Packard Children's Hospital/Stanford

Packard Children's Hospital/Stanford operates as a rural-scale combined-grade school in Palo Alto, California, part of Palo Alto Unified. Current enrollment sits at 15 students spanning grades K through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 602 students each, so Packard Children's Hospital/Stanford sits 98% leaner than that benchmark.

Palo Alto Unified comprises 20 schools with combined enrollment of 10,187 students; Packard Children's Hospital/Stanford is among them.

On the student-mix side, Packard Children's Hospital/Stanford shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 27% White, 13% multiracial, 7% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

Looking at school resources, Packard Children's Hospital/Stanford reports 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 5.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.6:1 average. Roughly 20% of students at Packard Children's Hospital/Stanford qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Santa Clara County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

In the broader community, census data for Santa Clara County shows the typical household earns roughly $164,281 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Santa Clara County's 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), Packard Children's Hospital/Stanford is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Oak Knoll Elementary, roughly 1.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Packard Children's Hospital/Stanford operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Packard Children's Hospital/Stanford's enrollment has ticked down 25% since 2018, when it stood at 20 (now 15). The Asian share of enrollment shrank from 20% to 7% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 3.3:1 in 2018 to 5.0:1 today.

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