Along with our excellent teachers and staff at Santa Rita, parents play an important role within the community. A great way to contribute to this special community is to become involved with the PTA. The PTA is our parent/teacher organization that provides both volunteer and financial support for programs that extend and enrich the curriculum provided by the Los Altos School District. When you join the PTA, you become a part of the network of parents and teachers that are working to enhance every child's educational experience at Santa Rita.

The mission of Santa Rita PTA is to positively impact the lives of our children and families.

The Santa Rita PTA Goals include:

• Strengthen the Santa Rita community through
  • Community-wide events such as Bobcat Chase, Witches' Delight, International Day, and others
  • Engagement of student, staff and families in the Project Cornerstone program
  • Community outreach, including meetings, social events, family nights
  • Improved communication among all segments of the community
• Work to support the success of all Santa Rita students by
  • Ensuring access to needed supplies and technology
  • Providing parent education events
• Support the continual improvement of the classroom experience through
  • Financial support for teacher technology training
  • Purchase of additional technology for classrooms
• Provide monetary support for additional educational programs, materials, and supplies, as well as campus improvements

Past activities and resources provided by the Santa Rita PTA include:

• Funding for capital improvements such as the beautiful Santa Rita mural, new canopies for the picnic tables, new picnic tables, updating the Santa Rita running path, the multipurpose room upgrade, landscaping and beautification, new computer equipment and iPads, as well as instructional audio visual equipment for the classrooms
• Funding for academic support including text books, instructional supplies, Science Fair, supplies for teachers, teacher stipends, Living Classroom, and Art and Music Programs for lower grades.
• Funding of literacy programs including the Birthday Book Program and the Book Fair which provide library books and classroom literature sets
• Witches’ Delight, Bobcat Chase, Special Assemblies and the Junior Olympics, all community building events for our school
• Hot Lunch Program to provide a means for students to have lunch at school if they cannot bring a lunch
• Bobcat Striders and Playground Equipment to support physical education 

PTA General Meetings for 2023-2024 are at 9am

• To be announced soon

The Santa Rita PTA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. The PTA's federal tax id is 94-6174402.

Reach out to the PTA at hello@santaritapta.org

Updated 12 August 2023