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Menlo College
1000 El Camino Real
Atherton, California 94027-4301
(Student count includes part-time and full-time; not all students live in the city or town. Data as of 2007.)
| City/Town | Colleges | Pop. (2000) | Students | Dorms |
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| Belmont Colleges | 1 | 25,123 | 1,491 | 482 |
| Los Altos Hills Colleges | 1 | 7,902 | 18,132 | |
| Palo Alto Colleges | 1 | 58,598 | 482 | |
| Redwood City Colleges | 2 | 75,402 | 6,191 | |
| San Mateo Colleges | 2 | 92,482 | 10,516 | |
| Sunnyvale Colleges | 3 | 131,760 | 401 | 50 |
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