Editing Mountain View, California (section)

==Education==
[[File:Mountain_View_High_School_building.jpg|thumb|[[Mountain View High School (Mountain View, California)|Mountain View High School]]]]

===Public===
The public elementary (Bubb, Castro, Imai, Landels, [[Gabriela Mistral Elementary School|Mistral]], [[Monta Loma, Mountain View|Monta Loma]], Stevenson, Theuerkauf, and Vargas) and middle schools (Crittenden and Graham) are governed by the [[Mountain View-Whisman School District]].<ref>{{cite web| url =http://www.mvwsd.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070724021047/http://www.mvwsd.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=27| title= Mountain View Whisman School District - School Info|archive-date=July 24, 2007 |website=Mvwsd.org| access-date=May 27, 2015}}</ref> Springer Elementary, although located within the borders of Mountain View, is governed by the [[Los Altos School District]]. The public high schools are governed by the [[Mountain View-Los Altos Union High School District]] and consist of [[Alta Vista High School (California)|Alta Vista High School]], [[Mountain View High School (Mountain View, California)|Mountain View High School]], and [[Los Altos High School (Los Altos, California)|Los Altos High School]].<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.mvla.net/Home.aspx|title=MVLA High School District| access-date=October 25, 2014| url-status =dead| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130801172620/http://www.mvla.net/Home.aspx|archive-date=August 1, 2013}}</ref> Mountain View High and Los Altos High each contain approximately 50% Los Altos residents and 50% Mountain View residents. Some Mountain View residents attend Almond Elementary and Egan Junior High in the Los Altos School District.

Mountain View taxed a large portion of its most valuable commercial and industrial properties in the Shoreline Regional Park Community at very low relative levels, and until the creation of a joint-powers agreement (JPA) in 2006, none of those property taxes reached the local schools. After the creation of the JPA, the Shoreline Regional Park Community shared less than $1 million per year with the elementary and high school districts.<ref>[http://www.mv-voice.com/story.php?story_id=1732 "Flush times at high school district,"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927084607/http://www.mv-voice.com/story.php?story_id=1732 |date=September 27, 2007}} ''Mountain View Voice,'' June 30, 2006</ref><ref>[http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/kopec/b155/html/tab-234.html "Mountain View Shoreline Regional Park Community Act,"] {{webarchive| url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060903100613/http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/kopec/b155/html/tab-234.html |date=September 3, 2006}} uncodified Act of the California Legislature, 1969, Chapter 1109.</ref>

In 2008, a citizen-supported parcel tax, largely aimed at reducing class sizes, was renewed in an overwhelmingly positive vote.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.mv-voice.com/news/2008/06/04/measure-c-passes-by-a-landslide| title=Measure C passes by a landslide|author=Casey Weiss|date=June 4, 2008| website=Mv-voice.com|access-date=May 27, 2015}}</ref> The current ratio of students to full-time-equivalent teachers in the Mountain View public elementary schools is 20.4&nbsp;:&nbsp;1.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/district_detail.asp?Search=2&details=1&DistrictID=0626280&ID2=0626280|title=District Detail for Mountain View-Whisman Elementary|access-date=October 25, 2014}}</ref>

===Private===

Notable private schools in Mountain View include: [[Khan Lab School]], a [[laboratory school]] associated with [[Khan Academy]]; [[Saint Francis High School (Mountain View)|Saint Francis High School]], a [[Roman Catholic]] [[secondary school]]; [[German International School of Silicon Valley]] (GISSV), a [[K–12 (education)|PK-12]] German-English bilingual international school; and [[Yew Chung International School of Silicon Valley]], a PK-8 Chinese-English bilingual international school.