[3] San José High School opened in 1863 in a room above Orbon's flour store at 210 South 1st Street.

[4] On January 1, 1868, it moved to a purpose-built $20,000 building at Santa Clara and 7th Streets that also housed Horace Mann Elementary.

The 1898 building was three stories, of brick and stone, and cost $75,000; it was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and after the school shared facilities for two years with [Lincoln Elementary School on Almaden Ave and Vine Street(San Jose, California), it moved back to a replacement building on the same site, which was used from 1908 to 1951.

[4] This high school campus was designed by Pasadena architect F. S. Allen in Mission Revival style and cost $175,000; it housed different subjects in separate buildings connected by arcades forming courtyards.

[6] In 1951, intending to expand the college, the State of California rescinded its permission for the high school to be located on the San José State campus, and the school moved in 1952 to its present location at the corner of 24th and Julian Streets.