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Enrollment
824
Elementary
DISTRICT 583 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PALM SPRINGS UNIFIED·NCES 062955004562
Cielo Vista Charter
650 South Paseo Dorotea, Palm Springs, CA 92264 · (760) 416-8250 · Riverside County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL824 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 91% 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.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- AThree-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
20.2:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.8:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
93%
764 students
DISTRICT 94% · 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 | 72 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 81 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 82 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 83 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 87 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 86 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 115 | 14% |
| Grade 7 | 110 | 13% |
| Grade 8 | 108 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (72) is 33% smaller than its 8th grade class (108).
Student demographics
32%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
60.1%
CA avg 49.1% . +3.1pp since 2014
Math
44.9%
CA avg 37.7% . -10.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 45 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 10 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 26.1% | 34.0% | 23.4% | 16.5% |
| Math | 20.3% | 24.6% | 28.4% | 26.7% |
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 | 60.1% | 44.9% |
| 2023-24 | 57.3% | 38.7% |
| 2022-23 | 57.4% | 39.5% |
| 2021-22 | 54.8% | 31.9% |
| 2018-19 | 66.2% | 47.2% |
| 2017-18 | 64.9% | 52.3% |
| 2016-17 | 63.2% | 51.7% |
| 2015-16 | 61.0% | 48.0% |
| 2014-15 | 57.0% | 55.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
50.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.2%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+25.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 25% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 26 points, placing it in California's top 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 Cielo Vista Charter
Cielo Vista Charter's state test result (50.7% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cielo Vista Charter this school | 824 | 92.7% | 50.7% |
| Franklin Elementary Modesto | 777 | 94.0% | 23.4% |
| Horizon Elementary Bakersfield | 845 | 93.8% | 29.3% |
| Sunny Sands Elementary Cathedral City | 692 | 93.4% | 44.4% |
| Caruthers Elementary Caruthers | 836 | 88.5% | 39.5% |
| Fairview Elementary Modesto | 786 | 92.4% | 24.9% |
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 Cielo Vista Charter ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Riverside County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.7% | #1,672 of 5,151 | #52 of 283 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 44.9% | #1,932 of 5,172 ▲ 350 | #68 of 283 ▲ 17 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 60.1% | #1,311 of 5,172 ▲ 94 | #38 of 283 ▲ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +9.2pp | #729 of 5,116 | #32 of 280 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 824 | #319 of 5,915 | #45 of 296 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.2:1 | #1,037 of 5,352 | #20 of 292 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 32.1% | #3,848 of 5,354 | #196 of 292 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 92.7% | #745 of 5,625 | #41 of 294 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.0% | #2,296 of 3,837 | #118 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
824
-47 (-5%) vs 2020
+54% since 1990-91, when it was 536
Student : Teacher
20.2:1
was 24.2:1
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 | 824 | 40.8 | 20.2:1 | 93% (764) |
| 2023-24 | 850 | 38.9 | 21.8:1 | 92% (783) |
| 2022-23 | 872 | 39.6 | 22.0:1 | 94% (822) |
| 2020-21 | 871 | 36 | 24.2:1 | 99% (860) |
| 2017-18 | 947 | 39 | 24.3:1 | 75% (706) |
| 2015-16 | 818 | 35 | 23.4:1 | 74% (603) |
| 2010-11 | 753 | N/A | N/A | 77% (577) |
| 2000-01 | 678 | 37 | 18.3:1 | 78% (526) |
| 1990-91 | 536 | 20 | 26.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cielo Vista Charter.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (947 to 824); teachers up 5% (39 to 40.8).
About Cielo Vista Charter
Cielo Vista Charter sits in Palm Springs, California, and is classified as an elementary school. Its enrollment is 824 students, spread over kindergarten through 8. Elementary schools in California average about 465 students, which makes this school 77% larger than average.
A total of 27 schools make up Palm Springs Unified, with 20,007 students enrolled.
Hispanic students account for 82% of the school's enrollment. It is also 8% White, 5% Asian, and 3% multiracial. Riverside County's residents are about 51% Hispanic, 31 points below the school's share. A diversity index of 32% means there is a 32% chance two randomly chosen students at Cielo Vista Charter are from different groups.
Cielo Vista Charter lists 40.8 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 20.2 students per teacher. Across elementary schools in California, the average ratio is 22.3:1. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 93% of the student body. Among public schools in Riverside County, the average eligibility rate is 74%.
Cielo Vista Charter earns an A on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 91% of California public elementary schools.
On BeatsExpectations, which compares test results with what a school's student poverty level would predict, Cielo Vista Charter ranks in the top 10% in California. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 50.7%, against a prediction of 25.2%.
The county, Riverside County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $93,074, about 26% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 8%. The county's public schools total 543, with about 424,872 students.
About 1.0 miles separate Cielo Vista Charter from the closest public school, Agua Caliente Elementary. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Cielo Vista Charter is 1st of 7 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more. The school is classified as a charter school in federal data.
Over 4 years, enrollment fell by 47 students, from 871 to 824. Students per teacher dropped from 24.2 in 2020-21 to 20.2 in 2024-25.
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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
- Raymond Cree MiddleMiddle · 721 students
- Katherine Finchy ElementaryElementary · 464 students
- Vista del Monte ElementaryElementary · 435 students
- Cahuilla ElementaryElementary · 399 students
- Desert Learning AcademyCombined · 317 students
Nearby schools
- Agua Caliente Elementary1.0 mi · 645
- Palm Springs High1.2 mi · 1,497
- Desert Learning Academy1.3 mi · 317
- Mt. San Jacinto High1.7 mi · 325
- Landau Elementary1.9 mi · 579
- Cahuilla Elementary2.2 mi · 399
Frequently asked questions
About Cielo Vista CharterHow large is Cielo Vista Charter?
Cielo Vista Charter enrolls approximately 824 students in grades KG-08.
What age range does Cielo Vista Charter serve?
Cielo Vista Charter serves students from grade KG through grade 08.
How many teachers does Cielo Vista Charter have?
Cielo Vista Charter employs 41 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 20.2:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Cielo Vista Charter?
At Cielo Vista Charter, the student body is approximately 8% White, 82% Hispanic, 2% Black, 5% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Cielo Vista Charter?
Cielo Vista Charter 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.