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Phillips Brooks School offers a full-day preschool through 5th-grade learning community at the intersection of Menlo Park and Palo Alto, neighboring Stanford University.
By passionately pursuing core teaching beliefs that set us apart, we create the extraordinary every day at PBS. We guide children to cultivate their individual talents, explore, and dig deep while working and reflecting together.
In the process they discover their best selves they flourish.
The Phillips Brooks School, founded in 1978, is an independent,
coeducational day school located in Menlo Park, California. We
enroll 280 students in preschool through fifth grade. By
passionately pursuing core teaching beliefs that set us apart, we
create the extraordinary every day at PBS. We guide children to
cultivate their individual talents, explore and dig deep while
working and reflecting together. In the process they discover their
best selves they flourish.
You can feel it the moment you step on campus: this is a place
that`s open and vibrant, energized by students who are truly known
by each adult and peer around them. Here you`ll find engaged
children who are fulfilled as they probe meaningful interests and
challenged as they apply academic and social learning strategies
customized for their developmental trajectory. They emerge as
skilled, independent thinkers and empowered community builders who
thrive intellectually as well as socially. PBS students know how to
be learners, how to relate to one another and who they are.
Together with our inclusive, multi-cultural family community we
create a dynamic atmosphere of collaboration and support. With an
impressive roster of core and specialist teachers dedicated to
pre-school through fifth grade, and no more than two classrooms per
grade, every child and family is an integral partner in our
community. There`s an excitement here, a liberating, exhilarating
awareness that every day our students are journeying purposefully
to become all they are meant to be. Inspired learners. Inspiring
life. This is PBS.
Grades: NS-8 | 308 students1.9 miles 360 La Cuesta Dr Portola Valley, CA 94028 (650) 854-9065
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School Reviews
5.00 out of 5(2 reviews)
59/22/2023
I have two children in PBS, we are on our third year. Our youngest started in Pre-k and they truly did prepare her for Kinder and beyond (currently in 1st). All the teachers communicate and work together to make sure that each child is placed with the most suitable class the next year. They have specialists who are quick to provide any necessary resources your child might need. Both of my children have displayed an enormous leap in their confidence in speaking up, in developing friendships. It is so amazing to see how my children are truly cared for. My daughter still sees her previous teachers and gets excited to see them. We're really grateful to be a part of this community.
- Posted by Parent - Parent
59/15/2023
We are so lucky to be a part of this incredibly warm, welcoming, and down-to-earth school community! This is our second year at PBS; our daughter started in pre-school last year and is now in pre-K. She is so excited to go to school every morning and is disappointed that she can't go on the weekend! The campus comes alive with students' joy as they arrive at school each morning and it is a pleasure knowing she is spending her day surrounded by caring, loving, and engaged teachers who truly know my child. SEL is thoroughly integrated throughout the curriculum and they truly "walk the walk." PBS students are genuinely kind and caring humans who love learning. What more could any parent ask for?!
- Posted by Parent - PBS_Parent
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