High · California
Palm Desert High
Free meals for allPalm Desert High, a public high school in Palm Desert, California: grades 9–12, 2,079 students, 26.0 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Desert Sands Unified.
Size and class size
Compared with high schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 2,079
- Teachers (FTE)
- 80.0
- Students per teacher
- 26.0
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
More students per teacher than 94% of high schools in California
Median 19.1 · 2,120 schools compared
More students per teacher than 95% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 89% of high schools in California
Median 462 · 2,126 schools compared
Larger than 94% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 9–12
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Small city
- Run by
- Desert Sands Unified
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Desert Sands Unified.
Location
- Address
- 74-910 Aztec Rd., Palm Desert, CA 92260
- Phone
- (760)862-4300
- City or town
- Palm Desert
- County
- Riverside County
Nearby high schools
The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Summit High (Continuation)AlternativeFree meals for all | 10–12 | 195 | 16.5 |
La Quinta HighFree meals for all | 9–12 | 2,425 | 24.8 |
Shadow Hills HighFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,650 | 23.4 |
Indio HighFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,962 | 23.6 |
Cathedral City HighFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,334 | 20.0 |
Rancho Mirage HighFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,401 | 20.4 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level.
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