Milpitas

Residents enjoy various visual and performing arts

Milpitas (Spanish for ‘little milpas’) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, in Silicon Valley. The city’s origins lie in Rancho Milpitas, granted to Californio ranchero José María Alviso in 1835. Milpitas incorporated in 1954 and has become home to numerous high tech companies, as part of Silicon Valley.

Milpitas residents enjoy various visual and performing arts. The Milpitas Alliance for the Arts, founded in 1997, is an organization which promotes and funds murals, plays, sculptures, and many other forms of art. The “Art in Your Park” project has put many sculptures in local Milpitas parks, including a ceramic tower in Hillcrest Park, a sundial in Augustine Park, and a historical memorial in Murphy Park. The Celebrate Milpitas Festival is held annually every August, featuring vendors of crafts-type merchandise and providing local talent with a performance venue while selling visitors samplings of exotics like garlic fries or lumpia and even offerings from one or two Californian wineries. The suburb offers a rich variety of food options, including sit-down restaurants and fast food.

Milpitas is home to the largest Bay Area enclosed shopping mall (in terms of land area), the Great Mall of the Bay Area. The Great Mall is a part of the Simon mall branch and is the biggest mall/outlet shopping center in northern California. There are approximately 200 stores within the mall, with a total of 1,357,000 square feet of retail area.

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RATING* SCHOOL NAME GRADES SCHOOL TYPE
4 William Burnett Elementary School Preschool - 6th Grade Public
4 Anthony Spangler Elementary School Preschool - 6th Grade Public
5 John Sinnott Elementary School Preschool - 6th Grade Public
5 Curtner Elementary School Kindergarten - 6th Grade Public
5 Marshall Pomeroy Elementary School Kindergarten - 6th Grade Public
4 Alexander Rose Elementary School Kindergarten - 6th Grade Public
4 Pearl Zanker Elementary School Kindergarten - 6th Grade Public
4 Joseph Weller Elementary School Kindergarten - 6th Grade Public
5 Rancho Milpitas Middle School 7th Grade - 8th Grade Public
2 Calaveras Hills School 10th Grade - 12th Grade Public
N/A St. John The Baptist Catholic School Preschool - 8th Grade Catholic/Religious
N/A Day Star Montessori School Inc Milpitas Preschool - Kindergarten Private/Charter
N/A Milpitas Foothill Seventh-Day School Kindergarten - 8th Grade Private/Charter
N/A Merryhill School Elementary And Middle School Preschool - 8th Grade Private/Charter
N/A Life Connections Childrens Learning Center Preschool - Kindergarten Private/Charter
N/A Monarch Christian Academy Kindergarten - 5th Grade Private/Charter
N/A Little Flowers Montessori Preschool - Preschool Private/Charter
N/A Stratford School - Milpitas Great Mall Parkway Preschool - 8th Grade Private/Charter
N/A Stratford School - Milpitas Corning Kindergarten - 5th Grade Private/Charter
* School data provided by National Center for Education Statistics, Pitney Bowes, and GreatSchools. Intended for reference only. GreatSchools Ratings compare a school’s test performance to statewide results. To verify enrollment eligibility, contact the school or district directly.
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