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Palo Alto Unified, CA: schools, enrollment and spending
Palo Alto Unified runs 20 public schools with 10,209 students in grades K to 12. Its ratio of 17.1 students per teacher is 4.8 lower than the California figure of 21.9.
At a glance
- Schools
- 20
- Students
- 10,209
- Teachers (FTE)
- 597
- Students per teacher
- 17.1
- CA: 21.9 · US: 15.3
- Address
- 25 Churchill Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94306
- Phone
- (650)329-3700
- County
- Santa Clara County
- Locale
- City: Small
- Grades offered
- K to 12
- Agency type
- Regular local school district
- NCES district ID
- 0629610
- State district ID
- CA-4369641
- Total staff (FTE)
- 1,384
- School counselors (FTE)
- 21.0About 486 students per counselor.
- School administrators (FTE)
- 35.0
Students per teacher compared
This district17.1
California21.9
United States15.3
2020 finance data
From the F-33 School District Finance Survey for fiscal year 2020, in nominal dollars. Enrollment used for per-pupil figures is the finance survey count (10,754), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $289.0 million
- Federal revenue
- $9.4 million
- State revenue
- $33.4 million
- Local revenue
- $246.2 million
- Total spending
- $308.9 million
- Spending per pupil
- $28,720
- Salaries
- $162.2 million52.5% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $332.4 million
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 3.3%
- State: 11.5%
- Local: 85.2%
California overall
- Federal: 13.4%
- State: 51.6%
- Local: 35.0%
Spending per pupil compared
This district$28,720
California$17,799
United States$16,826
Schools in Palo Alto Unified
By level: 3 high, 3 middle, 13 elementary, 1 other. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| Addison Elementary | Elementary | K to 5 | 366 | 20.3 |
| Barron Park Elementary | Elementary | K to 5 | 278 | 18.5 |
| Duveneck Elementary | Elementary | K to 5 | 376 | 22.1 |
| El Carmelo Elementary | Elementary | K to 5 | 282 | 20.1 |
| Ellen Fletcher Middle | Middle | 6 to 8 | 572 | 14.3 |
| Escondido Elementary | Elementary | K to 5 | 432 | 18.0 |
| Fairmeadow Elementary | Elementary | K to 5 | 425 | 20.2 |
| Frank S. Greene Jr. Middle | Middle | 6 to 8 | 732 | 14.6 |
| Greendell | Elementary | K | 26 | 13.0 |
| Henry M. Gunn High | High | 9 to 12 | 1,643 | 16.6 |
| Herbert Hoover Elementary | Elementary | K to 5 | 389 | 20.5 |
| Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle | Middle | 6 to 8 | 1,002 | 15.0 |
| Juana Briones Elementary | Elementary | K to 5 | 260 | 20.0 |
| Lucille M. Nixon Elementary | Elementary | K to 5 | 350 | 19.4 |
| Ohlone Elementary | Elementary | K to 5 | 464 | 22.1 |
| Packard Children's Hospital/Stanford | Other | K to 12 | 15 | 5.0 |
| Palo Alto High | High | 9 to 12 | 1,891 | 16.9 |
| Palo Alto Middle College High | High | 9 to 12 | 45 | 11.2 |
| Palo Verde Elementary | Elementary | K to 5 | 334 | 19.6 |
| Walter Hays Elementary | Elementary | K to 5 | 305 | 21.8 |
Nearby and related
Other districts in Santa Clara County
- San Jose Unified 24,453 students
- East Side Union High 20,001 students
- Santa Clara Unified 14,448 students
- Cupertino Union 13,533 students
- Gilroy Unified 10,181 students
- Milpitas Unified 10,086 students
- Fremont Union High 9,457 students
- Oak Grove Elementary School District 8,578 students
- Campbell Union High 8,514 students
- Evergreen Elementary School District 8,474 students
- Morgan Hill Unified 7,829 students
- Alum Rock Union Elementary 7,259 students
- Campbell Union 6,120 students
- Berryessa Union Elementary 5,911 students
- Sunnyvale School District 5,764 students
More in California
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Finance figures are 2020 finance data in nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.