# James Earl Carter Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061111006219`
- **School name**: James Earl Carter Elementary
- **Location**: Palm Desert, CA 92260
- **Address**: 74-251 Hovley Ln. East
- **District**: Desert Sands Unified (LEAID `0611110`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 33.74634, -116.37040
- **Phone**: (760)862-4370
- **Website**: https://www.dsusd.us

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 487
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 22
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 63.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 55.4% proficient — 248 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 24.4% (132 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 12.5% (69 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.2% (6 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 48.7%
- **Black/African American**: 7.9%
- **Asian**: 2.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 35.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.4%
- **Two or more races**: 5.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 56.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.1% — 73 students
- **English Learners**: 17.2% — 89 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Autism**: 30 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 19 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 16 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $22,746
- **Federal share**: $3,433
- **State + local share**: $19,313
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 517
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,921,080
- **Federal share**: 11.0%
- **State share**: 50.5%
- **Local share**: 38.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,499,064

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $73,365
- **Poverty rate**: 20.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 37.6%
- **Unemployment**: 6.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,910
- **Foreign-born residents**: 20.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 20.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 52.0 miles (MARCH AIR FORCE BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 8.22 miles (DOUG YORK PLAZA)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: COACHELLA VWD: COVE COMMUNITY
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.98452 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 9.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Palm Desert Charter Middle** — 0.8 mi away, 18.2% (this school: 24.4%)
- **Palm Desert High** — 1.1 mi away, 0.39% (this school: 24.4%)
- **George Washington Charter** — 2.1 mi away, 11.5% (this school: 24.4%)
- **Ronald Reagan Elementary** — 3.3 mi away, 22.7% (this school: 24.4%)
- **Gerald R. Ford Elementary** — 3.6 mi away, 16.7% (this school: 24.4%)

### ela proficiency
- **Palm Desert High** — 1.1 mi away, 65.1% (this school: 60.7%)
- **George Washington Charter** — 2.1 mi away, 70.2% (this school: 60.7%)
- **Gerald R. Ford Elementary** — 3.6 mi away, 61.8% (this school: 60.7%)
- **La Quinta High** — 5.7 mi away, 61.3% (this school: 60.7%)
- **Cathedral City High** — 6.1 mi away, 61.35% (this school: 60.7%)

### math proficiency
- **Herbert Hoover Elementary** — 8.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)

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