Desert Sands Unified School District

Desert Sands Unified School District
Location
47950 Dune Palms Rd,
La Quinta, CA 92253

Information
Type Public
Superintendent Dr. Sharon McGehee
Information (760) 777-4200
Website

The Desert Sands Unified School District is a public school district located in La Quinta, California. The district was founded in 1964 after the state of California department of education consolidated all of Indio public schools at the time. The DSUSD serves

The DSUSD administration office based in a former elementary school (1926-1955), was moved from Indio to La Quinta in 1996 and the historic building was torn down to make way for a county courthouse parking lot.

Contents

Schools

The DSUSD has 22 elementary schools, 9 middle schools, 6 high schools and one continuation high school.

Elementary

The Van Buren campus has the Esperanza Teen Youth Mother Center.

Middle

High

Other

Amistad High School (grades 6-12) is a continuation high school facility, on the site of former Woodrow Wilson Middle School, Indio - opened in 1964/65, closed in 2009. [1]

History

In the 1930s and 40s, Indio Public Schools consisted of Washington, Roosevelt, Jackson (the first facility replaced by a newer one), Lincoln and Hoover schools, with the Jefferson school the sole Junior High level facility.

DSUSD (began as the Indio Public School District) closed down 6 schools. The original sites for George Washington and Abraham Lincoln schools were in Indio. The Lincoln site originally on the block of Oasis St. from Bliss to Requa Avenues closed in the 1940s, then became the Indio Community school on the corner of Bliss Ave. and Park St. in the 1960s is now Our Lady of Perpeutal Help Catholic school since the 1990s, but the adjacent race-segregated Indio Colored School later renamed William McKinley School on the corner of Monroe St. and Las Palmas Dr./John Nobles Ave. was closed in the 1960s when Indio Public Schools had to integrate their schools for Hispanic (WWII-era) and later Black/African-American students. Two other colored schools at the time: the Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge schools, on the corner of Jackson St. and Kenner Avenue had to merge with Jackson and Hoover Elementary Schools.

John Adams school of La Quinta relocated to a new facility in 1998/99 after their previous spot was taken over by Harry Truman school.

Woodrow Wilson Middle School closed in 2009, the campus will become the new Amistad Continuation High School in 2011.

La Quinta High School followed by Palm Desert High School and the PSUSD's Cathedral City High Schools, had the highest 3 test scores of all local high schools, among the top 10 in Riverside County and were above both California and US averages.

Head Staff

Rest of staff

External links

Inland Empire portal
California portal