San Jose Unified School District San Jose Unified School District San José Unified School District is a TK-12 school district in Santa Clara County, California and covers a large portion of the city of San Jose, California. The district has more than 3,000 full-time employees serving approximately 30,000 students in 41 schools from downtown San José in the north to the Almaden Valley in the south. San José Unified's vision is "preparing today’s students to be the thinkers, leaders, and creators of tomorrow." The district's mission is to "elevate opportunities for all". San Jose City School District was founded in 1853 and renamed San Jose
San Jose, California (which separate the South Bay from the Pacific Coast) flowing north through San Jose, ending in the San Francisco Bay at Alviso. Along the southern part of the river is the neighborhood of Almaden Valley, originally named for the mercury mines which produced mercury needed for gold extraction from quartz during the California Gold Rush as well as mercury fulminate blasting caps and detonators for the U.S. military from 1870 to 1945. East of the Guadalupe River, Coyote Creek also flows to south San Francisco Bay and originates on Mount Sizer near Henry W. Coe State Park and the surrounding