Walter Hays Elementary

Children can learn basketball at Walter Hays Elementary.

Students love the sandy playground at Walter Hays Elementary.

Walter Hays Elementary

Public Elementary School | Grade K-5

1525 Middlefield Rd, Palo Alto, CA

Community Center Neighborhood

Palo Alto Unified School District

269 Students

A+

Niche Grade

GreatSchools Rating

School Details

Head of School
Mary Bussmann

Student Teacher Ratio
20:1

Math Proficiency
72%

Reading Proficiency
72%

Academics

A+

Teachers

Source: Niche

Niche Grade Details

Academics

Reading Proficiency

72%

Math Proficiency

72%

Teachers

Student Teacher Ratio

20:1

Teachers

Full Time Teachers

Teachers in First or Second Year

3.9%

Test Scores

Equity

Student Progress

Source: GreatSchools

GreatSchools Rating Details

Student Diversity

Male

56.5%

Female

43.5%

Asian or Pacific Islander

32.7%

White

31.3%

Hispanic

19.7%

Two or more races

12.6%

Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander

Black

1.7%

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School Rankings

#60 Best Public ES in California

Source: Niche

Specialty School Programs

Free/Reduced Lunch Offered

This School’s Reviews

5.0 parent

1/18/2025

Our family absolutely adores this gem of a school. It is blessed with experienced teachers in every grade who continuously look for opportunities to develop their curriculum and also how to make learning more engaging. We continue to benefit from generous funding by the PTA and PiE, which bring spec...

5.0 parent

1/23/2024

Walter Hays is a fantastic school that offers a lot of opportunities to all students. Our child is in Special Education and we feel that her progress is remarkable. Additional Parent organized activities (Makerspace for sewing, sawing and art work, Ice Skating, etc.) make it fun for the families to...

4.0 parent

1/23/2019

Walter Hays does the best it can do given it is a public school in an extremely involved, well funded, wealthy area. The PTA and PiE funding allows for lots of STEM and Arts education as well as support via Aids for in class support of children with learning differences or needing support as second...

4.0 parent

8/15/2015

Walter Hayes is a good school. In California. You have teachers here who are well compensated and very accomplished. In my opinion, that doesn't exactly translate to being awesome. We went to this school from 1st grade to 5th grade. I have family in public schools in Texas that frankly put this scho...

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$3.9M - $8.4M

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Average Home Value

$4,450,396

Median Lot Size

6,969 Sq Ft

% Renters

22%

Household Income

$229,726

% of College Grads

90.9%

Median Age

Average House Size

2,252 Sq Ft

% Commercial Property

7.7%

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