Palo Verde Elementary

For the 2026-27 school year, generous donations from parents and community members have allowed PiE to provide $109,408.00 to Palo Verde. These funds will be used to pay for:

  • General classroom instructional assistants, so that every child has one more person available to support his/her needs in the classroom. The aides not only assist students, but facilitate teaching in the classroom so that students can spend more time in small groups and one-on-one with the teacher
  • Fund the Spectra Art program, so that every child can have regular access to art lessons, building creativity and confidence
  • Pay for sessions of Junior Museum and Zoo hands-on experiential science instruction linked to the PAUSD curriculum
  • Fund a counselor who works with students one-on-one or in small groups to help facilitate and optimize classroom and social-emotional skills in students
  • Through a grant to the district, PiE also helps fund the music and dance programs for all elementary schools

Your 2026-27 PiE Representative are Charley Mulugeta, and Ran Ran. Questions? Please email them at paloverde@papie.org.

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School Address & Phone Number:

3450 Louis Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 (650) 856-1672

“The student experience at Palo Verde is greatly enriched because of the support of PiE funding. We say, ‘PiE pays for people’ and we know that it is the interactions between people that matter most for a students’ learning, growth, and development. On behalf of the entire Palo Verde community, thank you for your donations to PiE”

Elsa Chen, Principal