# Palo Alto High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062961004596`
- **School name**: Palo Alto High
- **Location**: Palo Alto, CA 94301
- **Address**: 50 Embarcadero Rd.
- **District**: Palo Alto Unified (LEAID `0629610`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 37.43694, -122.15614
- **Phone**: (650)329-3701
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7128507 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Alto_High_School
- **Founded**: 1898

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,891
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 112
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 13.3%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Yellow
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: Yellow
  - math: Green
  - college_career: Blue
  - ela: Yellow
  - graduation: Blue

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 57.6% proficient — 429 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 52.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 95.6% (cohort of 499)
- **2021**: 95.0% (cohort of 540)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 348

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.3% (68 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.2% (3 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 10.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.4% — 182 students
- **English Learners**: 1.6% — 30 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 79 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 73 students
- **Autism**: 24 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 16 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 9 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 5 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $30,046
- **Federal share**: $1,022
- **State + local share**: $29,024
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,932
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $32,940,717
- **Federal share**: 2.8%
- **State share**: 11.1%
- **Local share**: 86.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $18,242,839

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $165,000
- **Poverty rate**: 12.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 80.5%
- **Unemployment**: 1.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $3,084
- **Foreign-born residents**: 34.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 3.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.3 miles (HEWLETT PACKARD 620 640 PAGE MILL ROAD)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 55
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.86 miles (PALO MOBILE ESTATES)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF PALO ALTO
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.31055 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **Addison Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 71.9% (this school: 54.8%)
- **Walter Hays Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 74.5% (this school: 54.8%)
- **Escondido Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 72.35% (this school: 54.8%)
- **Frank S. Greene Jr. Middle** — 1.2 mi away, 73.55% (this school: 54.8%)
- **Duveneck Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 75.1% (this school: 54.8%)

### graduation rate
- **East Palo Alto Academy** — 2.2 mi away, 98.4% (this school: 95.6%)
- **Henry M. Gunn High** — 2.8 mi away, 96.5% (this school: 95.6%)
- **Tide Academy** — 3.3 mi away, 100% (this school: 95.6%)
- **Mountain View High** — 7.2 mi away, 96.2% (this school: 95.6%)
- **Carlmont High** — 8.7 mi away, 97.3% (this school: 95.6%)

### math proficiency
- **Addison Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Walter Hays Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Escondido Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Frank S. Greene Jr. Middle** — 1.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Duveneck Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/palo-alto-high-palo-alto
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/palo-alto-high-palo-alto/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/palo-alto-high-palo-alto/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/palo-alto-high-palo-alto/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/palo-alto-high-palo-alto/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/palo-alto-high-palo-alto/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/palo-alto-high-palo-alto/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/palo-alto-high-palo-alto/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/palo-alto-high-palo-alto/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/palo-alto-high-palo-alto/workforce

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