Julius Corsini Elementary

Set in Desert Hot Springs, California, Julius Corsini Elementary is a moderately sized elementary campus, run under Palm Springs Unified. It hosts 397 students across grades K through 5.

Across the 27 schools in Palm Springs Unified (20,007 students total), Julius Corsini Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Julius Corsini Elementary shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 76%; the rest breaks down as 10% White, 9% Black, 6% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

On the resource side, The school lists 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Riverside County's rate of about 74%.

After controlling for student poverty, Julius Corsini Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.0%, the actual is 12.5%, a residual of -12.5 points.

In the surrounding community, Riverside County reports that the typical household earns roughly $93,074 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Riverside County runs 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), of which Julius Corsini Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Bubbling Wells Elementary, around 1.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Julius Corsini Elementary. On composite proficiency, Julius Corsini Elementary comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 23.4%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Julius Corsini Elementary has contracted 13%, going from 455 students in 2018 to 397 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 22.8:1 in 2018 to 19.2:1 in 2025.

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