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High · Regular · Grades 8 to 12

Desert Sands Charter, Lancaster, CA

Charter schoolDesert Sands Charter is a public high school in Lancaster, part of Desert Sands Charter District. It enrolled 727 students in 2024-25.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
727
Grades
8 to 12

School details

Address
44130 20th St. West, Lancaster, CA 93534
County
Los Angeles County
Level
High
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
Yes
Virtual
No
Locale
Suburb: Large
NCES school ID
060178408714
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
520
Reduced-price lunch
52
Free or reduced-price lunch
57278.7% of enrollment.
Direct certification
401Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.

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

High schools elsewhere in Lancaster

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.