Cabot Yerxa Elementary

As a mid-sized elementary campus in Desert Hot Springs, California, Cabot Yerxa Elementary serves 664 students from grades K through 5, run under Palm Springs Unified. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 43% larger than typical.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Cabot Yerxa Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (85%). Beyond that, the school shows 8% Black, 5% White, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 51% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Cabot Yerxa Elementary lists 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Riverside County (around 74%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Cabot Yerxa Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.2%, the actual is 16.1%, a residual of -7.1 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Riverside County) reports that 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%. In all, Riverside County runs 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), of which Cabot Yerxa Elementary is one.

Desert Springs Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Cabot Yerxa Elementary at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 23.0%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Cabot Yerxa Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 5% since 2018, when it stood at 700 (now 664). The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 75% to 85% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 23.3:1 in 2018 to 20.4:1 today.

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