# Cahuilla Desert Academy Junior High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060907005008`
- **School name**: Cahuilla Desert Academy Junior High
- **Location**: Coachella, CA 92236
- **Address**: 82-489 Avenue 52
- **District**: Coachella Valley Unified (LEAID `0609070`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 7–8
- **Coordinates**: 33.66990, -116.22420
- **Phone**: (760)398-0097
- **Website**: https://www.cvusd.us

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 668
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 33
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 83.8%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Red
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: Orange
  - math: Red
  - ela: Red
  - chronic_absent: Red

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 35.4% proficient — 672 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 36.8% (268 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 17.1% (136 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 1
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 98.5%
- **Black/African American**: 0.1%
- **Asian**: 0.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 83.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.9% — 98 students
- **English Learners**: 31.7% — 224 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 86 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 9 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Autism**: 6 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $29,527
- **Federal share**: $1,299
- **State + local share**: $28,228
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 706
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $22,272,782
- **Federal share**: 15.5%
- **State share**: 62.1%
- **Local share**: 22.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,747,729

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $102,222
- **Poverty rate**: 4.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 41.2%
- **Unemployment**: 5.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,102
- **Foreign-born residents**: 15.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 3.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 61.4 miles (MARCH AIR FORCE BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 3
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.76 miles (TWENTY NINE PALMS RESERVATION)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: COACHELLA WATER AUTHORITY
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-02-19

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.98452 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Imagine Schools Riverside County** — 1.2 mi away, 27.4% (this school: 36.8%)
- **Coral Mountain Academy** — 1.4 mi away, 31.1% (this school: 36.8%)
- **Mountain Vista Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 30% (this school: 36.8%)
- **NOVA Academy - Coachella** — 2.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 36.8%)
- **Peter Pendleton Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 31.3% (this school: 36.8%)

### ela proficiency
- **Imagine Schools Riverside County** — 1.2 mi away, 38.05% (this school: 27.7%)
- **Coral Mountain Academy** — 1.4 mi away, 30.1% (this school: 27.7%)
- **Mountain Vista Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 30.1% (this school: 27.7%)
- **Westside Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 37.2% (this school: 27.7%)
- **NOVA Academy - Coachella** — 2.0 mi away, 44.75% (this school: 27.7%)

### math proficiency
- **Imagine Schools Riverside County** — 1.2 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Peter Pendleton Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Martin Van Buren Elementary** — 2.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **La Quinta Middle** — 3.8 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Harry S. Truman Elementary** — 3.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/cahuilla-desert-academy-junior-high-coachella
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/cahuilla-desert-academy-junior-high-coachella/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/cahuilla-desert-academy-junior-high-coachella/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/cahuilla-desert-academy-junior-high-coachella/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/cahuilla-desert-academy-junior-high-coachella/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/cahuilla-desert-academy-junior-high-coachella/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/cahuilla-desert-academy-junior-high-coachella/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/cahuilla-desert-academy-junior-high-coachella/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/cahuilla-desert-academy-junior-high-coachella/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/cahuilla-desert-academy-junior-high-coachella/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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