# Painted Hills Middle

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/painted-hills-middle-desert-hot-springs/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/painted-hills-middle-desert-hot-springs

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062955012795`
- **School name**: Painted Hills Middle
- **Location**: Desert Hot Springs, CA 92240
- **Address**: 9250 Sonora Dr.
- **District**: Palm Springs Unified (LEAID `0629550`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 33.98120, -116.51793
- **Phone**: (760)251-1551
- **Website**: https://www.psusd.us

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 722
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 33
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 97.2%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Orange
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: Orange
  - math: Orange
  - ela: Orange
  - chronic_absent: Red

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 32.6% proficient — 662 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 46.6% (373 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 35.7% (277 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.2% (9 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 7.0% (52 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 96.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.0% — 104 students
- **English Learners**: 28.6% — 213 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $21,314
- **Federal share**: $1,882
- **State + local share**: $19,432
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 744
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $22,794,565
- **Federal share**: 9.5%
- **State share**: 54.5%
- **Local share**: 36.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,478,504

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $73,629
- **Poverty rate**: 10.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 19.5%
- **Unemployment**: 7.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,725
- **Foreign-born residents**: 19.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 19.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 42.0 miles (NORTON AIR FORCE BASE LNDFLL 2)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 24.13 miles (DOUG YORK PLAZA)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: MISSION SPRINGS WD
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2021-12-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.80417 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 9.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Desert Hot Springs High** — 1.1 mi away, 4.6% (this school: 46.6%)
- **Two Bunch Palms Elementary** — 2.5 mi away, 38.7% (this school: 46.6%)
- **Desert Springs Middle** — 2.7 mi away, 42.6% (this school: 46.6%)
- **Bubbling Wells Elementary** — 3.5 mi away, 37.6% (this school: 46.6%)
- **Morongo Valley Elementary** — 6.3 mi away, 17.4% (this school: 46.6%)

### ela proficiency
- **Bella Vista Elementary** — 0.2 mi away, 36.8% (this school: 35.3%)
- **Desert Hot Springs High** — 1.1 mi away, 51.2% (this school: 35.3%)
- **Two Bunch Palms Elementary** — 2.5 mi away, 35.65% (this school: 35.3%)
- **Morongo Valley Elementary** — 6.3 mi away, 41.05% (this school: 35.3%)
- **Vista del Monte Elementary** — 8.8 mi away, 36.2% (this school: 35.3%)

### math proficiency
- **Vista del Monte Elementary** — 8.8 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Katherine Finchy Elementary** — 10.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Sunny Sands Elementary** — 11.5 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Cielo Vista Charter** — 11.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Rancho Mirage High** — 12.0 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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