Abraham Lincoln Elementary

Abraham Lincoln Elementary is one of the medium-sized primary schools in Palm Desert, California, operated by Desert Sands Unified, with 607 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 31% bigger than the state mean of about 465.

Desert Sands Unified comprises 34 schools with combined enrollment of 25,613 students; Abraham Lincoln Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Abraham Lincoln Elementary shows that 79% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder breaks down as 13% White, 3% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Riverside County as a whole is about 51% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 25.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 87% of students at Abraham Lincoln Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Riverside County's rate of about 74%.

After controlling for student poverty, Abraham Lincoln Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.9%, the actual is 23.6%, a residual of -4.3 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Riverside County) logs that median household income runs about $93,074, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Riverside County runs 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), of which Abraham Lincoln Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Palm Desert Charter Middle, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Abraham Lincoln Elementary at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 49.7%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 619 students in 2018 compared to 607 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment fell from 84% to 79% over that span.

Inside the community feed, members of the Abraham Lincoln Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.