Los Altos Hills Traffic School

The Census Bureau estimates 8,419 people in Los Altos Hills on July 1, 2025. The town's general plan calls its roads typically narrow and winding, shaped by steep terrain, heavy vegetation and creeks. Interstate 280 is the state highway through town and carries its heaviest traffic, and the Page Mill and Foothill Expressways also serve the community. The plan counts no traffic signals or streetlights in town except on El Monte Road, at the Foothill College entrance and at Stonebrook and Voorhees Drives.

Tickets in Los Altos Hills come from two agencies. The town has no police department of its own and contracts with the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office, whose West Valley Division serves Los Altos Hills, Saratoga, Cupertino and unincorporated county land, with deputies assigned to patrol and traffic among other duties. On Interstate 280 the California Highway Patrol writes the tickets, and its Redwood City, San Jose and Hollister-Gilroy Areas serve Santa Clara County. Sheriff's and Highway Patrol tickets both go to Santa Clara County Superior Court under the same traffic school rules.

The Office of Traffic Safety's 2023 rankings count 8 people killed or injured in Los Altos Hills crashes, 50th of 74 cities of similar size, where 1st is the worst result. Bicyclists were 6 of those 8, which puts the town 6th in its group for bicyclist victims. Speed-related collisions that killed or hurt someone numbered 2, ranked 46th. With counts this small, one crash can move a rank a long way, and none of it speaks to fault in a particular case.

Bicyclists share these roads with drivers. The general plan lists recreational bicyclists on the road network as a local factor, and it designates Arastradero Road, El Monte Road, Old Page Mill Road and Page Mill Road east of Baleri Ranch Road as regional bikeways. The town's pathway system gives school children, walkers, runners, horseback riders and bicyclists routes through town, and the town asks drivers to use extreme caution when passing bicyclists, equestrians and other path users.

Los Altos Hills tickets are handled by Santa Clara County Superior Court at either of its two traffic courthouses. The Family Justice Center Courthouse stands at 201 North First Street in San Jose, and the South County Morgan Hill Courthouse at 301 Diana Avenue in Morgan Hill. One traffic number, (408) 556-3000, reaches both. The case stays in Santa Clara County wherever you live, because the court says traffic cases must be heard in the county where you got the citation.

Whether you can take traffic school is up to the court. Once your citation reaches its system, the court mails a courtesy notice that lays out your options and a due date, and before then, the court says, you cannot pay the ticket or sign up for traffic school. Each offense in the court's bail schedule is marked eligible or not. Some tickets need a court appearance first, for example after four or more prior traffic convictions or a citation for speeding at a dangerous speed. Traffic school adds a court monitoring fee on top of the bail, which the court sets and your notice shows, and Mirai Traffic School's $24.99 is paid separately. By state law, the first traffic school conviction in any 18-month period stays confidential.

Mirai Traffic School reports your completion to the DMV electronically, and the court retrieves it from there. The court will not accept a completion from a school the DMV has not licensed, and it points drivers to the DMV's Traffic School Search to check. Mirai Traffic School's license is E0756. After the school notifies the court, the court says there is nothing further for you to do.