Emerson School is an accelerated K-8 educational environment in which students of diverse backgrounds achieve, thrive, and learn to understand the world in which we live.  While insisting on academic excellence, the school promotes the development of the whole child by encouraging independence, self-reliance, exploration, and the joy of learning.  Personal responsibility, creativity, and self-esteem are fundamental goals of the Emerson experience.

 Emerson School is located at 2800 West Bayshore Road in Palo Alto. 

Tel. 650.424.1221

Tracy Bootz, Administrator, tbootz@headsup.org

Affiliated Programs:

Hacienda School –Grades 1-8.  Hacienda School brings out the extraordinary in every child, individualized curriculum, superior academic preparation and nurturing tomorrows’ leaders. 

 HeadsUp! Child Development Centers in Palo Alto, San Jose and Pleasanton.  HeadsUp! is a dynamic, challenging, loving environment for Infants, Toddlers, preschoolers and Kindergartners.