# Desert Hot Springs High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062955008267`
- **School name**: Desert Hot Springs High
- **Location**: Desert Hot Springs, CA 92240
- **Address**: 65850 Pierson Blvd.
- **District**: Palm Springs Unified (LEAID `0629550`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 33.96454, -116.51755
- **Phone**: (760)288-7000
- **Website**: https://www.psusd.us
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5263953 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Hot_Springs_High_School
- **Founded**: 1999

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,687
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 82
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 96.1%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Orange
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: Orange
  - math: Orange
  - college_career: Orange
  - ela: Yellow
  - graduation: Yellow

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 50.4% proficient — 343 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 52.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 85.6% (cohort of 383)
- **2021**: 87.0% (cohort of 375)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 2

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 43.9% (810 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.6% (79 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 3.0% (52 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 96.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.7% — 322 students
- **English Learners**: 27.5% — 473 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 130 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 39 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 26 students
- **Autism**: 19 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 11 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 8 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 3 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $22,098
- **Federal share**: $2,184
- **State + local share**: $19,914
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,718
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $22,794,565
- **Federal share**: 9.5%
- **State share**: 54.5%
- **Local share**: 36.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,478,504

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $36,209
- **Poverty rate**: 31.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 7.5%
- **Unemployment**: 12.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,059
- **Foreign-born residents**: 17.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 44.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 42.2 miles (NORTON AIR FORCE BASE LNDFLL 2)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 23.29 miles (DOUG YORK PLAZA)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: MISSION SPRINGS WD
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2021-12-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.80417 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 7.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Palm Springs High** — 10.2 mi away, 0.2% (this school: 4.6%)
- **Rancho Mirage High** — 11.0 mi away, 2.53% (this school: 4.6%)
- **Yucca Valley High** — 11.5 mi away, 2.12% (this school: 4.6%)
- **Cathedral City High** — 11.7 mi away, 3.14% (this school: 4.6%)

### ela proficiency
- **Raymond Cree Middle** — 8.4 mi away, 53.7% (this school: 51.2%)
- **Katherine Finchy Elementary** — 8.9 mi away, 54.45% (this school: 51.2%)
- **Palm Springs High** — 10.2 mi away, 58.85% (this school: 51.2%)
- **Cielo Vista Charter** — 10.5 mi away, 66.85% (this school: 51.2%)
- **Rancho Mirage High** — 11.0 mi away, 58.1% (this school: 51.2%)

### graduation rate
- **Palm Springs High** — 10.2 mi away, 92.9% (this school: 85.6%)
- **Rancho Mirage High** — 11.0 mi away, 96.1% (this school: 85.6%)
- **Cathedral City High** — 11.7 mi away, 91.9% (this school: 85.6%)

### math proficiency
- **Vista del Monte Elementary** — 7.7 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Katherine Finchy Elementary** — 8.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Sunny Sands Elementary** — 10.4 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Cielo Vista Charter** — 10.5 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Rancho Mirage High** — 11.0 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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