# Desert Learning Academy

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/desert-learning-academy-palm-springs

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062955013957`
- **School name**: Desert Learning Academy
- **Location**: Palm Springs, CA 92264
- **Address**: 2248 East Ramon Rd.
- **District**: Palm Springs Unified (LEAID `0629550`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: Other
- **Grade range**: 0–12
- **Coordinates**: 33.81623, -116.52249
- **Phone**: (760)778-0487
- **Website**: https://www.psusd.us

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 317
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 20
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 89.6%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 44.9% proficient — 170 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 82.8% (cohort of 58)
- **2021**: 67.0% (cohort of 61)

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 28.9% (77 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 73.7% (182 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.6% (6 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.4% (9 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**: 92.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 5.3% — 20 students
- **English Learners**: 4.5% — 17 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $21,646
- **Federal share**: $3,679
- **State + local share**: $17,967
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 378
### 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**: $58,100
- **Poverty rate**: 10.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 43.0%
- **Unemployment**: 10.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,351
- **Foreign-born residents**: 14.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 18.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 42.5 miles (MARCH AIR FORCE BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 17.93 miles (DOUG YORK PLAZA)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: DESERT WATER AGENCY
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2018-01-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.80417 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Palm Springs High** — 0.1 mi away, 0.2% (this school: 28.9%)
- **Cielo Vista Charter** — 1.3 mi away, 12.1% (this school: 28.9%)
- **Katherine Finchy Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 28.2% (this school: 28.9%)
- **Agua Caliente Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 24.7% (this school: 28.9%)
- **Mt. San Jacinto High** — 2.8 mi away, 6.44% (this school: 28.9%)

### ela proficiency
- **Palm Springs High** — 0.1 mi away, 58.85% (this school: 41.45%)
- **Cahuilla Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 45.95% (this school: 41.45%)
- **Cielo Vista Charter** — 1.3 mi away, 66.85% (this school: 41.45%)
- **Katherine Finchy Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 54.45% (this school: 41.45%)
- **Raymond Cree Middle** — 2.1 mi away, 53.7% (this school: 41.45%)

### graduation rate
- **Palm Springs High** — 0.1 mi away, 92.9% (this school: 82.8%)
- **Mt. San Jacinto High** — 2.8 mi away, 85.1% (this school: 82.8%)
- **Cathedral City High** — 4.2 mi away, 91.9% (this school: 82.8%)
- **Rancho Mirage High** — 5.1 mi away, 96.1% (this school: 82.8%)
- **Desert Hot Springs High** — 10.3 mi away, 85.6% (this school: 82.8%)

### math proficiency
- **Cielo Vista Charter** — 1.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Katherine Finchy Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Vista del Monte Elementary** — 2.9 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Sunny Sands Elementary** — 4.0 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Rancho Mirage High** — 5.1 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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