The Phillips Brooks School is an independent, coeducational, preschool-grade 5 day school located in

Menlo Park, California Menlo Park is a city at the eastern edge of San Mateo County within the San Francisco Bay Area of California in the United States. It is bordered by San Francisco Bay on the north and east; East Palo Alto, Palo Alto, and Stanford to the south ...

. The school is commonly known as PBS and was founded in 1978 by a group of teachers and administrators who split off from the nearby Trinity School. The enrollment of PBS is 270 students. Admission to PBS is highly competitive due to the small class size and excellent reputation of the school. The school has the smallest class sizes of any school of its kind in the area. Phillips Brooks School has actively participated in efforts to make classrooms more attuned to the needs of students, including a focus on identifying the unique ways in which each child learns. The school is named after

Phillips Brooks Phillips Brooks (December 13, 1835January 23, 1893) was an American Episcopal clergyman and author, long the Rector of Boston's Trinity Church and briefly Bishop of Massachusetts. He wrote the lyrics of the Christmas hymn, " O Little Town o ...

Potential second campus

Phillips Brooks School had purchased a lot in

Woodside, California Woodside is a small incorporated town in San Mateo County, California, United States, on the San Francisco Peninsula. Woodside is among the wealthiest communities in the United States, home to many technology billionaires and investment manager ...

along Interstate 280 that it planned to redevelop into a second campus. Environmentalists expressed concern that the plans would result in the loss of 1,000 oak trees. Discord in the community regarding the school's development plans was a major issue in the 2001 Woodside Town Council elections.Andrea Gemmet
"Voter Guide 2001: Contentious campaign for Woodside council"
''The Almanac'', October 24, 2001 Ultimately the city government blocked the plans. As reported in the local newspaper ''The Almanac'':

School officials balked over the town's open space easement language, saying it was too restrictive and would make building and operating the campus unfeasible. Town staff countered that Phillips Brooks' easement language was too full of loopholes and would not protect areas of pristine open space. ... The project was denied on a 4-3 vote.Andrea Gemmet

''The Almanac'', October 2, 2002, via Green Foothills, archived fro

on September 12, 2003

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Phillips Brooks SchoolNational Center for Education Statistics data Phillips Brooks School
{{Menlo Park, California Education in San Mateo County, California Private elementary schools in California Menlo Park, California