Frank S. Greene Jr. Middle

Frank S. Greene Jr. Middle is a reasonably sized middle school in Palo Alto, California, run under Palo Alto Unified. The school caters to 732 students in grades 6 through 8.

Palo Alto Unified comprises 20 schools with combined enrollment of 10,187 students; Frank S. Greene Jr. Middle is among them.

In terms of who attends, Frank S. Greene Jr. Middle logs that the largest single group is Asian at 33%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 28% White, 23% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 2% Pacific Islander.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Roughly 17% of students at Frank S. Greene Jr. Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Santa Clara County (around 37%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Frank S. Greene Jr. Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 69.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 76.3%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Santa Clara County put the typical household earns roughly $164,281 per year, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Santa Clara County runs 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), of which Frank S. Greene Jr. Middle is one.

Walter Hays Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Frank S. Greene Jr. Middle. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Frank S. Greene Jr. Middle ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 77.8%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 35%: 1,119 students in 2018 compared to 732 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 44% to 28%.

Inside the community feed, members of the Frank S. Greene Jr. Middle community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.