Summary:
Thousand Palms, California, is served by one public elementary school, Della S. Lindley Elementary, which educates about 550 students in grades K-5 within the Palm Springs Unified School District.
Della S. Lindley Elementary serves a community with high economic need, with over 92% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Academically, the school's performance is below state averages but generally similar to others in the Palm Springs Unified School District, which is ranked in the bottom quarter of California districts. The school shows a relative strength in science, where it outperforms the district average, and its third graders demonstrate the highest proficiency rates in English and math.
Notable challenges include lower performance in upper grades, particularly in fifth-grade math and fourth-grade English. The school spends more per student than the California average, yet outcomes have remained consistently in the lower percentiles for three years. Chronic absenteeism, while lower than the district rate, is higher than the state average. For parents, this indicates a school facing significant, systemic challenges common to high-poverty areas, with some pockets of relative strength but overall academic results that lag behind most schools in the state.
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