Public school / High
Palm Desert High
Palm Desert, California
- NCES ID
- 061111008819
- District
- Desert Sands Unified
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Palm Desert High is a public high school in Palm Desert, California, run by Desert Sands Unified. It enrols 2,050 students — the 1666th 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
2,050
Teachers
84.0
Students per teacher
24.4
Free or reduced-price lunch
57.3%
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 Desert Sands 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.
- 1La Quinta High2,500 students
- 2Indio High2,143 students
- 3Palm Desert High2,050 students
- 4Shadow Hills High1,751 students
- 5Palm Desert Charter Middle1,347 students
- 6John Glenn Middle School of International Studies1,045 students
- 7Desert Ridge Academy1,030 students
- 8Ronald Reagan Elementary834 students
- Enrollment+332.5%
- Teachers+300.0%
- Students per teacher+10.4%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−15.6%
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