Egan Junior High School
Ardis G. Egan Junior High School is a middle school for seventh graders and eighth graders in Los Altos, California. It is part of the Los Altos School District. Most of Egan's over five hundred students live in Los Altos and Los Altos Hills, and a few students live in Mountain View. Egan is named after Ardis G. Egan, the founder and former Superintendent of the Los Altos School District.
Egan is mainly fed by local elementary schools of the same district, Almond, Santa Rita, and Covington. Egan has inherited these school's high success rates, ranking as one of the top intermediate schools in the state.
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