Students now have the privilege of accessing their lockers at night. After filling all of the closed areas on campus, the administration resorted to installing lockers just about anywhere there was space. Basking in the California sun, many Mission students use lunch time to cram for rigorous exams. Mission is known for being an extremely academic school, and the average test scores shows Mission lives up to its name. Where the academics leave off, the sports pick up.
Mission boasts a highly successful running team as well as dominating boys and girl's tennis team.
And while our football team is working on it, our boy's basketball team is the reigning Mission Valley Athletic League champions. To top it off, the Warrior wrestling team always strikes fear in the hearts of all the competing wrestlers. Being called Warriors is somewhat misleading, after all our mascot is now the Peaks. Representing the Fremont landmark, Mission Peak, which stand 1754 feet tall, the Warriors gave up their Native American mascot for the politically correct Peak image only a year ago. Whatever has drawn attention to Mission San Jose High hasn't gone away.