Harker Middle School
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Upper School: 500 Saratoga Ave. Middle School: 3800 Blackford Ave. Lower School: 4300 Bucknall Rd. Preschool: 4525 Union Ave. San Jose, California United States |
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| Coordinates | 37°18′48″N 121°58′08″W / 37.31322°N 121.9689°WCoordinates: 37°18′48″N 121°58′08″W / 37.31322°N 121.9689°W |
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| Type | Independent |
| Motto | K through Life |
| Established | 1893 as Manzanita Hall 1998 as the Harker School |
| Head of school | Brian Yager |
| Faculty | 450 |
| Grades | PreK-12 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Enrollment | Upper School: 720 |
| Color(s) | Green and White |
| Mascot | Eagle |
| Tuition | Upper School: $45,877 Middle School: $42,237 Lower School: $34,678 Preschool: $29,561 |
| Website | www.harker.org |
The Harker School (often referred to as "Harker") is a private, co-educational, non-profit school in San Jose, California, United States. Founded in 1893 as Manzanita Hall by Frank Cramer in Palo Alto, Harker now has four campuses: Union, Bucknall, Blackford, and Saratoga, named after the streets on which they lie. The Union campus houses the Preschool, the Bucknall campus houses the Lower School (kindergarten through grade 5), the Blackford campus houses the Middle School (grades 6 through 8), and the Saratoga campus houses the Upper School (grades 9 through 12).
The upper school, offering grades 9 through 12, is located on the Saratoga Avenue campus. The campus was previously home to an all-girls school, Mother Butler Memorial High School, which merged with Archbishop Mitty High School in 1969.
The upper school was added to the K-8 program in 1998, with the first class of graduates in 2002.
Currently, there are about 800 students in the upper school.
The school's sports mascot is an eagle, as referenced in the school song lyrics: "We can make a difference, you and I / Ride on wings of eagles to the sky."
Harker has the highest ranking by the College Board for Advanced Placement test scores for AP Computer Science, AP Psychology, AP Chemistry, AP Microeconomics, and AP Calculus. In May 2014, 1,536 examinations were written by 513 students in grades 9–12. Scores of 4 and 5: 88 percent; scores of 3, 4 or 5: 97 percent. Harker had 10 perfect scores in AP Microeconomics in 2012.
One Harker student was named to the U.S. team for the International Math Olympiad (IMO) in 2006, and won a silver medal in Slovenia.
Three Harker students were named to the U.S. team for the International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) in 2004, 2009 and 2014, respectively, and all won gold medals in 2004 in the Republic of Korea, in 2009 in Mexico and in 2014 in Kazakhstan.
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