# Desert Junior-Senior High

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/desert-junior-senior-high-edwards

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062649003995`
- **School name**: Desert Junior-Senior High
- **Location**: Edwards, CA 93523
- **Address**: 1575 Payne Ave.
- **District**: Muroc Joint Unified (LEAID `0626490`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 7–12
- **Coordinates**: 34.92482, -117.94316
- **Phone**: (760)306-4964
- **Website**: https://www.muroc.k12.ca.us

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 497
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 30
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 13.3%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Orange
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: 0
  - math: Orange
  - college_career: Yellow
  - ela: Orange
  - chronic_absent: Orange
  - graduation: Blue

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 39.5% proficient — 235 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 95.4% (cohort of 65)
- **2021**: N/A (cohort of 64)

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 21.7% (45 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.4% (17 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**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 12.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.4% — 75 students
- **English Learners**: 0.2% — 1 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 17 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 14 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,251
- **Federal share**: $758
- **State + local share**: $9,493
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 458
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $42,148,544
- **Federal share**: 68.6%
- **State share**: 22.1%
- **Local share**: 9.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,951,872

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $94,773
- **Poverty rate**: 3.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 42.3%
- **Unemployment**: 10.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,311
- **Foreign-born residents**: 5.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 12.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.7 miles (EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 45.73 miles (FORMER NUWAY DRY CLEANING SITE)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 4.2377 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 16.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Rare Earth High (Continuation)** — 14.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 21.7%)
- **Rosamond High Early College Campus** — 14.2 mi away, 1.66% (this school: 21.7%)
- **California City High** — 14.8 mi away, 0.63% (this school: 21.7%)

### ela proficiency
- **Irving L. Branch Elementary** — 0.1 mi away, 39.2% (this school: 38.75%)
- **Rosamond High Early College Campus** — 14.2 mi away, 49.85% (this school: 38.75%)
- **California City High** — 14.8 mi away, 44.7% (this school: 38.75%)

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