Desert Center Unified
Key statistics
Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.
Students
By grade
- Kindergarten 8
- Grade 1 4
- Grade 3 2
- Grade 4 3
- Grade 5 2
- Grade 6 2
- Grade 7 4
- Grade 8 4
By race/ethnicity
- White 45%
- Hispanic/Latino 45%
- Two or more races 7%
- Asian 3%
Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.
Free and reduced-price lunch
- Free lunch 69%
- Reduced-price lunch 0%
Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.
Spending and revenue
Spending per student
- Instruction $33,840
- Support services $67,520
- Other (food service, etc.) $2,920
Where the money comes from
- Local 79%
- State 11%
- Federal 10%
Total revenue $2.7 milliontotal spending $2.9 million
Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year.
District details
Grades served
KG to 08
Locale (NCES)
Rural: Remote
Total staff (FTE)
14
District office
1434 Kaiser Rd., Desert Center CA 92239
Phone
County
Riverside County
Official website
NCES District ID
611100
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