Fairmeadow Elementary

Set in Palo Alto, California, Fairmeadow Elementary is an average-sized K-5 school, run under Palo Alto Unified. It hosts 425 students across grades K through 5.

Fairmeadow Elementary is one of 20 schools operated by Palo Alto Unified, a district that teaches 10,187 students overall.

On demographics, Fairmeadow Elementary records that the largest single group is Asian at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 29% White, 16% Hispanic, 6% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Fairmeadow Elementary has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 12% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Santa Clara County (around 37%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Fairmeadow Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 72.2%, the actual is 81.5%, a residual of +9.3 points.

In the surrounding community, Santa Clara County reports that median household income runs about $164,281, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Fairmeadow Elementary is one of 412 public schools in Santa Clara County (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students).

Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fairmeadow Elementary. On composite proficiency, Fairmeadow Elementary comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 79.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. Fairmeadow Elementary's enrollment has edged down 9% since 2018, when it stood at 469 (now 425). Over the same period, the Asian share expanded from 41% to 48%. Class-load math has loosened: from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 19.9:1 in 2025.

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