Public school / Middle
Nellie N. Coffman Middle
Cathedral City, California
- NCES ID
- 062955004563
- District
- Palm Springs Unified
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Nellie N. Coffman Middle is a public middle school in Cathedral City, California, run by Palm Springs Unified. It enrols 953 students — the 9590th largest of 10,418 public schools in California.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
953
Teachers
44.0
Students per teacher
21.7
Free or reduced-price lunch
98.4%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Palm Springs Unified
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Desert Hot Springs High1,742 students
- 2Palm Springs High1,584 students
- 3Rancho Mirage High1,491 students
- 4Cathedral City High1,395 students
- 5James Workman Middle1,028 students
- 6Nellie N. Coffman Middle953 students
- 7Cielo Vista Charter872 students
- 8Desert Springs Middle803 students
- Enrollment+101.1%
- Teachers+109.5%
- Students per teacher−1.8%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+44.9%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory