Palm Springs Unified School District
| Palm Springs Unified School District |
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980 East Tahquitz Canyon Way, Palm Springs, CA 92262 Palm Springs, California |
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| District information | |
| Type | Public |
| Grades | TK–12 |
| Established | 1958 |
| Superintendent | Sandra Lyon |
| Students and staff | |
| Students | 23,943 |
| Other information | |
| Website | www |
The Palm Springs Unified School District, or PSUSD, is one of three public education governing bodies in the Coachella Valley desert region of Southern California. PSUSD governs the western half of the valley; the Coachella Valley Unified School District and Desert Sands Unified School District oversee communities in the eastern half. Administrative offices are located in Palm Springs. The PSUSD was established in 1958 from the Palm Springs Public Schools, later included Palm Springs High School in the 1960s.
PSUSD employs more than 2000 administrators, certificated staff and classified staff. More than 23,000 students are enrolled in sixteen elementary schools, four middle schools, four high schools and a continuation high school. Preschools, Head Start programs and adult education are covered as well.
The district covers the following communities:
Unincorporated areas within the region are covered as well.
Had the second highest test scores of all Coachella Valley high schools in the 2000s and 2010–11.
Originally K–12 grade school in the 1920s and had the College of the Desert campus from 1958 to 1964.
The PSUSD used to have 5 other public schools in Palm Springs and one other in Cathedral City.
Until the 1950s, the PSUSD had separate school campuses for African-American, Latino, Asian-American and American Indian students when school segregation was then legal, then came the mandated policy of racial integration affected local schools. They were the El Camino, Harry Oliver, Mount San Jacinto and Palm Valley schools in the Section 14 neighborhood, inside the Agua Caliente Indian Reservation.
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