Under the old district assignment plan, its students were to be fed into William Hopkins Junior High School, which also scored in the high 800s, and then to the district's top-scoring Mission San Jose High School. All three schools are predominately comprised of Asian American and white students. After much uproar, the parents sued the district as well as the five members of the school board and the district superintendent. Mission High School is a high performing school compared to Irvington or Kennedy. Yew says that the parents' personal account of the racial tension that had arisen during the boundary battle led parents to believe that the change was racially motivated.
Some schools are very over crowded.
According to Jones, there are currently 1,100 students attending Weibel Elementary, though it can only accommodate 840 students. Mission High, which is supposed to accommodate 1,790 students, currently has 2,200 students enrolled. Furthermore, she says, students at Weibel are the ones farthest from Mission High School and closest to Irvington High. To get the school attendance down to where it should be, students just needed to be reshuffled, Jones says. For Weibel, we have to take some students out of the Mission attendance area.