Thomas Jefferson Middle School (Indio)
| Desert Sands Unified School District | |
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| Location | |
| 47950 Dune Palms Rd, La Quinta, CA 92253 |
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| Coordinates | 33°42′08″N 116°16′35″W / 33.70222°N 116.27639°WCoordinates: 33°42′08″N 116°16′35″W / 33.70222°N 116.27639°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Public |
| Superintendent | Scott Bailey (as of 2017) |
| 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 Indio public schools. As of 2017, DSUSD serves 28,958 students in Indio, La Quinta, Palm Desert, Indian Wells, Bermuda Dunes, and parts of Rancho Mirage and Coachella.
DSUSD has nineteen elementary schools, seven middle schools, 4 high schools, 2 continuation high schools, and one alternative education school, and a preschool.
A new elementary school is under construction and expected to open for the 2018–2019 school year. It will be located in north Indio, and will be a feeder to Desert Ridge Academy and Shadow Hills High School.
In the 1930s and 1940s, Indio Public Schools consisted of Washington, Roosevelt, Jackson, Lincoln and Hoover schools, with the Jefferson school the sole junior high-level facility. In 1966, voters approved the consolidation of the Indio Elementary School District and the Coachella Valley Joint Union High School District, with some smaller elementary districts, into one, 760 square mile, district called Desert Sands Unified School District. The district initially served about 6,600 students.
In 2010, using funds provided by the Magnet Schools Assistance Program, two elementary schools were converted to magnet schools: the Carrillo Ranch Elementary Visual and Performing Arts Magnet School and the John F. Kennedy Elementary Math and Science Magnet School.
In 2012, a teacher at Gerald Ford Elementary School, Robert Keith Bryan, was arrested for molesting eight girls from 1985–2012. The charges included 12 felony counts of committing a lewd act with a child and five misdemeanor counts of molesting a child. In 2016, Bryan pled guilty to four of the twelve felony counts and four of the five misdemeanor counts; he was sentenced to nine years in state prison. Two families filed suit against the teacher, the Desert Sands Unified School District, and the school principal claiming that the school and the district knew that Bryan had previously been accused of inappropriate behavior with a student, and had even been suspended without pay for ten days. One of the families settled with the district in 2016 for $650,000.
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