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High · Regular · Grades 9 to 12

Palm Desert High, Palm Desert, CA

CEP schoolPalm Desert High is a public high school in Palm Desert, part of Desert Sands Unified. It enrolled 2,079 students in 2024-25, with 26.3 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
2,079
Teachers (FTE)
79.0
Students per teacher
26.3
Grades
9 to 12

This school's ratio is 2.6 higher than 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.

This school26.3
District23.7
California21.9
United States15.3

School details

Address
74-910 Aztec Rd., Palm Desert, CA 92260
Phone
(760)862-4300
District
Desert Sands Unified
County
Riverside County
Level
High
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
City: Small
NCES school ID
061111008819
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
926
Reduced-price lunch
325
Free or reduced-price lunch
1,25160.2% of enrollment.
Direct certification
638Students 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 high schools in Desert Sands 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.