Palo Alto High School

Palo Alto Senior High School is the older of the two high schools in Palo Alto, California, United States. Founded in 1898, today its enrollment is near 1700 students. "Paly," as the school is known locally, has a long history of scholastic excellence; in 2002 Newsweek ranked it among the top 200 public high schools in the United States, based on test scores. http://www.csh.k12.ny.us/highschool/data/TheTopHighSchools.htm. The school also carries on a distinguished athletic tradition, marked in recent years by an intense rivalry with crosstown foe Gunn.

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High schools - Palo Alto - California - United States - 1898 - 2002 - Newsweek - Rivalry - Gunn

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Paly is situated on the older, northern side of Palo Alto. The western boundary of the campus is El Camino Real, on the other side of which stands Stanford Stadium, and beyond it the campus of Stanford University. The north end of Paly runs along Embarcadero Road, from which the main parking lot is accessible; across the street lies the Town & Country Village shopping center. Students take full advantage of their proximity to “T&C,” as they call it, and non-summer lunch hours will generally find them giving brisk business to its eateries. In contrast, the eastern edge of the Paly campus abuts the Caltrain rail tracks, which separate the school from Alma Street. Commuter trains thunder by on their route between San Jose and San Francisco, their window-rattling passage routinely ignored by all but the newest students and teachers. The eastern side of the school grounds, with its expanses of athletic fields, reaches its end at Churchill Avenue and the leafy residential area beyond. What would be the extreme southern corner of the campus is occupied by the main offices of the Palo Alto Unified School District.

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El Camino Real - Stanford Stadium - Stanford University - Parking lot - Town & Country Village - Caltrain - Rail tracks - Alma Street - San Jose - San Francisco - Palo Alto Unified School District

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The school can reached by the VTA bus line 22 along El Camino Real, the VTA's DB71 Dumbarton Express bus, the SamTrans bus line KX, Stanford's free Marguerite shuttle, Caltrain's Palo Alto station, as well as by the Palo Alto city shuttle, which runs along Embarcadero Road.

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VTA - Dumbarton - SamTrans

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The school mascot is the Viking.

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