Two Bunch Palms Elementary

As a roomy elementary campus in Desert Hot Springs, California, Two Bunch Palms Elementary teaches 717 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within Palm Springs Unified. Enrollment runs roughly 54% larger than the state mean of about 465.

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

Looking at the student body, Two Bunch Palms Elementary logs that nearly all students (87%) are Hispanic. The remainder breaks down as 7% White, 3% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Riverside County as a whole is about 51% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.8:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 93% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Riverside County (around 74%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Two Bunch Palms Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.8%, the actual is 22.1%, a residual of -1.7 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Riverside County shows median household earnings sit near $93,074, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Riverside County runs 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), of which Two Bunch Palms Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Desert Springs Middle, roughly 0.7 miles away. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Two Bunch Palms Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 21.1%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 10%: 799 students in 2018 compared to 717 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 22.2:1 in 2018 to 19.8:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.