? - Professional cheerleader. Those jobs pay $15.00 a game. People lie, cheat to get their kid into CHS. Wonder why? When I was there, it was a student-run school - with adult supervision. Helped immensely to prepare me for real life. Russ Danielson read more

I was fortunate enough to attend last week's Spring Choir Show, an impressive presentation of song and movement, a high-quality formal concert, as described in the printed program but clearly not accepted by the rowdy parents in the audience, who continued to use their cell phones, take photos, move about the auditorium to get better shots, whistling and cheering and shouting. An initial announcement warned that "ushers would be busy enforcing these rules" but they were not. This leads me to wonder if the Music Department should consider giving, in addition to the regular show, one Performance (perhaps higher-priced) for those who truly desire a formal setting and are willing to behave, and where enforcement would be a fact. What a difference it would make to my appreciation of the music! read more

This school is ok but the real reason i gave it a 2 star is because of the sports here honestly don't know where to begin the cheer coach is so rude. The sports admin did nothing to fix it which is even more infuriating and never would have thought this would have came from cupertino. Cupertino please teach your cheer coach to nicer it's honestly really disgusting the way her attitude is it's unacceptable and unbelievable. read more

If you're new to the school or come during the school year it will be hard to adjust and the teachers don't help either. They won't even try to tell you what u missed out on or anything. They also expect you to know everything even though that's what they are supposed to be teaching you but are instead teaching something completely different. For a school that appears to not have a lot of ap and hard classes they sure make it hard for new students to adjust. I will put however, that the teacher are efficient and "apparently" know what they're doing. read more

Cupertino High School Pioneers! CHS DAMN! Seriously? FTR??? Hell Yeah! Go figure... I was going to see if any of my alums are yelpers too.. but low and behold that I have never written a review for the place. And apparently neither has anyone else. So here goes a shot at FTRness. How do I sum up 4 years of high school life? Well, technically speaking I spent 3 years there.... lets just chalk it up to 3.5 since I did graduate. From teachers who let me get away with nearly anything, the location which allowed me to head over to the mall, to the parents of students who unwittingly let me into their homes and lives and lastly the students that have been both a curse and a blessing.. thank you for having made or not made a lasting impression on me. From all the different types of people that I have met has sped me down my path to self discovery and to person I am today. Minus one star for letting me graduate (mostly for vastly improving your infrastructure after I graduated and looking all fancy when I pass by) The world will never be the same... buhahhahaha ;D read more

Cupertino High School - 'TINO!!!!! - Middle Schools & High Schools Near Me - Cupertino, California

Cupertino High School special education is really "special". Either the instructors/aides are truly incompetent (a distinct possibility), mentally lazy, or playing some bizarre game only they have the rules for. As a private tutor, I can state that I have never before seen such bizarre treatment of a special-needs student. The curriculum near totally misses the verbal/intellectual level of the student ("now let's read between the lines and extrapolate some potential outcomes for the future") for a kid who is barely this side of verbal and exhibits echolalia. My jaw drops at the _amazing_ conversations they have with this kid, based on this ability to repeat the last word/phrase spoken. I mean, that's when they do actually pay attention to him. Their general tone of voice and manner of speaking to him is more reminiscent of prison guards at a California penitentiary. Care? Respect of the individual? This is Communist California at its finest! And if you are a parent, I would scarcely recommend allowing your special needs kid to serve time, err spend time, here unless you've a strong backbone and the courage and guts to fight for his/her proper education. Unless he's one of the teacher's favorites. read more

Aah yes good ol Cupertino high thanks for all the love. Sorry I did not rate you earlier but I must say you are the best. Smaller than most schools in Cali and Texas but you still make me happy up to today because I am Houston Famous thanks to you guys. I love this school it has a high API which makes it a better place to learn. Even funnier I don't get how all of a sudden when this school is a open campus people just walk away to eat lunch. I really like how this place feels like being in a secondary school in Singapore but without all the BS rules that you see in Asian high schools. Yes the courses are challenging but I would most certainly still bite the bullet back then. The clubs at this school were so much better than at PHS back when I went here. There were no cliques here too just union and love.In comparison to Sugarland schools this place is still better. It is really spirited too. Being lazy is not an option here because most of the college acceptance rates are to CSUs and UCs. Even if you went here and go to CC you will get into a university in 2 years instead of 3 Drawbacks: before the school was about to go into remodeling and now it is fully done to reveal the importance of 95014 education. That is a reference to the show 90210. For people who went here freshman year only be careful because you may not be here permanently or get a duel HS diploma. Diversity can be a problem for some. It does feel like going to SF or AMK Secondary one way or the other. If you or your kids went here and you want future generations to do so as well "Always strive for the best". Being lazy is not an option here because most of the college acceptance rates are to CSUs and UCs. read more

Graduated in mid-2000's. Did not improve my job prospects, social skills, or future. I was in the "low track" from the very beginning. I guess that's what you get when your parents divorce, your mom abused you, and teachers hated you. All I wanted was someone to care. No one cares. They're all "just doing their job". Except the school therapist at the time. He actually tried to help me, but even he could only do so much. Living in Cupertino and going to this school doesn't mean a thing if you come from a broken home. Remember kids, all of this will not mean a thing in ten years. Forget about prom, cheer squad, teachers, homework etc. None of that will make your life better. Think about who you are and who you want to be when you're 30. That will make a bigger difference in your life than any teacher can. You might not like what you see, but change it now, and you won't end up like me... read more

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears! This school is the best school on the planet Earth! It is better than every school ever! The student culture is so great, everyone is so friendly and nice to each other and so polite - all the bullies are just great standup guys who aren't complete fucking douchebags at all! Not to mention these kids have such great 'school spirit' - and how could they not? If they didn't, they would be ostracized and left to rot in the gutters, where kids spit and litter regularly. After all, a unified society is one where everyone feels like they belong! It's so great that the kids are exposed to this child-friendly version of nationalism because it's good to indoctrinate kids and teach them to love their own 'groups' when they're adults. That way, they can ostracize people in a variety of ways - whether it's based on race, nationality, politics, or any other silly label to hate people with! I even recommend starting a new class, held in Room 101 of course, based on teaching school spirit and how this school is better than every other school - a class for kids with negative attitudes who don't think they should participate during rallies! The Yearbook and Journalism classes are also very educational! Kids who have aspirations for journalism can now learn what it's like to write journalism in the real world - they're taught to censor themselves if there's anything remotely offensive or critical of the administration, and publish a fluff piece or a fashion article or something completely devoid of any substance! Everything else is immediately censored and edited; if there's any opinion that might possibly result in a lawsuit or complaint, that opinion is taken out back and shot in the mouth. So kudos to you Journalism for teaching kids what freedom of speech really means! As for Yearbook: again, much kudos! You do your job well in maintaining a clean, saccharine image of high school for future generations, so when they reminisce, they don't think "totalitarian society", they think "nostalgic John Hughes film", and realize high school was the moment when their lives peaked. I also want to commend you for resembling the Ministry of Truth as realistically as possible, and for following Journalism's example of self-censorship and administrative authority - without you, those students might remember what high school was actually like. The teachers are actually pretty nice. Finally, the administration is such an understanding and reasonable group of people, especially when they handled that Nerf gun situation! Boy, was that a dark time in our school's history! It's not like that they discovered the first student held a toy gun and, instead of ending it there like reasonable people, called in the other students on the logical basis that they might've been carrying real guns, out of some deranged paranoia from a potential lawsuit, and suspended most of them as an example. That would be ridiculous! These people are our nation's finest administrators, and not at all overly sensitive nerve clusters from a prostate that have somehow gained sentience. So thank you CHS, for teaching me what it's like to obey authority and conform to the masses - an educational experience I will NEVER FORGET. read more

pretty gr8! went here and graduated a few years ago & i had a g8 time :]

Good test scores and reputation. If you memorize exactly what the teachers tell you to memorize. turn in your work on time and test well, you'll get A's and matriculate with praise. Not much teaching going on here though. If you are actually seeking to learn, or seeking to learn how to learn, you'll be treated as if you're from another planet. The top students here would achieve exactly the same grades and test scores if they had stayed home in their bedrooms for four years, having no contact with the teachers. As for the rest of the students, many of the teachers honestly have no idea how to teach them and blame the students, rather than looking inward. In short, there really needs to be a housecleaning of the faculty. Sports teams of this century usually have disastrous seasons. Football and baseball have shown some signs of life in recent years, but consistently fall short of making the playoffs. The marching band is large, active and successful. The student newspaper, The Prospector, consistently wins awards, why being the question. Coverage of school activities and events is sparse, and the feature stories often have ideas and details which seem strangely like ones previously done elsewhere. The campus is overcrowded, and not all students are able to get lockers. Millions of dollars in renovations and something as basic as that is still an issue? Really? read more

love this school, the best experience ever. The principal the teachers, choir and all the classes are great, I had an overall great experience. thank you Cupertino. read more

its a good school! good teachers, good p.e., It's just a bit over crowded but otherwise it's a verry good school!

Typical modern high school emphasizing test taking over all else. Tough to get into a UC or CSU college from here as the top percentage of each class have taken all of the slots before even all of the students with 4.0s have been accommodated. Also a tough school to be a non-Asian at due to faculty and administration attitudes. read more