Palo Alto High School
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Palo Alto High School, affectionately known as Paly, was built in September, 1894. Its six-room, $10,000 schoolhouse was located on the upper floor of Channing School, and allowed for three teachers to teach 126 students. Today, it is a school of 1700 students with a campus on land once part of Stanford University at 50 Embarcadero Rd.
[edit] History
In its June 14, 1895 issue, the Palo Alto Statement reported, "Parents with children looking forward to the University will do well to consider its (Palo Alto High's) unusual educational advantages.
The report noted that when enrollment grew to 35 pupils, tuition dropped from $6 per month to $5. Half the tuition was paid by the parents and the other half by local merchants.
Students could choose between two courses of study, with emphasis on the classics (Greek and Latin) or modern languages (French and German). And because the course of study was arranged under the immediate supervision of Stanford University, all graduates were admitted to the university without examination.
There weren't quite enough students to make up a football squad, so the first students had to content themselves with baseball.
[edit] Publications
- The Campanile is Paly's school print publication. It claims one of the largest circulations of any high school newspaper in the Bay Area. It prints around 20 broadsheet pages once every three weeks. It has won four Pacemaker awards and also a West regional award for editorial excellence from Time Magazine.
- Verde is Paly's school magazine publication, published five times each year. Verde is the widest distributed student-run magazine in the nation, and has won numerous Pacemaker and Gold Crown awards for scholastic journalism, including the 2005 Gold Crown award in the Newspaper category. In 2006 Verde won the Best in Show at National Journalism Convention held in San Francisco.
- The Paly 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 2007, 2006, 2005 and 2004, and was a finalist for the same award in 2003. The Voice can be accessed at voice.paly.net.
- 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. It has recently come under fire from Campanile for its unreliability, an issue highlighted by the occasional missed broadcasts due to technical difficulties. Their conflict has manifested in a cartoon in the Campanile and a subsequent InFocus segment.
- Calliope is Paly's literary magazine, published once or twice a year. It is also available online at calliope.paly.net.
