Phillips Brooks School

Our 2025-2026 Admission Season will launch on August 15. We look forward to meeting you on one of our campus tours this fall. 

Phillips Brooks School is an independent, co-educational day school offering a truly child-centered learning program for preschool through 5th grade, located in Menlo Park – neighboring Stanford University.

• PBS is a diverse community of families and educators committed to partnering in support of student learning.
• We offer intimate student-to-teacher ratios, ensuring that each child is known and loved by their teachers.
• Our Early Learning Center program engages our youngest students in creative, play-based, hands-on projects to teach early literacy, math, and problem-solving skills.
• Our innovative, rigorous, and research-based K–5 program blends literacy and math curricula with deep, experiential learning in world languages, visual art, music, and STEM.
• PBS's unmatched Emotional Intelligence program, integrated throughout the curriculum, ensures that PBS students are set up for a lifetime of being eager learners and great people.

Our Mission

The Phillips Brooks School community inspires students to love learning, to develop a spiritual nature, to communicate effectively, to be kind to others, and to respect the uniqueness of each person.

Our Core Values

• Courage. We value strength of character and the integrity to do what is right in spite of the risk of fear or discomfort.
• Community. We value ourselves as responsible members of both our local and global communities and in doing so demonstrate a deeper understanding and compassion for others.
• Kindness. We value empathy and respect for self and others through honest and effective communication.
• Love of learning. We value learning as a lifelong process, driven by intrinsic motivation and focused on process rather than product.