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Out of 11,949 students enrolled in Palo Alto Unified School District, 7.4 percent were in sixth-grade during the 2018-2019 school year, according to the California Department of Education.

The grade with the highest concentration of students was ninth-grade with 9 percent of all students.

According to numbers provided by the National Center for Education Services, California is expected to see a decrease of three percent in public elementary and secondary school enrollment from 2017-2029. The state expected to see the largest drop in enrollment is New Mexico with a projected 12 percent decrease, while Washington D.C. is projected to see a 14 percent increase over the same time period.

In a survey conducted by the Public Policy Institute of California, seven percent of respondents said large class sizes was the biggest issue facing California's K-12 schools. In the same survey, 50 percent of the respondents said they didn’t view the financial resources their local public school was getting as adequate.

Grade	Number of students	Total %
Kindergarten	820	6.9
First	801	6.7
Second	763	6.4
Third	820	6.9
Fourth	859	7.2
Fifth	888	7.4
Sixth	884	7.4
Seventh	939	7.9
Eighth	1,036	8.7
Ninth	1,074	9
10th	1,041	8.7
11th	1,013	8.5
12th	1,011	8.5