High · California
Henry M. Gunn High
Henry M. Gunn High, a public high school in Palo Alto, California: grades 9–12, 1,643 students, 16.5 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Palo Alto Unified.
Size and class size
Compared with high schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 1,643
- Teachers (FTE)
- 99.8
- Students per teacher
- 16.5
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
Fewer students per teacher than 64% of high schools in California
Median 19.1 · 2,120 schools compared
More students per teacher than 65% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 77% of high schools in California
Median 462 · 2,126 schools compared
Larger than 87% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
State test results
No state test results published for this school: state tests cover grades 3–8, and small groups are not published.
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 9–12
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Area
- Small city
- Run by
- Palo Alto Unified
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Palo Alto Unified.
Location
- Address
- 780 Arastradero Rd., Palo Alto, CA 94306
- Phone
- (650)354-8200
- City or town
- Palo Alto
- County
- Santa Clara County
Nearby high schools
The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9–12 | 2,170 | 18.1 | |
| 9–12 | 45 | 11.3 | |
| 9–12 | 1,891 | 16.8 | |
East Palo Alto AcademyCharter | 9–12 | 278 | 13.0 |
Oxford Day AcademyCharterFree meals for all | 9–12 | 108 | 43.0 |
KIPP Esperanza HighCharterFree meals for all | 9–12 | 194 | 10.2 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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