Palm Springs Unified School District
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Palm Springs Unified School District | |
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Address | |
150 District Center Drive
Public | |
Grades | K–12[1] |
Established | 1958 |
Superintendent | Mike Swize |
Asst. superintendent(s) | Simone Kovats |
NCES District ID | 0629550 [1] |
Students and staff | |
Students | 21,705 (2020–2021)[1] |
Teachers | 961.16 (FTE)[1] |
Staff | 1,125.81 (FTE)[1] |
Student–teacher ratio | 22.58:1[1] |
Other information | |
Website | www |
The Palm Springs Unified School District, or PSUSD, is one of three
Summary
PSUSD employs more than 2000 administrators, certificated staff and classified staff. More than 23,000 students are enrolled in sixteen
The district covers the following communities:
- Cathedral City
- Desert Hot Springs
- Palm Desert (Parts of the city north of Frank Sinatra Dr.)
- Palm Springs
- Rancho Mirage
- Thousand Palms
Other unincorporated areas within the western Coachella Valley region are covered as well.
Schools
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Elementary
Cathedral City
- Agua Caliente Elementary School, opened in 1930's, current site since 1960, renovated.
- Cathedral City Elementary School (opened 1950s, moved to new site in 2005).
- Landau Elementary School – opened in 1991.
- Rio Vista Elementary School – opened in 2006.
- Sunny Sands Elementary School – opened in 1989.
Desert Hot Springs
- Bella Vista Elementary School – opened in 2014.[2]
- Bubbling Wells Elementary School – opened in 1990.
- Cabot Yerxa Elementary School – opened in 2009.
- Julius Corsini Elementary School – opened in 1983 (formerly Hacienda Elementary School 1950s–80, replaced older site).
- Two Bunch Palms Elementary School – opened in 1997.
Palm Springs
- Cahuilla Elementary School – oldest grade school in existence, opened in 1920's, renovated.
- second Cahuilla in Finchy school campus (extended Advanced Studies).
- Cielo Vista Charter School – opened in 1980.
- Katherine Finchy School (formerly 'North End school") was renamed in 1951, after the long time educator. A new facility was built in 1998.
- Vista Del Monte Elementary School – opened in 1983, replaced older site since the 1920s.
Rancho Mirage
- Rancho Mirage Elementary School – city's oldest public school, opened in the 1940s, current site since 1967.
Thousand Palms
- Della S. Lindley Elementary School – opened in 1987.
Middle
Cathedral City
- James Workman Middle School – opened in 1995.
- Nellie Coffman Middle School – facility opened in 1976/77 – renovated, formerly in Palm Springs (1930s to 1976).
Desert Hot Springs
- Desert Springs Middle School – opened in 1989.
- Painted Hills Middle School – opened Fall 2011[3]
Palm Springs
- Raymond Cree Middle School – opened in the 1960s, replaced site built in 1930s.
- Cielo Vista Charter School -
opened in the 1980s.
High
Cathedral City
- Cathedral City High School – opened in 1991/92, California Distinguished School.
Had the second highest test scores of all Coachella Valley high schools in the 2000s and 2010–11.
Desert Hot Springs
- Desert Hot Springs High School – opened in 1998, ten miles from Palm Springs.
Palm Springs
- Palm Springs High School – opened in 1938, oldest PSUSD school in existence.
Originally K–12 grade school in the 1920s and had the College of the Desert campus from 1958 to 1964.
Rancho Mirage
- Rancho Mirage High School in Rancho Mirage, opened in 2013.
Alternative Education
Cathedral City
- Mt. San Jacinto High School – facility opened in 1986 replaced El Camino Continuation High School in Palm Springs.
Desert Hot Springs
- Edward Wenzlaff Education Center (relocated from Desert Hot Springs Alternative Center 2015 and formerly Las Brisas Continuation) opened in 1992. (formerly Desert Hot Springs K-8 School 1940s–62, current site opened in 1963, renamed in 1996, was elementary school until 2014). [citation needed]
Palm Springs
- Palm Springs Adult School, adjacent to Katherine Finchy school
- Desert Learning Academy (K–8, plus high school, location formerly Ramon Alternative Center)
- Palm Springs Independent Studies (Elem/Jr High/Sr High) School
- Palm Springs Unified Mental Health Services (in former PSUSD Office)
- Coyote Run Preschool/ Canyon Run Kindergarten in Palm Springs' Gateway section.[4]
- Proposed Desert Highland Education center[citation needed]
Proposed (in Palm Desert/ Thousand Palms area)
- Desert Cities – Palme Park School Complex (K–grade 8). [citation needed]
Historic schools
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The PSUSD used to have 5 other public schools in Palm Springs and one other in Cathedral City.
Until the 1950s, the PSUSD had separate school campuses for
Local celebrities and billionaires like
The (later private) Palm Valley School in the 1920s on the city limits of Cathedral City, closed and moved to current site in the 1960s.
The Smoke Tree school which faced the Walt Disney ranch and the Bob Hope and Elvis Presley residences closed in the 1960s.
The Frances Stevens school now the Palm Springs Theatre.
The Harry Oliver school became the Palm Springs Community School run by Riverside County Department of Education.
The Ramon School now the St. Theresa's Catholic school.
The relocated El Camino Continuation High School, on Demuth Park (the park and school's original site was on west Ramon and south Palm Canyon Dr.) in the late 1970s, on the PSHS site in the early 1980s, then became the Esperanza High School for teenage mothers in 1986, then closed in the early 1990s.
And the Mount San Jacinto School, later a special-day studies school on Section 14, the land parcel on the Agua Caliente Indian reservation, also where El Camino was.
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Search for Public School Districts – District Detail for Palm Springs Unified". National Center for Education Statistics. Institute of Education Sciences. Retrieved 2022-03-05.
- ^ "Bella Vista Elementary School | PSUSD". Archived from the original on 2014-06-25. Retrieved 2014-04-26.
- ^ "Palm Springs Unified School District : Painted Hills Middle School". Archived from the original on July 17, 2011. Retrieved February 27, 2010.
- ^ "Psusd-Coyote Run".
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