We present these academic results by graduates of the K-8 Living Wisdom School in Palo Alto, California as evidence of the validity of the Education for Life approach to learning.
We invited recent Palo Alto LWS graduates (2011-2014) to share their high school and college grade-point averages. The Palo Alto school has 70-75 students in nine grades, K-8. On average, 4-8 students graduate per year; thus these 20 responses over the last four years are representative.
| Presentation High (San Jose) | 4.7 |
| Mountain View High | 4.5 |
| Los Altos High | 4.5 |
| Harker School (San Jose) | 4.18 |
| Carlmont High (Belmont) | 4.1 |
| Summit Prep (Redwood City) | 4.1 |
| Loyola Marymount University (Los Angeles) | 4.1 |
| Los Altos High | 4.0 |
| Menlo College Prep (Menlo Park) | 4.0 |
| Mid-Peninsula High (Menlo Park) | 4.0 |
| Palo Alto High | 4.0 |
| Harker School (San Jose) | 3.9 |
| Woodside Priory School, Bowdoin College | 3.825 |
| Menlo College Prep | 3.706 |
| San Lorenzo High | 3.7 |
| Gunn High (Palo Alto) | 3.6 |
| Gunn High, Cornell University | 3.5 |
| Summit Prep (Redwood City) | 3.5 |
| Bay High School (San Francisco) | 3.23 |
| Mid-Peninsula High (Menlo Park) | 2.7 |
LWS graduates’ average high school GPA (2011-18) was: 3.85
LWS alumni have graduated from these high schools:
Bay School in San Francisco
Carlmont High School
Everest High School
Gunn High School
Harker School
Los Altos High School
Menlo College Prep
Menlo-Atherton High School
Mid-Peninsula High School
Mountain View High School
Palo Alto High School
Pinewood School
Presentation High School
San Lorenzo High School
Summit Prep High School
Woodside Priory
LWS alumni have graduated from these colleges:
Bowdoin College
Brooks Institute of Photography
Cal Poly
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dominican University
Dublin University, Ireland
Georgetown University
Humboldt State University
London College, UK
Loyola Marymount University
New York University
Oberlin College
Portland State University
San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Santa Clara University
School of Visual Arts, New York
Stanford University
UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz, UC Santa Barbara
University of Bremen, Germany
University of Michigan
University of San Francisco
University of Washington (Ross School of Business)
LWS graduates’ college majors:
Anthropology
Art
Computer Science
Culinary Arts
Economics
Education
Engineering
Film
Genetics
Library Science
Marketing
Mathematics
Medicine
Music
Photography
Recent Living Wisdom High School Graduates Received Their Degrees:
Cal Poly (Psychology)
Chapman University (Computer Science, Cyber-Security)
San Jose State University (Marine Biology)
Santa Clara University (Political Science; Pre-Law)
UC San Diego (Psychology)
Graduates of Living Wisdom High School in Palo Alto have been accepted at (2018-2021):
Bard College at Simon’s Rock
Boston College
Cal Poly
Chapman University
Lewis & Clark College
Muhlenberg College
New York University
Redlands University
Saint Mary’s College
San Jose State University
Santa Clara University
Sarah Lawrence College
Simon Fraser University
UC Davis
UC San Diego
University of Puget Sound
University of San Francisco
University of the Pacific
Whittier College
Willamette University