Stanford, California, United States

🇺🇸 Stanford is a place (CDP) in the north-west corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is the home of Stanford University. Stanford is an unincorporated area of Santa Clara County and is adjacent to the city of Palo Alto.

The place is named after Stanford University. Most of the Stanford University campus and other core University-owned land is situated within the CDP of Stanford, though the Stanford University Medical Center, the Stanford Shopping Center, and the Stanford Research Park are officially part of the city of Palo Alto. Its resident population consists of the inhabitants of on-campus housing, including graduate student residences and single-family homes and condominiums owned by their faculty inhabitants but located on leased Stanford land. A residential neighborhood adjacent to the Stanford campus, College Terrace, featuring streets named after universities and colleges, is neither part of the Stanford CDP nor owned by the University (except for a few individual houses) but is instead part of Palo Alto.

Geography Stanford has a total area of 2.8 square miles (7.3 km²), of which, 2.7 square miles (7.0 km²) is land and 0.045 square miles (0.12 km²) (1.64%) is water.

Education The Stanford CDP is part of the Palo Alto Unified School District which serves students k-12. Two of the district's schools are within the boundaries of the CDP: Escondido Elementary School and Lucille M. Nixon Elementary School.

Preschools in the CDP include the Bing Nursery School, run by the university's School of Humanities and Sciences, and the Children's Center of the Stanford Community, a parent-teacher cooperative.