NCES CCD 2024-25 19 schools CA

Best-Resourced Schools in Indio, CA

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19 public K-12 schools in Indio from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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19
Schools
13,308
Students
22.9/100
Avg Resource Index
22.6:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Indio has more public-school enrollment than 87% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Indio's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

11 of Indio's 19 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 4 middle and 4 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

High measured need meets a thin staffing ratio

Indio's reporting schools show 69.5% free-lunch eligibility across measured enrollment, alongside an average 22.6:1 student-teacher ratio. These are separate constraints: one describes the economic context of enrolled students and the other compares student and teacher headcounts. The 48-point gap between Amistad High (Continuation) and Andrew Jackson Elementary is therefore more useful than the city mean alone. A school with a similar ratio may still report different counselor access, attendance, or gifted-program availability, so open the campus records before drawing conclusions about student support.

City enrollment
Top 13%
School count
Top 16%
Resource Index average
2nd percentile
Teacher staffing
6th percentile

Indio school enrollment varies 28× across entities

Indio school enrollment ranges from 69 students (lowest) to 1,962 students (highest), a spread of 1,893 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data NCES Common Core of Data

Indio reports 69.5% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data NCES Common Core of Data

Indio student-teacher ratio is 22.6:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Amistad High (Continuation) 55
2. Desert Sands a.T.L.a.S. 31
3. Thomas Jefferson Middle 29
4. Indio High 28
5. Carrillo Ranch Elementary 28
6. Shadow Hills High 26
7. John Glenn Middle School of International Studies 26
8. Amelia Earhart Elementary School of International Studies 22
9. Richard R. Oliphant Elementary 22
10. Martin Van Buren Elementary 22
11. Theodore Roosevelt Elementary 22
12. Indio Middle 21
13. John F. Kennedy Elementary 21
14. Herbert Hoover Elementary 19
15. Desert Ridge Academy 18
16. Mountain Vista Elementary 16
17. Dr. Reynaldo J. Carreon Jr. Academy 12
18. Lyndon B. Johnson Elementary 10
19. Andrew Jackson Elementary 7

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Indio

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Amelia Earhart Elementary School of International Studies 51.0/100
  2. 2 Desert Sands a.T.L.a.S. 49.0/100
  3. 3 John Glenn Middle School of International Studies 40.3/100
  4. 4 Desert Ridge Academy 27.2/100
  5. 5 Richard R. Oliphant Elementary 27.1/100

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Which Indio school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Amistad High (Continuation) has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Indio schools in this federal-data comparison at 55/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Indio, CA? ▼

Indio has 19 public schools with a total enrollment of 13,308 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 22.6:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.