Valley Christian High School is a Christian secondary school located in San Jose, California. It was founded in 1956 by Dave Wallace. As of 2011, the school principal is Mark A. Lodewyk. As of the fall of 1999, the Valley Christian High School and Junior High School have been relocated to the Skyway Campus located in south San Jose after the reopening of Branham High School.
Valley Christian School has two campuses in San Jose. An elementary school campus called "Leigh" and a Junior and Senior High School campus called "Skyway."
The skyway campus is home to the endangered Dudleya setchellii succulent plant and students are part of the conservation program to protect the Santa Clara Valley dudleya and its beautiful blooms.
Athletics
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Since its founding, Valley Christian has offered a wide variety of sports for its students, currently with over 53 different teams. The Warriors are the only non-Catholic members of the West Catholic Athletic League, which they joined in 2003. The school mascot is the "warrior."
AMSE
AMSE is Valley Christian's Applied Math, Science and Engineering programs. Valley Christian uses this program to highlight its robotics program, satellite tracking and student lead experiments send to the ISS station.
Conservatory
Valley Christian offers a four year study program into eight areas of the arts: Music, Visual Arts, Musical Theatre, Dance Arts, New Media Studies, Theatre Arts, Integrated Arts, and Theatrical Design and Technology. In 2011 a 55,000-square-foot Arts Conservatory building was built at the Skyway campus.
Notable alumni
- Ariel Hsing, national champion of table tennis
- Mike Rouse, Major League Baseball shortstop for Cleveland Indians
- Joy Williams, Christian vocalist, member of The Civil Wars and two-time Grammy Award winner
- JJ Heller, Christian folk singer; songs that charted "Your Hands" (2008, Painted Red), "What Love Really Means" (When I'm with You) both peaked at number 13
- Ronnie Harris, wide receiver, Seattle Seahawks, Atlanta Falcons
- Chantelle Paige (musician), member of R&B group Flipsyde
- Kevin Jurovich, wide receiver, San Francisco 49ers
- Byron Marshall, running back, Philadelphia Eagles
- Rusty Varenkamp, GMA Dove Award-winning music producer
References
External links
- Valley Christian Schools website (San Jose)
