Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 5
Walter Hays Elementary, Palo Alto, CA
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 305
- Teachers (FTE)
- 14.0
- Students per teacher
- 21.8
- Grades
- K to 5
This school's ratio is 4.7 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.
School details
- Address
- 1525 Middlefield Rd., Palo Alto, CA 94301
- Phone
- (650)322-5956
- District
- Palo Alto Unified
- County
- Santa Clara County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- City: Small
- NCES school ID
- 062961004588
School meals
- Free lunch
- 47
- Reduced-price lunch
- 5
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 5217.0% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 29Students 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
- Ohlone Elementary 464 students
- Escondido Elementary 432 students
- Fairmeadow Elementary 425 students
- Herbert Hoover Elementary 389 students
- Duveneck Elementary 376 students
- Addison Elementary 366 students
- Lucille M. Nixon Elementary 350 students
- Palo Verde Elementary 334 students
- El Carmelo Elementary 282 students
- Barron Park Elementary 278 students
- Juana Briones Elementary 260 students
- Greendell 26 students
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.