Dr. Reynaldo J. Carreon Jr. Academy

As a medium-sized elementary-level community in Indio, California, Dr. Reynaldo J. Carreon Jr. Academy instructs 592 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within Desert Sands Unified. That puts it 27% larger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Within Desert Sands Unified, which oversees 34 schools and 25,613 students, Dr. Reynaldo J. Carreon Jr. Academy is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Dr. Reynaldo J. Carreon Jr. Academy records that 92% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder looks like 3% Asian, 2% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 81% of students at Dr. Reynaldo J. Carreon Jr. Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Dr. Reynaldo J. Carreon Jr. Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.2%, the actual is 29.4%, a residual of -1.8 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Riverside County shows the typical household earns roughly $93,074 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Riverside County runs 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), of which Dr. Reynaldo J. Carreon Jr. Academy is one.

The closest other public school is Indio High, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Dr. Reynaldo J. Carreon Jr. Academy. On composite proficiency, Dr. Reynaldo J. Carreon Jr. Academy comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 17.7%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 18%: 722 students in 2018 compared to 592 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 24.1:1 in 2018 to 22.8:1 today.

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