# La Quinta High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061111003582`
- **School name**: La Quinta High
- **Location**: La Quinta, CA 92253
- **Address**: 79-255 Blackhawk Way
- **District**: Desert Sands Unified (LEAID `0611110`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 33.71336, -116.27970
- **Phone**: (760)772-4150
- **Website**: https://www.dsusd.us
- **Wikidata QID**: Q6464730 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Quinta_High_School_(La_Quinta,_California)
- **Founded**: 1994

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,425
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 97
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 25.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 74.4%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Yellow
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: Yellow
  - math: Yellow
  - college_career: Blue
  - ela: Green
  - graduation: Blue

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 56.6% proficient — 532 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 96.7% (cohort of 580)
- **2021**: 97.0% (cohort of 577)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 35

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 14.6% (366 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.9% (23 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.7% (18 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 74.2%
- **Black/African American**: 4.0%
- **Asian**: 1.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 18.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 1.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 73.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.4% — 233 students
- **English Learners**: 6.2% — 154 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 157 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 20 students
- **Autism**: 17 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 14 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 7 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 6 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 4 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,875
- **Federal share**: $2,787
- **State + local share**: $16,088
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 2,488
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,921,080
- **Federal share**: 11.0%
- **State share**: 50.5%
- **Local share**: 38.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,499,064

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $89,696
- **Poverty rate**: 4.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 41.3%
- **Unemployment**: 6.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,436
- **Foreign-born residents**: 23.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 2.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 57.6 miles (MARCH AIR FORCE BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.06 miles (DOUG YORK PLAZA)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.98452 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Palm Desert High** — 4.7 mi away, 0.39% (this school: 0.92%)
- **NOVA Academy - Coachella** — 6.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.92%)
- **Coachella Valley High** — 6.7 mi away, 0.81% (this school: 0.92%)
- **La Familia Continuation High** — 9.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.92%)
- **Desert Mirage High** — 11.9 mi away, 0.35% (this school: 0.92%)

### ela proficiency
- **Gerald R. Ford Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 61.8% (this school: 61.3%)
- **Palm Desert High** — 4.7 mi away, 65.1% (this school: 61.3%)
- **George Washington Charter** — 5.4 mi away, 70.2% (this school: 61.3%)
- **Cathedral City High** — 11.6 mi away, 61.35% (this school: 61.3%)
- **Cielo Vista Charter** — 14.5 mi away, 66.85% (this school: 61.3%)

### graduation rate
- **Palm Desert High** — 4.7 mi away, 96.9% (this school: 96.7%)

### math proficiency
- **Harry S. Truman Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Gerald R. Ford Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Herbert Hoover Elementary** — 2.8 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **George Washington Charter** — 5.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Palm Desert Charter Middle** — 5.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)

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