Landau Elementary

Landau Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in Cathedral City, California, overseen by Palm Springs Unified. The school hosts 579 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Landau Elementary sits 25% larger than that benchmark.

Landau Elementary is one of 27 schools operated by Palm Springs Unified, a district that serves 20,007 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Landau Elementary records that nearly all students (82%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 7% Asian, 7% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

On the resource side, Landau Elementary shows 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Landau Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 94% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Riverside County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Landau Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.4%, the actual is 32.8%, a residual of +9.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Riverside County shows median household earnings sit near $93,074, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Landau Elementary is one of 543 public schools in Riverside County (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students).

The closest other public school is Mt. San Jacinto High, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Landau Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Landau Elementary at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 37.2%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Landau Elementary has declined 23%, going from 750 students in 2018 to 579 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share fell from 86% to 82%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 22.7:1 in 2018 to 19.7:1 today.

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