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Which teacher or staff member at Harry S. Truman Elementary deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
635
Elementary
DISTRICT 573 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DESERT SANDS UNIFIED·NCES 061111008820
Harry S. Truman Elementary
78-870 Avenue 50, La Quinta, CA 92253 · (760) 777-4230 · Riverside County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL635 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 65% 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.
- 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.
- A-Three-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
25.4:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.4:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
80%
509 students
DISTRICT 79% · 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 | 112 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 104 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 85 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 111 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 112 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 111 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (112) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (111).
Student demographics
39%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 39% · 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
45.0%
CA avg 49.1% . -2.0pp since 2014
Math
37.9%
CA avg 37.7% . +1.9pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 2 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 19.9% | 25.1% | 20.8% | 34.3% |
| Math | 11.6% | 26.3% | 24.8% | 37.3% |
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 | 45.0% | 37.9% |
| 2023-24 | 38.9% | 36.2% |
| 2022-23 | 37.2% | 32.4% |
| 2021-22 | 39.0% | 29.4% |
| 2018-19 | 57.5% | 49.4% |
| 2017-18 | 58.8% | 47.6% |
| 2016-17 | 51.9% | 47.6% |
| 2015-16 | 60.0% | 47.0% |
| 2014-15 | 47.0% | 36.0% |
% 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
39.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.6%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% 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 Harry S. Truman Elementary
Harry S. Truman Elementary's state test result (39.7% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harry S. Truman Elementary this school | 635 | 80.2% | 39.7% |
| Veva Blunt Elementary Visalia | 596 | 78.5% | 27.3% |
| Benjamin Franklin Elementary La Quinta | 627 | 82.1% | 32.3% |
| Crestwood Elementary Visalia | 594 | 78.3% | 31.2% |
| Cunningham Elementary Turlock | 597 | 79.4% | 18.4% |
| Las Palmas Elementary Patterson | 642 | 83.6% | 26.1% |
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 Harry S. Truman Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Riverside County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.7% | #2,517 of 5,151 | #100 of 283 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 37.9% | #2,449 of 5,172 ▲ 40 | #90 of 283 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 45.0% | #2,451 of 5,172 ▲ 378 | #102 of 283 ▲ 20 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +7.2pp | #1,079 of 5,116 | #56 of 280 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 635 | #1,122 of 5,915 | #147 of 296 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 25.4:1 | #4,615 of 5,352 | #263 of 292 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 39.0% | #3,502 of 5,354 | #163 of 292 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 80.2% | #2,175 of 5,625 | #166 of 294 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.5% | #3,257 of 3,837 | #176 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
635
-29 (-4%) vs 2020
-4% since 1990-91, when it was 661
Student : Teacher
25.4:1
was 22.9:1
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 | 635 | 25 | 25.4:1 | 80% (509) |
| 2023-24 | 644 | 25 | 25.8:1 | 80% (517) |
| 2022-23 | 666 | 27 | 24.7:1 | 80% (530) |
| 2020-21 | 664 | 29 | 22.9:1 | 84% (555) |
| 2017-18 | 672 | 26 | 25.9:1 | 76% (512) |
| 2015-16 | 514 | 22 | 23.4:1 | 77% (394) |
| 2010-11 | 612 | N/A | N/A | 64% (390) |
| 2000-01 | 1,067 | 54 | 19.8:1 | 41% (441) |
| 1990-91 | 661 | 25 | 26.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Harry S. Truman Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (672 to 635); teachers down 4% (26 to 25).
About Harry S. Truman Elementary
The public elementary school Harry S. Truman Elementary is located in La Quinta, California. There are 635 students enrolled, covering kindergarten through 5. That puts enrollment 37% above the 465-student average for elementary schools in California.
Desert Sands Unified oversees Harry S. Truman Elementary and 33 other schools, with 25,613 students in total.
The share of Hispanic students at Harry S. Truman Elementary is 77%, a majority. It is also 11% White and 8% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Riverside County is roughly 51% Hispanic. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 39%.
On staff are 25 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 25.4:1. Elementary schools in California average 22.3:1, 3.1 fewer students per teacher than here. Harry S. Truman Elementary has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 80%.
Among California public elementary schools, Harry S. Truman Elementary outscored 65%, which works out to a B+ on the allk12 Grade.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 32.6% for Harry S. Truman Elementary. The school posts 39.7%, 7.1 points above the prediction.
The school's county is Riverside County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $93,074 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 26% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. Public schools in Riverside County number 543, with about 424,872 students.
The closest school to Harry S. Truman Elementary is La Quinta Middle, located about 0.1 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On proficiency, Harry S. Truman Elementary is ahead of the 36.5% nearby average, ranking 4th of 9.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment figures show a decline of 29 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25. The school's ratio increased from 22.9:1 to 25.4:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on athletics, class schedules, and weather closures here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 Desert Sands Unified
- La Quinta HighHigh · 2,425 students
- Palm Desert HighHigh · 2,079 students
- Indio HighHigh · 1,962 students
- Shadow Hills HighHigh · 1,650 students
- Palm Desert Charter MiddleMiddle · 1,298 students
- John Glenn Middle School of International StudiesMiddle · 1,099 students
Other schools in La Quinta
- La Quinta HighHigh · 2,425 students
- La Quinta MiddleMiddle · 709 students
- Benjamin Franklin ElementaryElementary · 627 students
- Colonel Mitchell Paige MiddleMiddle · 439 students
- HorizonCombined · 286 students
- Summit High (Continuation)High · 195 students
Other Harry S. Truman Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 3 states are named Harry S. Truman Elementary. Harry S. Truman Elementary is the largest of the 4.
- HARRY S. TRUMAN ELEM.ROLLA, MO · 448 students
- Harry S. Truman Elementary SchoolPARLIN, NJ · 425 students
- HARRY S. TRUMAN ELEM.WEBB CITY, MO · 287 students
Nearby schools
- La Quinta Middle0.1 mi · 709
- Benjamin Franklin Elementary1.2 mi · 627
- La Quinta High1.9 mi · 2,425
- Mountain Vista Elementary2.4 mi · 599
- Amelia Earhart Elementary School of International Studies2.4 mi · 748
- John Glenn Middle School of International Studies2.5 mi · 1,099
Frequently asked questions
About Harry S. Truman ElementaryHow many students attend Harry S. Truman Elementary?
Harry S. Truman Elementary enrolls approximately 635 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Harry S. Truman Elementary serve?
Harry S. Truman Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Harry S. Truman Elementary?
Approximately 25.4:1 students per teacher at Harry S. Truman Elementary.
How diverse is Harry S. Truman Elementary?
Harry S. Truman Elementary reports a student body of 11% White, 77% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is Harry S. Truman Elementary public or private?
Harry S. Truman Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Desert Sands Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.