Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle

Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle, a sizable middle-grades school in Palo Alto, California, one of the schools within Palo Alto Unified, enrolls 1,002 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 52% bigger than the state mean of about 659.

Palo Alto Unified runs 20 schools in total, collectively educating 10,187 students. Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle logs that the largest single group is Asian, at 55% of enrollment; the rest is composed of 24% White, 10% multiracial, 10% Hispanic. That is considerably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

Looking at school resources, Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle lists 67 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 11% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. 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), Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 73.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 81.6%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Santa Clara County) logs that median household income runs about $164,281, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Santa Clara County runs 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), of which Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Fairmeadow Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle. On composite proficiency, Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 79.4%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 17%: 1,202 students in 2018 compared to 1,002 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 34% to 24% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.