Desert Sands Unified School District
| Desert Sands Unified School District | |
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| Location | |
| 47950 Dune Palms Rd, La Quinta, CA 92253 |
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| Information | |
| Type | Public |
| Superintendent | Gary Ruthford |
| Information | (760) 777-4200 |
| Website | Official website |
The Desert Sands Unified School District (DSUSD) is a public school district with main offices located in La Quinta, California. The district was founded in 1964 after the California department of education consolidated all of Indio public schools at the time. DSUSD serves the following communities:
The DSUSD administration office based in a former elementary school (1926-1955), was moved from Indio to La Quinta in 1996.
DSUSD has 21 elementary schools, 8 middle schools, 4 high schools, 2 continuation high schools and one independent studies school.
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]
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 Perpetual 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. (then moved to where the Indio Community School is) 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.
Palm Desert High School followed by La Quinta High School and the PSUSD's Cathedral City High School, 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.
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