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What's the vibe like in the hallways at Vista del Monte Elementary right now?
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Enrollment
435
Elementary
DISTRICT 583 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PALM SPRINGS UNIFIED·NCES 062955004571
Vista del Monte Elementary
2744 North Via Miraleste, Palm Springs, CA 92262 · (760) 416-8176 · Riverside County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL435 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 15% of California public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- FThree-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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
19.1:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.8:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
95%
415 students
DISTRICT 94% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 70 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 68 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 67 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 59 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 85 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 86 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (70) is 19% smaller than its 5th grade class (86).
Student demographics
19%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
20.6%
CA avg 49.1% . -13.4pp since 2014
Math
18.9%
CA avg 37.7% . -10.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 21 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 down about 13 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 10 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 9.0% | 11.6% | 20.2% | 59.2% |
| Math | 4.3% | 14.6% | 28.3% | 52.8% |
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 | 20.6% | 18.9% |
| 2023-24 | 27.3% | 23.9% |
| 2022-23 | 27.2% | 22.1% |
| 2021-22 | 35.9% | 30.3% |
| 2018-19 | 49.3% | 44.2% |
| 2017-18 | 45.1% | 33.5% |
| 2016-17 | 39.4% | 39.0% |
| 2015-16 | 42.0% | 37.0% |
| 2014-15 | 34.0% | 29.0% |
% 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
22.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
23.6%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 24% 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 Vista del Monte Elementary
Vista del Monte Elementary's state test result (22.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vista del Monte Elementary this school | 435 | 95.4% | 22.4% |
| Elsinore Elementary Lake Elsinore | 462 | 95.2% | 16.6% |
| Maryland Elementary Vista | 466 | 94.4% | 21.8% |
| Cohasset Street Elementary Lake Balboa | 451 | 95.1% | 28.7% |
| Van Nuys Elementary Van Nuys | 459 | 96.9% | 32.0% |
| Canoga Park Elementary Canoga Park | 462 | 96.3% | 19.6% |
Matched among California elementary 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 Vista del Monte Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Riverside County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 22.4% | #4,350 of 5,151 | #229 of 283 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 18.9% | #4,404 of 5,172 ▼ 650 | #226 of 283 ▼ 42 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 20.6% | #4,804 of 5,172 ▼ 712 | #270 of 283 ▼ 49 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -13.3pp | #47 of 5,116 | #1 of 280 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 435 | #3,223 of 5,915 | #265 of 296 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.1:1 | #556 of 5,352 | #6 of 292 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 18.9% | #4,483 of 5,354 | #241 of 292 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 95.4% | #401 of 5,625 | #15 of 294 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.5% | #1,964 of 3,837 | #95 of 207 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
435
-118 (-21%) vs 2020
-37% since 1990-91, when it was 692
Student : Teacher
19.1:1
was 23.0:1
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 | 435 | 22.8 | 19.1:1 | 95% (415) |
| 2023-24 | 471 | 25.3 | 18.6:1 | 94% (445) |
| 2022-23 | 482 | 26 | 18.5:1 | 96% (465) |
| 2020-21 | 553 | 24 | 23.0:1 | 96% (529) |
| 2017-18 | 515 | 23 | 22.4:1 | 93% (480) |
| 2015-16 | 473 | 18 | 26.3:1 | 90% (426) |
| 2010-11 | 466 | N/A | N/A | 88% (409) |
| 2000-01 | 758 | 38 | 19.9:1 | 79% (597) |
| 1990-91 | 692 | 25 | 27.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Vista del Monte Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (515 to 435); teachers down 1% (23 to 22.8).
About Vista del Monte Elementary
Vista del Monte Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school in Palm Springs, California, under Palm Springs Unified. Total enrollment is 435 students, and the grades served are kindergarten through 5.
The 27 schools of Palm Springs Unified, including Vista del Monte Elementary, enroll 20,007 students.
The share of students at Vista del Monte Elementary who are Hispanic is 90%. Enrollment also includes 5% White and 2% multiracial. Among people living in Riverside County, the Hispanic share is about 51%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 19, compared with 70 nationally.
With 22.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 19.1:1. Elementary schools in California have an average ratio of 22.3:1. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at Vista del Monte Elementary, 95% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is above the 74% average among public schools in Riverside County.
Vista del Monte Elementary earns a C- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 15% of California public elementary schools.
After adjusting for student poverty, Vista del Monte Elementary lands between the top and bottom 10% of California schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 22.4%; the prediction is 23.6%.
Riverside County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $93,074 a year, roughly 26% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. Vista del Monte Elementary shares Riverside County with 542 other public schools.
A public school about 0.8 miles away, Raymond Cree Middle, is the closest to Vista del Monte Elementary. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Of 8 schools in the immediate area with test results, Vista del Monte Elementary ranks 8th on average proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment fell by 21% across 4 years, from 553 in 2020-21 to 435 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 23.0:1 in 2020-21 to 19.1:1 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
- Raymond Cree MiddleMiddle · 721 students
- Katherine Finchy ElementaryElementary · 464 students
- Cahuilla ElementaryElementary · 399 students
- Desert Learning AcademyCombined · 317 students
Nearby schools
- Raymond Cree Middle0.8 mi · 721
- Katherine Finchy Elementary1.3 mi · 464
- Palm Springs High2.8 mi · 1,497
- Desert Learning Academy2.9 mi · 317
- Cahuilla Elementary3.3 mi · 399
- Rio Vista Elementary3.4 mi · 637
Frequently asked questions
About Vista del Monte ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Vista del Monte Elementary?
Vista del Monte Elementary enrolls approximately 435 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Vista del Monte Elementary serve?
Vista del Monte Elementary serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Vista del Monte Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Vista del Monte Elementary is approximately 19.1:1 (23 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Vista del Monte Elementary?
At Vista del Monte Elementary, the student body is approximately 5% White, 90% Hispanic, 2% Black, 0% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Vista del Monte Elementary public or private?
Vista del Monte Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Palm Springs Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.