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How has Raymond Cree Middle changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
721
Middle
DISTRICT 825 · STATE 659
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PALM SPRINGS UNIFIED·NCES 062955004564
Raymond Cree Middle
1011 Vista Chino, Palm Springs, CA 92262 · (760) 416-8283 · Riverside County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL721 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 58% of California public middle 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.
- CThree-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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
19.7:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.7:1 · STATE 20.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
97%
700 students
DISTRICT 94% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 237 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 244 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 240 | 33% |
Student demographics
43%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
38.0%
CA avg 49.1% . +6.0pp since 2014
Math
26.8%
CA avg 37.7% . +7.8pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 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 6 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 8 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 11.8% | 26.2% | 24.9% | 37.1% |
| Math | 12.7% | 14.1% | 21.4% | 51.8% |
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 | 38.0% | 26.8% |
| 2023-24 | 38.4% | 25.4% |
| 2022-23 | 37.8% | 25.4% |
| 2021-22 | 40.6% | 25.0% |
| 2018-19 | 43.3% | 27.9% |
| 2017-18 | 39.6% | 29.2% |
| 2016-17 | 32.6% | 22.5% |
| 2015-16 | 35.0% | 21.0% |
| 2014-15 | 32.0% | 19.0% |
% 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
32.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.7%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% 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 Raymond Cree Middle
Raymond Cree Middle's state test result (32.2% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raymond Cree Middle this school | 721 | 97.1% | 32.2% |
| Painted Hills Middle Desert Hot Springs | 722 | 97.2% | 18.2% |
| Desert Springs Middle Desert Hot Springs | 749 | 96.7% | 16.2% |
| Upland Junior High Upland | 599 | 91.3% | 24.1% |
| Greenfield Middle Bakersfield | 873 | 95.6% | 30.6% |
| University Heights Middle Riverside | 870 | 91.4% | 28.4% |
Matched among California middle 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 Raymond Cree Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Riverside County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.2% | #684 of 1,224 | #32 of 78 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.8% | #676 of 1,227 ▼ 25 | #31 of 78 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 38.0% | #771 of 1,227 ▼ 75 | #41 of 78 ▼ 8 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -0.4pp | #340 of 1,214 | #18 of 77 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 721 | #564 of 1,377 | #64 of 79 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.7:1 | #426 of 1,279 | #6 of 78 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 43.1% | #774 of 1,278 | #40 of 77 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 97.1% | #44 of 1,329 | #4 of 78 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.7% | #578 of 930 | #36 of 61 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
721
-58 (-7%) vs 2020
-37% since 1990-91, when it was 1,149
Student : Teacher
19.7:1
was 22.3:1
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 | 721 | 36.6 | 19.7:1 | 97% (700) |
| 2023-24 | 710 | 36.7 | 19.3:1 | 98% (694) |
| 2022-23 | 708 | 34.8 | 20.4:1 | 98% (691) |
| 2020-21 | 779 | 35 | 22.3:1 | 100% (776) |
| 2017-18 | 826 | 38.9 | 21.2:1 | 85% (706) |
| 2015-16 | 886 | 38 | 23.3:1 | 83% (733) |
| 2010-11 | 997 | N/A | N/A | 80% (793) |
| 2000-01 | 1,130 | 45 | 25.1:1 | 62% (706) |
| 1990-91 | 1,149 | 49 | 23.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Raymond Cree Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (826 to 721); teachers down 6% (38.9 to 36.6).
About Raymond Cree Middle
Raymond Cree Middle runs as a mid-sized middle school in Palm Springs, California. There are 721 students enrolled, covering grades 6 through 8.
Across its 27 schools, Palm Springs Unified enrolls 20,007 students. Raymond Cree Middle is one of those schools.
At Raymond Cree Middle, 74% of students are Hispanic. Smaller groups are 11% White, 7% Black, 5% multiracial, and 3% Asian. For comparison, the population of Riverside County is roughly 51% Hispanic. The diversity index for Raymond Cree Middle is 43%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
There are about 19.7 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Raymond Cree Middle, which has 36.6. By comparison, the average for middle schools in California is 20.7:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Raymond Cree Middle is about 97%. The rate at public schools in Riverside County averages 74%, lower than here.
Among California public middle schools, Raymond Cree Middle outscored 58%, which works out to a B on the allk12 Grade.
A school with Raymond Cree Middle's lunch-eligibility share in California is predicted to score 22.7%. Raymond Cree Middle scores 32.2%, 9.5 points above that line.
The school is in Riverside County, where median household income comes to about $93,074, roughly 26% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. Riverside County counts 543 public schools with about 424,872 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Katherine Finchy Elementary, is about 0.5 miles. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Raymond Cree Middle is 5th of 8 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment decreased 7% over 4 years, reaching 721 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 22.3:1 in 2020-21 to 19.7:1 in 2024-25.
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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
- Palm Springs HighHigh · 1,497 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
Other schools in Palm Springs
- Palm Springs HighHigh · 1,497 students
- Cielo Vista CharterElementary · 824 students
- Katherine Finchy ElementaryElementary · 464 students
- Vista del Monte ElementaryElementary · 435 students
- Cahuilla ElementaryElementary · 399 students
- Desert Learning AcademyCombined · 317 students
Nearby schools
- Katherine Finchy Elementary0.5 mi · 464
- Vista del Monte Elementary0.8 mi · 435
- Palm Springs High2.0 mi · 1,497
- Desert Learning Academy2.1 mi · 317
- Cahuilla Elementary2.5 mi · 399
- Cielo Vista Charter2.9 mi · 824
Frequently asked questions
About Raymond Cree MiddleHow many students attend Raymond Cree Middle?
Raymond Cree Middle enrolls approximately 721 students in grades 06-08.
Is Raymond Cree Middle an elementary, middle, or high school?
Raymond Cree Middle is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Raymond Cree Middle?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Raymond Cree Middle is approximately 19.7:1 (37 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Raymond Cree Middle?
Student demographics at Raymond Cree Middle are roughly 11% White, 74% Hispanic, 7% Black, 3% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Raymond Cree Middle in?
Raymond Cree Middle is part of Palm Springs Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.