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 "City of San Jose". Similarly, the city's website appears to use a mixture of both; for example, the "City of San José" in the text uses the mark but the "City of San Jose" logo image does not. San Jose's position in Silicon Valley triggered further economic and population growth. Results from the 1990 U.S. Census indicated that San Jose surpassed San Francisco as the most populous city in the Bay Area for the first time. This growth led to the highest housing-cost increase in the nation, 936% between 1976 and 2001. Efforts to increase density continued into the 1990s