Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle School

Best school in my opinion in Palo Alto.
Top notch teaching with great academic, athletic, and elective classes. The counselors, administrators, and principals are warm and welcoming at this school. The after school sports programs are wonderful too. The atmosphere is not too cliquey, or exclusive. All the people at JLS try to help out the school keep up a great campus.
JLS has had a huge renovation and the new 7^th grade buildings are amazing!
Being a student myself I rate this school very highly.

I was a student at this school but when I attended years ago it was called Ray Lyman Wilbur Jr. High School. It is now call JLS (Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle School) and has been name JLS for quite some time now.
JLS is one of three excellent middle schools in the Palo Alto Unified School District.
Top notch teaching
Superb teachers
Student support services
Excellent technology program
Wonderful music program
Modernized/​upgraded school facilities
Library
Computer lab
Gymnasium
Swimming pool
Tennis courts
Open playing fields (great place to walk a big dog on the weekend on leash)
Snack bar
Cafeteria
Home of the «Panthers’

Opened in 1953 as a Junior High School, called Ray Lyman Wilbur, with 7, 8, 9 grades, today this school, nicknamed ‘JLS’, is a middle school with 6, 7, and 8 grades.
Because it began as a junior high, there is a full sized gym and outdoor swimming pool. There are also tennis courts, which many middle schools do not have.
The architects designed the school so that the prevailing breezes cool the classrooms and north facing skylights provide most rooms with bright ambient lighting.
The faculty and staff are highly skilled professionals who regularly put in many hours after school to create innovative and imaginative lessons.
The industrial technology program is one of the best and the teacher was awarded best industrial technology teacher in America.
The music program reaches nearly every child at JLS. Free intrumental music lessons, even with free instruments, are offered to every student who wants them. The JLS combined marching band can be found practicing their style on the neighborhood streets near the school in the Spring as they prepare for their annual appearance in the May Fête Parade.
There is a full service kitchen and cafeteria that serves tasty and healthy food to the students.
This school feeds to Henry Gunn High School, one of the top public high schools in the nation.