castilleja is at the corner of bryant and embarcadero expressway.if you know palo alto at all, you certainly know embarcadero is a very busy main thoroughfare just off to the left here. it's easy to see why traffic congestion is an issue for parents and neighbors. according to the school's website, castilleja is the only independent school for grades 6-11 with a heft i have ti price tag. tuition $38,200 per student. they have been permitted to have 415 girls and it's lived by this enrollment cap until now. for the upcoming school year it has enrolled 448. so they are over by 33 students. it may not seem like a lot, but to these neighbors it certainly is. according to the palo alto daily news, they're upset because they say parking is already a huge problem and now they're worried about more noise and pollution. what happens now? today the school is submitting a report applying for a new permit to allow for the extra students and to prove it does have a plan for the additional traffic. in the meantime, to help address community concerns, castilleja i

so to help address these concerns, castilleja is holding a meeting tonight. this meeting is scheduled for 5:00 right here on school grounds. one idea the school has is to start a shuttle program that would bus students in from woodside, portola valley and los altos where many of the girls live, reducing the number of vehicles during peak hours. i have sent an e-mail to the school's head master. one of the questions i asked is why even the over-enrollment in the first place. in the end the school could be fined by the city of palo alto which by the way is tasked with ultimately deciding on how to deal with this overenrollment issue. i'll talk about that in my next report at 6:05. marla tellez, "today in the bay." >>> school starting back up for students at palo alto public schools this morning. also going back to school today, students in the morgan hill unified school district. lots of new notebooks, brand new sneakers. >> backpacks, probably some shorts, too. it's going to be a hot one out there. time to check the forecast with meteorologist christina loren.

castilleja school officials say they take full responsibility for going over the enrollment cap for thisng school year. they say they have no immediate plans to scale back. the school is 33 students over the capacity allowed by a permit that was issued back in 2000. neighbors say more students make an already crowded street even  worse. the school plans to ask for a new permit. >>> san jose's monthly bike party is branching out. it has police warning commuters about the possible delay. normally this takes place in san jose and attracts as many as 5,000 riders. this month it will be starting in sunnyvale going through mountain view and palo alto before then turning around at stanford. since the cyclists are planning to use the major roadways, police are warning drivers to watch out and be very careful. the ride, also scheduled to take place tonight between 8:00 and midnight. >>> meantime campbell police are still looking for the driver who hit a group of bicyclists riding home from last month's bike party and simply took off. the riders were on west campbell avenue at about 1:00 a.m. bac