Las Lomitas School

I loved going to Las Lomitas! the teachers were amazing and they definitely enriched my childhood and grade school experience :)
Thinking about it makes me miss the third grade when the living was oh-​so-​easy. Ahhh the good life.
Send your kids here — its a beautiful, well kept campus, with great teachers & staff, and will give your child an excellent foundation in their schooling.

I went to Las Lomitas for kindergarten through 3^rd grade and LOVED it!!! This was a private-​school-​like-​public school experience. The teachers were (and continue to be!) unbelievable, the campus is gorgeous, the students enjoy fabulous resources, and the student and parent population is amazing. I believe that Las Lomitas and then La Entrada for grade 4 — 8 (with most of the same classmates) greatly prepared for high school academics. However, it did not prepare me for a large, un-«sheltered» high school (Menlo-​Atherton High School).
I am still in touch with some of my kindergarten classmates which I think is pretty amazing since I graduated from college a few years ago… Sometimes I wish I could re-​live my Las Lomitas days! I also attended Las Lomitas’s summer program which was great too!

If you live in this school’s attendance area you would be foolish not to send your child there. The teachers are dedicated people who can often be found spending time in their classrooms long after the children have left as well as on weekends. Their test scores are among the highest in the state. There are only two schools in this tiny district. One is K-​3 while the other serves grades 4 — 8. A large percentage of the 8^th graders eventually go on to excellent colleges upon graduating from high school four years later. This is a great indicator of the foundation they get in their K — 8 years.
I’ve never understood why parents who have access to these schools would want to spend 10’s of thousands of dollars to send their children to private schools when they can get just as good if not better for free!
Parent volunteers are not only welcome in the classroom but encouraged. Most people don’t realize that this takes extra effort on the part of the teacher to organize things for the parent volunteer. The school itself received an extreme make-​over of it’s facilities in addition to some new buildings on campus.
Real estate ads never fail to mention that they are in the Las Lomitas School District attendance area if in fact they are. It is a huge selling point. That should tell you something about the schools.

My kids aren’t students at Las Lomitas School, but we are frequent weekend visitors of its relatively modern and well-​kept playgrounds.
The climbing structures are targeted to the school’s 5 – 8 year old population, but as such, they make a perfect, challenging-​but-​not-​too-​dangerous option for my 4 year old. (The 8 foot drops are, however, a bit on the advanced/​dangerous side for my 2 year old). Like most area playgrounds, this one’s grounds are covered with wood chips — not my favorite surface, but workable.
The campus also supports a large-​but-​cracked asphalt area that includes basketball courts, but that we use for bike training. The campus’ many smooth ramps also provide a fun backdrop for both biking and tag games.
I can’t provide personal commentary on the school, but will pass along that I’ve heard only good things from local parents and that the school’s test scores paint the flattering picture you’d expect of its Menlo/​Atherton population: