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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Cahuilla Elementary administration to hear?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
399
Elementary
DISTRICT 583 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PALM SPRINGS UNIFIED·NCES 062955004560
Cahuilla Elementary
833 East Mesquite Ave., Palm Springs, CA 92264 · (760) 416-8161 · Riverside County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL399 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 27% of California public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- DThree-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
19.2:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.8:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
365 students
DISTRICT 94% · STATE 65%
Community
1
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 | 83 | 21% |
| Grade 1 | 60 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 64 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 60 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 65 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 67 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (83) is 24% larger than its 5th grade class (67).
Student demographics
47%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 31% · 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
28.6%
CA avg 49.1% . +0.6pp since 2014
Math
22.3%
CA avg 37.7% . -1.7pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2014, while math scores are down about 2 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 11.3% | 17.3% | 21.1% | 50.3% |
| Math | 7.6% | 14.7% | 23.4% | 54.4% |
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 | 28.6% | 22.3% |
| 2023-24 | 36.9% | 23.7% |
| 2022-23 | 36.8% | 25.6% |
| 2021-22 | 37.8% | 24.0% |
| 2018-19 | 41.8% | 39.8% |
| 2017-18 | 39.8% | 35.0% |
| 2016-17 | 33.6% | 30.6% |
| 2015-16 | 44.0% | 35.0% |
| 2014-15 | 28.0% | 24.0% |
% 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
27.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.9%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% 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 Cahuilla Elementary
Cahuilla Elementary's state test result (27.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cahuilla Elementary this school | 399 | 91.5% | 27.9% |
| Julius Corsini Elementary Desert Hot Springs | 397 | 91.4% | 15.2% |
| Lankershim Elementary North Hollywood | 326 | 92.9% | 25.3% |
| Bancroft Elementary Spring Valley | 391 | 93.1% | 18.3% |
| Del Mar Elementary Fresno | 444 | 93.9% | 24.2% |
| Oehl Elementary Highland | 436 | 89.0% | 23.1% |
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 Cahuilla Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Riverside County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 27.9% | #3,760 of 5,151 | #189 of 283 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 22.3% | #4,073 of 5,172 ▼ 300 | #205 of 283 ▼ 19 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 28.6% | #4,113 of 5,172 ▼ 1,071 | #216 of 283 ▼ 77 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -5.4pp | #500 of 5,116 | #13 of 280 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 399 | #3,705 of 5,915 | #272 of 296 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.2:1 | #593 of 5,352 | #7 of 292 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.7% | #3,017 of 5,354 | #134 of 292 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 91.5% | #899 of 5,625 | #59 of 294 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.9% | #767 of 3,837 | #19 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
399
-29 (-7%) vs 2020
-29% since 1990-91, when it was 559
Student : Teacher
19.2:1
was 21.4:1
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 | 399 | 20.8 | 19.2:1 | 91% (365) |
| 2023-24 | 413 | 20.7 | 20.0:1 | 90% (373) |
| 2022-23 | 421 | 20.7 | 20.4:1 | 93% (392) |
| 2020-21 | 428 | 20 | 21.4:1 | 96% (411) |
| 2017-18 | 546 | 24 | 22.8:1 | 85% (466) |
| 2015-16 | 571 | 24 | 23.8:1 | 88% (501) |
| 2010-11 | 558 | N/A | N/A | 82% (459) |
| 2000-01 | 590 | 30 | 19.7:1 | 82% (484) |
| 1990-91 | 559 | 23 | 24.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cahuilla Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 27% (546 to 399); teachers down 13% (24 to 20.8).
About Cahuilla Elementary
Cahuilla Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school in Palm Springs, California, one of the schools in Palm Springs Unified. The school has 399 students in 2024-25 across kindergarten through 5.
Palm Springs Unified has 20,007 students in 27 schools, and Cahuilla Elementary is one of those schools.
More than half of the students at Cahuilla Elementary are Hispanic (71%). Beyond that, enrollment is 11% White, 9% Black, 4% multiracial, and 3% Asian. In Riverside County overall, about 51% of residents are Hispanic. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 47%.
On staff are 20.8 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 19.2:1. The average for elementary schools in California is 22.3:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. About 91% of students at Cahuilla Elementary are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Riverside County is 74%.
Among California public elementary schools, Cahuilla Elementary outscored 27%, which works out to a C on the allk12 Grade.
Cahuilla Elementary sits between the top and bottom 10% of California schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 27.9% and a predicted 25.9%.
For the population of Riverside County, the median household earns about $93,074 a year, about 26% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 8%. Cahuilla Elementary shares Riverside County with 542 other public schools.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Desert Learning Academy, is about 1.1 miles. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Of the 7 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Cahuilla Elementary is 5th on average proficiency.
Locale data from NCES put Cahuilla Elementary in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 7% decline, from 428 to 399. The ratio of students to teachers went from 21.4:1 to 19.2:1 over the same years.
Anyone can start a thread about open houses, carpools, and field trips at Cahuilla Elementary. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
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 Palm Springs Unified
- Desert Hot Springs HighHigh · 1,687 students
- Palm Springs HighHigh · 1,497 students
- Rancho Mirage HighHigh · 1,401 students
- Cathedral City HighHigh · 1,334 students
- James Workman MiddleMiddle · 1,020 students
- Nellie N. Coffman MiddleMiddle · 914 students
Other schools in Palm Springs
- Palm Springs HighHigh · 1,497 students
- Cielo Vista CharterElementary · 824 students
- Raymond Cree MiddleMiddle · 721 students
- Katherine Finchy ElementaryElementary · 464 students
- Vista del Monte ElementaryElementary · 435 students
- Desert Learning AcademyCombined · 317 students
Nearby schools
- Desert Learning Academy1.1 mi · 317
- Palm Springs High1.2 mi · 1,497
- Katherine Finchy Elementary2.0 mi · 464
- Cielo Vista Charter2.2 mi · 824
- Raymond Cree Middle2.5 mi · 721
- Agua Caliente Elementary3.0 mi · 645
Frequently asked questions
About Cahuilla ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Cahuilla Elementary?
Cahuilla Elementary enrolls approximately 399 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Cahuilla Elementary serve?
Cahuilla Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Cahuilla Elementary?
Approximately 19.2:1 students per teacher at Cahuilla Elementary.
How diverse is Cahuilla Elementary?
Cahuilla Elementary reports a student body of 11% White, 71% Hispanic, 9% Black, 3% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Cahuilla Elementary?
Cahuilla Elementary is overseen by Palm Springs Unified in Riverside County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.