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Palo Alto Senior High School, commonly referred to locally as "Paly", [4] is a comprehensive public high school in Palo Alto, California. Operated by the Palo Alto Unified School District , the school is one of two high schools in the district, the other being across town: Gunn High School , with which Paly has a rivalry.
The school was founded in 1996 by Bischof and Helen Kim, the vice principal, who met while students at Stanford University. [3] It began with eight students who were taught at a picnic table in an East Palo Alto park, [1] [3] moving the next year to a house, [1] then to offices, and finally to 1.6 acres of donated land where it was first housed in temporary buildings. [3]
The Palo Alto Adult School is part of the North Santa Clara County Student Transition Consortium (STC), with nearby De Anza College, Foothill College, Mountain View Los Altos Adult Education, and Sunnyvale–Cupertino Adult Education. [42] It has classes at seven locations within the borders of the Palo Alto Unified School District. [43]
MaxPreps is a site for U.S. High School sports information, and can be searched by mascot name as well as school name, but the data is not kept up to date so it is only a starting place. MascotDB is a searchable database of mascots from Pro to High School. List of Semi-Pro Football Teams
Stanford's teams unofficially reverted to using the name "Cardinal", the color which represented the school before 1930. [8] From 1972 until 1981, Stanford’s official nickname was the Cardinal, but, during this time, there was debate among students and administrators concerning what the mascot and team name should be.
Kehillah Jewish High School – a high school with both secular and Jewish studies founded in 2002 in San Jose and moved to Palo Alto in 2005. [96] Keys School – a co-ed, independent K-8 school [97] Living Wisdom School – a K-8 school [98] Meira Academy – an Orthodox Jewish all-girls high school, founded in 2011 [99]
The school opened in 1958 with 629 students. By 1964 enrollment had risen to 1,285. [1]However, white flight from the city of East Palo Alto led to a rapid increase in the percentage of African American students during the 1960s; [2] both the Congress of Racial Equality and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People expressed concern about de facto segregation. [1]
Crestmoor High School: San Bruno: 1980 Peninsula High School continuation school and a municipal courthouse Ellwood P. Cubberley High School: Palo Alto: 1979 Cubberley Community Center: Cypress Grove Charter High School for Arts and Sciences Carmel: 2006 [13] Excelsior High School: Norwalk: 1981 Norwalk Adult School: Fermin Lasuen High School ...