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Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 5

Escondido Elementary, Stanford, CA

Escondido Elementary is a public elementary school in Stanford, part of Palo Alto Unified. It enrolled 432 students in 2024-25, with 18.0 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
432
Teachers (FTE)
24.0
Students per teacher
18.0
Grades
K to 5

This school's ratio is 0.9 higher than the district figure of 17.1. The California average across schools is 21.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school18.0
District17.1
California21.9
United States15.3

School details

Address
890 Escondido Rd., Stanford, CA 94305
Phone
(650)856-1337
District
Palo Alto Unified
County
Santa Clara County
Level
Elementary
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Suburb: Large
NCES school ID
062961004584
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
78
Reduced-price lunch
11
Free or reduced-price lunch
8920.6% of enrollment.
Direct certification
51Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
No

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other elementary schools in Palo Alto Unified

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.