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Enrollment
1,497
High
DISTRICT 1,249 · STATE 838
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PALM SPRINGS UNIFIED·NCES 062955004569
Palm Springs High
2401 East Baristo Rd., Palm Springs, CA 92262 · (760) 778-0400 · Riverside County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,497 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 51% of California public high schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- DThree-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 high schools
Student : Teacher
21.0:1
71 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.0:1 · STATE 18.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
96%
1,433 students
DISTRICT 94% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 356 | 24% |
| Grade 10 | 356 | 24% |
| Grade 11 | 392 | 26% |
| Grade 12 | 393 | 26% |
Student demographics
45%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 31% · 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
53.1%
CA avg 49.1% . +3.1pp since 2014
Math
18.6%
CA avg 37.7% . -6.4pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 19 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 6 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 20.4% | 32.7% | 27.8% | 19.0% |
| Math | 5.3% | 13.2% | 21.4% | 60.0% |
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 | 53.1% | 18.6% |
| 2023-24 | 52.4% | 20.7% |
| 2022-23 | 58.6% | 24.9% |
| 2021-22 | 62.4% | 24.0% |
| 2020-21 | 51.2% | 29.7% |
| 2018-19 | 61.2% | 33.2% |
| 2017-18 | 57.5% | 30.6% |
| 2016-17 | 63.1% | 34.1% |
| 2015-16 | 55.0% | 26.0% |
| 2014-15 | 50.0% | 25.0% |
% 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
36.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
23.4%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 23% 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 Palm Springs High
Palm Springs High's state test result (36.2% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palm Springs High this school | 1,497 | 95.7% | 36.2% |
| Desert Hot Springs High Desert Hot Springs | 1,687 | 96.1% | 33.1% |
| Banning High Banning | 1,145 | 91.5% | 28.4% |
| San Gorgonio High San Bernardino | 1,431 | 91.6% | 29.8% |
| Fresno High Fresno | 1,867 | 88.5% | 25.0% |
| West Valley High Hemet | 1,857 | 90.1% | 31.0% |
Matched among California high 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 Palm Springs High ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Riverside County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.2% | #634 of 1,052 | #27 of 60 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 18.6% | #716 of 1,056 ▼ 125 | #31 of 60 ▼ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.1% | #630 of 1,056 ▼ 33 | #33 of 60 ▼ 4 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -7.3pp | #76 of 1,044 | #5 of 59 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,497 | #567 of 2,093 | #48 of 100 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.0:1 | #691 of 1,352 | #24 of 75 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 45.0% | #766 of 1,351 | #31 of 75 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 95.7% | #103 of 1,575 | #4 of 89 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.7% | #307 of 802 | #17 of 48 |
Ranked against other public high 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
1,497
-92 (-6%) vs 2020
-51% since 1990-91, when it was 3,055
Student : Teacher
21.0:1
was 23.4:1
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 | 1,497 | 71.3 | 21.0:1 | 96% (1,433) |
| 2023-24 | 1,508 | 70.1 | 21.5:1 | 95% (1,432) |
| 2022-23 | 1,584 | 69.4 | 22.8:1 | 97% (1,531) |
| 2020-21 | 1,589 | 68 | 23.4:1 | 95% (1,504) |
| 2017-18 | 1,755 | 74.2 | 23.6:1 | 76% (1,341) |
| 2015-16 | 1,778 | 69 | 25.8:1 | 69% (1,221) |
| 2010-11 | 2,196 | N/A | N/A | 63% (1,392) |
| 2000-01 | 1,850 | 77 | 24.0:1 | 40% (737) |
| 1990-91 | 3,055 | 136 | 22.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Palm Springs High.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (1,755 to 1,497); teachers down 4% (74.2 to 71.3).
About Palm Springs High
Palm Springs High operates as a large high school in Palm Springs, California. The school's enrollment of 1,497 students covers grades 9 through 12. Statewide, high schools in California average about 838 students each.
Palm Springs Unified oversees Palm Springs High and 26 other schools, with 20,007 students in total.
Hispanic students are the majority at Palm Springs High, with 73% of enrollment. Other groups include 12% White, 7% Black, 4% Asian, and 3% multiracial. The county population is about 51% Hispanic. Palm Springs High's diversity index is 45%, against a US figure of 70%.
Palm Springs High's 71.3 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 21.0:1. On average, high schools in California have 18.2:1, compared with 21.0:1 here. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 96%. The rate at public schools in Riverside County averages 74%, lower than here.
allk12 grades Palm Springs High a B-. The grade compares the school only with California public high schools, because each state gives its own test.
The model predicts 23.4% for a school in California with Palm Springs High's free or reduced-price lunch share. Palm Springs High posts 36.2%.
Palm Springs High is located in Riverside County, where the median household income is $93,074, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 26%, and roughly 8% of residents are in poverty. Besides Palm Springs High, Riverside County has 542 other public schools.
The nearest other public school, Desert Learning Academy, is about 0.1 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. On state test proficiency, Palm Springs High ranks 3rd in a group of 7 nearby schools.
NCES assigns Palm Springs High the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment is down 6% from 2020-21, when Palm Springs High had 1,589 students, to 2024-25, when it had 1,497. Students per teacher fell from 23.4 in 2020-21 to 21.0 in 2024-25.
Questions about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news can be posted here. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
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 Palm Springs Unified
- Desert Hot Springs HighHigh · 1,687 students
- Rancho Mirage HighHigh · 1,401 students
- Cathedral City HighHigh · 1,334 students
- James Workman MiddleMiddle · 1,020 students
- Nellie N. Coffman MiddleMiddle · 914 students
- Cielo Vista CharterElementary · 824 students
Other schools in Palm Springs
- Cielo Vista CharterElementary · 824 students
- Raymond Cree MiddleMiddle · 721 students
- Katherine Finchy ElementaryElementary · 464 students
- Vista del Monte ElementaryElementary · 435 students
- Cahuilla ElementaryElementary · 399 students
- Desert Learning AcademyCombined · 317 students
Nearby schools
- Desert Learning Academy0.1 mi · 317
- Cahuilla Elementary1.2 mi · 399
- Cielo Vista Charter1.2 mi · 824
- Katherine Finchy Elementary1.6 mi · 464
- Agua Caliente Elementary1.9 mi · 645
- Raymond Cree Middle2.0 mi · 721
Frequently asked questions
About Palm Springs HighHow many students attend Palm Springs High?
Palm Springs High enrolls approximately 1,497 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does Palm Springs High serve?
Palm Springs High serves grades 09-12.
How many students per teacher at Palm Springs High?
Approximately 21.0:1 students per teacher at Palm Springs High.
How diverse is Palm Springs High?
Palm Springs High reports a student body of 12% White, 73% Hispanic, 7% Black, 4% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Palm Springs High in?
Palm Springs High is part of Palm Springs Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.