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Enrollment
748
Elementary
DISTRICT 573 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DESERT SANDS UNIFIED·NCES 061111008766
Amelia Earhart Elementary School of International Studies
45-250 Dune Palms Rd., Indio, CA 92201 · (760) 200-3720 · Riverside County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL748 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 33% of California public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- FThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
24.9:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.4:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
65%
487 students
DISTRICT 79% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 148 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 101 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 114 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 131 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 126 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 128 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (148) is 16% larger than its 5th grade class (128).
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
45.5%
CA avg 49.1% . -14.5pp since 2014
Math
35.6%
CA avg 37.7% . -7.4pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 14 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 7 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 21.1% | 24.5% | 24.5% | 30.0% |
| Math | 11.3% | 24.3% | 31.9% | 32.5% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 45.5% | 35.6% |
| 2023-24 | 38.5% | 35.6% |
| 2022-23 | 45.7% | 37.0% |
| 2021-22 | 51.8% | 43.0% |
| 2018-19 | 57.5% | 55.5% |
| 2017-18 | 59.1% | 51.6% |
| 2016-17 | 61.1% | 49.7% |
| 2015-16 | 58.0% | 49.0% |
| 2014-15 | 60.0% | 43.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
38.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.4%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Amelia Earhart Elementary School of International Studies
Amelia Earhart Elementary School of International Studies's state test result (38.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amelia Earhart Elementary School of International Studies this school | 748 | 65.1% | 38.8% |
| Breeze Hill Elementary Vista | 742 | 65.0% | 46.5% |
| Joe Nightingale Elementary Santa Maria | 695 | 66.9% | 55.7% |
| Peggy Heller Elementary Atwater | 712 | 63.8% | 41.5% |
| Imperial Beach Charter Imperial Beach | 724 | 62.8% | 28.1% |
| Live Oak Elementary Fallbrook | 717 | 68.6% | 50.5% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Amelia Earhart Elementary School of International Studies ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Riverside County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.8% | #2,603 of 5,151 | #106 of 283 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 35.6% | #2,688 of 5,172 ▼ 141 | #102 of 283 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 45.5% | #2,403 of 5,172 ▲ 454 | #100 of 283 ▲ 24 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -6.8pp | #318 of 5,116 | #10 of 280 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 748 | #539 of 5,915 | #82 of 296 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 24.9:1 | #4,391 of 5,352 | #252 of 292 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.0% | #2,690 of 5,354 | #110 of 292 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 65.1% | #3,225 of 5,625 | #223 of 294 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.3% | #1,730 of 3,837 | #82 of 207 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
748
-14 (-2%) vs 2020
-24% since 2010-11, when it was 987
Student : Teacher
24.9:1
was 23.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 748 | 30 | 24.9:1 | 65% (487) |
| 2023-24 | 762 | 32.1 | 23.8:1 | 62% (474) |
| 2022-23 | 782 | 32 | 24.4:1 | 60% (467) |
| 2020-21 | 762 | 33 | 23.1:1 | 46% (349) |
| 2017-18 | 904 | 37 | 24.4:1 | 42% (377) |
| 2015-16 | 931 | 34 | 27.4:1 | 40% (375) |
| 2010-11 | 987 | N/A | N/A | 30% (295) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Amelia Earhart Elementary School of International Studies.
Since 2017-18: students down 17% (904 to 748); teachers down 19% (37 to 30).
About Amelia Earhart Elementary School of International Studies
Amelia Earhart Elementary School of International Studies is a high-enrollment elementary school serving families in Indio, California. The school counted 748 students in 2024-25, covering kindergarten through 5. It has 61% more students than the average for elementary schools in California (about 465).
Desert Sands Unified runs Amelia Earhart Elementary School of International Studies along with 33 other schools, enrolling 25,613 students in total.
About 66% of the student body at Amelia Earhart Elementary School of International Studies is Hispanic. Other groups make up 23% White, 6% multiracial, and 4% Asian. County-wide, 51% of Riverside County residents are Hispanic. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 51%.
For every teacher at Amelia Earhart Elementary School of International Studies, there are about 24.9 students; the school has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers. Compared with the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California, this school's ratio is higher. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 65%. The average for public schools in Riverside County is 74%.
Amelia Earhart Elementary School of International Studies earns a C on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 33% of California public elementary schools.
Amelia Earhart Elementary School of International Studies is 2.6 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (38.8% versus 41.4%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in California.
In Riverside County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $93,074, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 26%, and roughly 8% of residents are in poverty. The county has 543 public schools and about 424,872 students.
John Glenn Middle School of International Studies sits about 0.1 miles from Amelia Earhart Elementary School of International Studies. Amelia Earhart Elementary School of International Studies has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools with test data average 27.8% proficiency; Amelia Earhart Elementary School of International Studies posts 38.8%.
Locale data from NCES put Amelia Earhart Elementary School of International Studies in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
In 2020-21, Amelia Earhart Elementary School of International Studies enrolled 762; in 2024-25, 748. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 23.1:1; by 2024-25 it was 24.9:1.
This page is set up for the Amelia Earhart Elementary School of International Studies community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Riverside County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,478,600
Census ACS
Median income
$93,074
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
543
424,872 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Desert Sands Unified
- La Quinta HighHigh · 2,425 students
- Palm Desert HighHigh · 2,079 students
- Indio HighHigh · 1,962 students
- Shadow Hills HighHigh · 1,650 students
- Palm Desert Charter MiddleMiddle · 1,298 students
- John Glenn Middle School of International StudiesMiddle · 1,099 students
Other schools in Indio
- Indio HighHigh · 1,962 students
- Shadow Hills HighHigh · 1,650 students
- John Glenn Middle School of International StudiesMiddle · 1,099 students
- Desert Ridge AcademyMiddle · 962 students
- Indio MiddleMiddle · 768 students
- Andrew Jackson ElementaryElementary · 750 students
Nearby schools
- John Glenn Middle School of International Studies0.1 mi · 1,099
- La Quinta High0.5 mi · 2,425
- James Madison Elementary1.3 mi · 403
- Indio Middle1.6 mi · 768
- Carrillo Ranch Elementary1.6 mi · 459
- Summit High (Continuation)1.7 mi · 195
Frequently asked questions
About Amelia Earhart Elementary School of International StudiesHow large is Amelia Earhart Elementary School of International Studies?
Amelia Earhart Elementary School of International Studies enrolls approximately 748 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Amelia Earhart Elementary School of International Studies serve?
Amelia Earhart Elementary School of International Studies serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Amelia Earhart Elementary School of International Studies?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Amelia Earhart Elementary School of International Studies is approximately 24.9:1 (30 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Amelia Earhart Elementary School of International Studies?
At Amelia Earhart Elementary School of International Studies, the student body is approximately 23% White, 66% Hispanic, 1% Black, 4% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Amelia Earhart Elementary School of International Studies public or private?
Amelia Earhart Elementary School of International Studies is a public K-12 school, overseen by Desert Sands Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.