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Cabot Yerxa Elementary, Desert Hot Springs, CA

CEP schoolCabot Yerxa Elementary is a public elementary school in Desert Hot Springs, part of Palm Springs Unified. It enrolled 664 students in 2024-25, with 20.8 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
664
Teachers (FTE)
32.0
Students per teacher
20.8
Grades
K to 5

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 20.0. The California average across schools is 21.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school20.8
District20.0
California21.9
United States15.3

School details

Address
67067 Desert View, Desert Hot Springs, CA 92240
Phone
(760)251-2223
District
Palm Springs Unified
County
Riverside County
Level
Elementary
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Town: Fringe
NCES school ID
062955012316
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
627
Reduced-price lunch
0
Free or reduced-price lunch
62794.4% of enrollment.
Direct certification
455Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other elementary schools in Palm Springs Unified

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.