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Palo Alto High School

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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. [1]. 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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The Palo Alto High School sign

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 Town and Country and lunch hours during the school year 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; in recent years, the Paly community has been shaken by several students' suicide (by jumping into oncoming trains) at the Alma Street-Churchill Avenue crossing. 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.

The school can reached by the VTA bus line 22 along El Camino Real, the 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.

The school mascot is the Viking.



Publications

 
Aerial photo of Palo Alto High School.
  • Calliope is Paly's literary magazine, published once or twice a year. It is also available online at [2].
  • The Campanile is Paly's best and most famous publication. It claims the largest circulation of any high school newspaper in the Bay Area. It is published once every three weeks. It has won four Pacemaker awards and also a West regional award for editorial excellence from TIME magazine.
  • InFocus is Paly's television news channel. It is broadcast five days a week during fourth period, and available only on Paly campus and online at voice.paly.net
  • Verde is Paly's school magazine, published five times each year. It has won Pacemaker and Gold Crown awards for scholastic journalism.
  • Voice, launched in the 2002-3 school year, is Paly's online news source. It features searchable archives of all of the above publications as well as exclusive online content. In the spring of 2005 the site won both the People's Voice and Overall Webby Award in the "Student" category, a rare accomplishment for a high school level Internet site. The Voice was also one of the national Online Pacemaker award recipients in 2005 and 2004, and was a finalist for the same award in 2003. The Voice can be accessed at [3].

Notable alumni

See also

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