Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle School

Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle School is a middle school

Middle school

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 located at 480 East Meadow Dr., Palo Alto, CA 94306. 2007 STAR test results showed an attendance of 870 students, in grades 6 through 8. It was originally named Ray Lyman Wilbur Junior High School after Ray Lyman Wilbur

Ray Lyman Wilbur

Ray Lyman Wilbur was an American medical doctor who served as the third president of Stanford University and the 31st United States Secretary of the Interior.-Early life:...

. After the other two middle schools in the district closed due to lack of enrollment, students transferred to the school, which was renamed Jane Lathrop Stanford (abbreviated JLS) after Jane Stanford

Jane Stanford

Jane Stanford was the co-founder of Stanford University with her husband, Leland Stanford, whom she wed in 1850. She was the daughter of a shopkeeper and lived on Washington Avenue in Albany, New York, before her marriage...

, who was the wife of Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

 founder Leland Stanford

Leland Stanford

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The land that Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle School and the adjoining Fairmeadow Elementary School now sit on were once owned by three farmers by the name of Diss. The farmers sold their land to the real-estate developer Joseph Eichler

Joseph Eichler

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, who later donated the land to the district.

Terman Middle School

Terman Middle School is located at 655 Arastradero Road in Palo Alto. The school mascot is the tiger

Tiger

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The original name of the school located on the site was Terman Junior High School (named after Lewis Madison Terman), unrelated to the school currently at the site.

The district placed a new middle school named Terman Middle School at the site in 1999 to deal with rising enrollment. The first school year was 2001-2002.
It was named after both Terman and his son Frederick Terman

Frederick Terman

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. The relocation was met with great controversy by local residents as the district overtook the land by eminent domain

Eminent domain

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 from the residing Jewish Community Center.

Elementary schools

• Addison Elementary School
• Duveneck Elementary School (formerly Green Gables)
• El Carmelo Elementary School
• Escondido Elementary School
• Fairmeadow Elementary School
• Barron Park Elementary School
• Juana Briones Elementary School
• Hoover Elementary School (formerly located on Middlefield Road at Hoover Park)
• Lucille Nixon Elementary School
• Ohlone Elementary School (formerly on E. Charleston, where Hoover is now located)
• Palo Verde Elementary School (called Sequoyah from 1976 to 1983)
• Walter Hays Elementary School
  Walter Hays School
  Walter Hays School is an elementary school in Palo Alto, California at the intersection of Middlefield Road and Embarcadero Road. Part of the Palo Alto Unified School District, it was named after a Presbyterian minister who was instrumental in the creation of Palo Alto High School. Graduates of...
  
  

Past schools in the district

• Cubberley High School (1956–1979), now the Cubberley Community Center
  Cubberley Community Center
  Cubberley Community Center is a community center in Palo Alto, California that is housed on the campus of the former Cubberley High School, which opened in the fall of 1956 and closed in 1979 as a result of budget cuts from California Proposition 13...
  
  

At its peak in 1967, Palo Alto had 22 K-6 elementary schools. Of those, these schools are closed:

• Crescent Park Elementary School (?-1983), razed for housing development
• De Anza Elementary School - razed for housing development
• Elizabeth Van Auken Elementary School - still stands, now the site of the Ohlone Elementary magnet school
• Garland Elementary School - still stands, currently leased to a private school. There are plans to reopen it as a public school in 2010.
• Greendell Elementary School - still stands, currently operates other school district programs
• Lytton Elementary School - razed for development
• Ortega Elementary School - razed for housing development. Was the site of the Jewish Community Center from 1976 to 1983 before Terman.
• Ross Road Elementary School - razed for housing development. Was the site of the Mayfield Continuation School.
• Ventura Elementary School - now the Ventura Community Center under the Parks and Recreation Department

External links

• Official site