Best High Schools in Zip Code 92240

High schools in zip code 92240 consist of one school, Desert Hot Springs High, serving grades 9–12 in the Palm Springs Unified area. It enrolls 1,687 students, and its 2025–2026 proficiency results are below California’s in all three reported subjects, with the largest shortfall in math.

Because it is the only school listed, Desert Hot Springs High is both the area’s highest- and lowest-ranked school by default; that is not a meaningful comparison among local schools. Its relative strength is ELA: 39% of students were proficient, compared with 37% in Palm Springs Unified and 49% statewide, leaving the school 11 percentage points below California. Math was its weakest subject: 12% proficient, 10 points below the district and 26 below the state. Science proficiency was 15%, 21 points below the state. Other outcomes are mixed: graduation was 91%, 4 points above the state, while chronic absenteeism was 54%, 36 points above the state and 23 above the district.

Results over time show that ELA fell from 47% in 2024–2025 to 39% in 2025–2026, a drop of 8 points, while the state’s result edged up to 49%; the school’s gap to the state widened by 8 points. Math was essentially flat at 12%, and science rose from 12% to 15%, but neither closed its state gap. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile ranking also declined, from the 52nd percentile in 2023–2024 to the 33rd and then the 26th in 2025–2026. Context figures include a 20.5 student–teacher ratio in 2024–2025 and 96% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025. With just one school listed, the data cannot show how it compares with other high schools in the zip code.