Bubbling Wells Elementary

Bubbling Wells Elementary is one of the mid-tier K-5 schools in Desert Hot Springs, California, run under Palm Springs Unified, with 581 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. That puts it 25% larger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Palm Springs Unified runs 27 schools in total, collectively educating 20,007 students. Bubbling Wells Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Bubbling Wells Elementary lists that 91% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school records 4% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

On the resource side, The school lists 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Bubbling Wells Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Riverside County (around 74%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Bubbling Wells Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 23.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 20.9%.

In the broader community, census data for Riverside County shows median household earnings sit near $93,074, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Bubbling Wells Elementary is one of 543 public schools in Riverside County (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students).

Nearest neighbor: Desert Springs Middle, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Bubbling Wells Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bubbling Wells Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 22.4%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Bubbling Wells Elementary's enrollment has edged down 21% since 2018, when it stood at 735 (now 581). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 23.0:1 in 2018 to 18.3:1 today.

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