Harry S. Truman Elementary

Located at 78-870 Avenue 50, in La Quinta, California, Harry S. Truman Elementary is a moderately sized elementary school that teaches 635 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within Desert Sands Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Harry S. Truman Elementary sits 37% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Desert Sands Unified, which oversees 34 schools and 25,613 students, Harry S. Truman Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Harry S. Truman Elementary lists that 77% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder breaks down as 11% White, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 51% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Harry S. Truman Elementary shows 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 25.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 80% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Harry S. Truman Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.7%; this one delivers 37.9%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Riverside County put median household earnings sit near $93,074, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Riverside County's 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), Harry S. Truman Elementary is one campus in the mix.

La Quinta Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Harry S. Truman Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 35.6%.

Harry S. Truman Elementary operates from a suburban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 6%: 672 students in 2018 compared to 635 in 2025.

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