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Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8

Painted Hills Middle, Desert Hot Springs, CA

CEP schoolPainted Hills Middle is a public middle school in Desert Hot Springs, part of Palm Springs Unified. It enrolled 722 students in 2024-25, with 21.9 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
722
Teachers (FTE)
33.0
Students per teacher
21.9
Grades
6 to 8

This school's ratio is 1.9 higher than 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 school21.9
District20.0
California21.9
United States15.3

School details

Address
9250 Sonora Dr., Desert Hot Springs, CA 92240
Phone
(760)251-1551
District
Palm Springs Unified
County
Riverside County
Level
Middle
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Town: Fringe
NCES school ID
062955012795
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
702
Reduced-price lunch
0
Free or reduced-price lunch
70297.2% of enrollment.
Direct certification
478Students 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 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.