Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8
Desert Ridge Academy, Indio, CA
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 962
- Teachers (FTE)
- 40.0
- Students per teacher
- 24.1
- Grades
- 6 to 8
This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 23.7. The California average across schools is 21.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 79-767 Avenue 39, Indio, CA 92203
- Phone
- (760)393-5500
- District
- Desert Sands Unified
- County
- Riverside County
- Level
- Middle
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Rural: Fringe
- NCES school ID
- 061111012396
School meals
- Free lunch
- 634
- Reduced-price lunch
- 150
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 78481.5% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 449Students 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 middle schools in Desert Sands Unified
- Palm Desert Charter Middle 1,298 students
- John Glenn Middle School of International Studies 1,099 students
- Indio Middle 768 students
- La Quinta Middle 709 students
- Thomas Jefferson Middle 591 students
- Colonel Mitchell Paige Middle 439 students
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.