# Desert Sands Charter

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060178408714`
- **School name**: Desert Sands Charter
- **Location**: Lancaster, CA 93534
- **Address**: 44130 20th St. West
- **District**: Desert Sands Charter District (LEAID `0601784`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 8–12
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 34.68482, -118.16396
- **Phone**: (661)942-3357

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 727
- **Teachers (FTE)**: N/A
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 78.7%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Red
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: Orange
  - math: Red
  - college_career: Red
  - ela: Orange
  - graduation: Red

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 42.7% proficient — 107 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 24.4% (cohort of 250)
- **2021**: 17.0% (cohort of 249)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 1

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 78.4% (628 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 5.9% (41 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 56.8%
- **Black/African American**: 0.2%
- **Asian**: 18.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 17.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 6.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 83.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 22.2% — 153 students
- **English Learners**: 9.1% — 63 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $41,392,908
- **Federal share**: 7.9%
- **State share**: 81.3%
- **Local share**: 10.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $22,065,248

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $64,688
- **Poverty rate**: 18.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 24.9%
- **Unemployment**: 8.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,505
- **Foreign-born residents**: 12.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 12.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 24.2 miles (EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 3
- **Nearest brownfield**: 31.40 miles (ONATE SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LAND PROJECTS MUTUAL WATER CO.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 108
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-04-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 4.79801 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Lancaster Alternative and Virtual Academies** — 0.6 mi away, 3.7% (this school: 5.94%)
- **Empower Generations** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 5.94%)
- **SOAR High (Students On Academic Rise)** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 5.94%)
- **Lancaster High** — 1.6 mi away, 0.41% (this school: 5.94%)
- **Antelope Valley High** — 2.2 mi away, 0.53% (this school: 5.94%)

### ela proficiency
- **John and Jacquelyn Miller Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 41.25% (this school: 40.35%)
- **Sierra Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 47.1% (this school: 40.35%)
- **SOAR High (Students On Academic Rise)** — 1.4 mi away, 75.65% (this school: 40.35%)
- **Fulton and Alsbury Academy of Arts and Engineering** — 3.0 mi away, 61.4% (this school: 40.35%)
- **Quartz Hill Elementary** — 4.2 mi away, 57.55% (this school: 40.35%)

### graduation rate
- **Empower Generations** — 1.0 mi away, 60% (this school: 24.4%)
- **SOAR High (Students On Academic Rise)** — 1.4 mi away, 99.1% (this school: 24.4%)
- **Lancaster High** — 1.6 mi away, 85.1% (this school: 24.4%)
- **Antelope Valley High** — 2.2 mi away, 82.5% (this school: 24.4%)
- **Assurance Learning Academy** — 2.3 mi away, 28.8% (this school: 24.4%)

### math proficiency
- **Sunnydale Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **John and Jacquelyn Miller Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Sierra Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 20%)
- **SOAR High (Students On Academic Rise)** — 1.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 20%)
- **Lancaster High** — 1.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/desert-sands-charter-lancaster
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/desert-sands-charter-lancaster/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/desert-sands-charter-lancaster/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/desert-sands-charter-lancaster/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/desert-sands-charter-lancaster/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/desert-sands-charter-lancaster/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/desert-sands-charter-lancaster/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/desert-sands-charter-lancaster/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/desert-sands-charter-lancaster/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/desert-sands-charter-lancaster/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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