# Desert Mirage High

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/desert-mirage-high-thermal

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060907011175`
- **School name**: Desert Mirage High
- **Location**: Thermal, CA 92274
- **Address**: 86150 Avenue 66
- **District**: Coachella Valley Unified (LEAID `0609070`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 33.57186, -116.16133
- **Phone**: (760)397-2255
- **Website**: https://www.cvusd.us
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5263973 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Mirage_High_School
- **Founded**: 2003

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,875
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 84
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 97.3%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Orange
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: Orange
  - math: Red
  - college_career: Orange
  - ela: Red
  - graduation: Orange

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 42.9% proficient — 432 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 88.3% (cohort of 489)
- **2021**: 74.0% (cohort of 504)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 29.6% (626 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.3% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.1% (21 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 98.4%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 0.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 97.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.1% — 278 students
- **English Learners**: 25.0% — 493 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $28,784
- **Federal share**: $1,262
- **State + local share**: $27,522
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,974
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $22,272,782
- **Federal share**: 15.5%
- **State share**: 62.1%
- **Local share**: 22.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,747,729

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $37,788
- **Poverty rate**: 32.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 0.6%
- **Unemployment**: 15.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $769
- **Foreign-born residents**: 52.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 23.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 58.0 miles (STOKER CHEMICAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.84 miles (IBANEZ PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LADERA GOLF CLUB
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.4766 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 10.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **La Familia Continuation High** — 4.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.35%)
- **NOVA Academy - Coachella** — 6.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.35%)

### ela proficiency
- **Westside Elementary** — 6.2 mi away, 37.2% (this school: 31.45%)
- **NOVA Academy - Coachella** — 6.8 mi away, 44.75% (this school: 31.45%)
- **Peter Pendleton Elementary** — 6.9 mi away, 32% (this school: 31.45%)
- **Valle del Sol Elementary** — 7.1 mi away, 31.6% (this school: 31.45%)
- **Imagine Schools Riverside County** — 7.9 mi away, 38.05% (this school: 31.45%)

### graduation rate
- **Coachella Valley High** — 5.4 mi away, 90.5% (this school: 88.3%)
- **NOVA Academy - Coachella** — 6.8 mi away, 95.7% (this school: 88.3%)
- **Indio High** — 10.8 mi away, 91.2% (this school: 88.3%)
- **La Quinta High** — 11.9 mi away, 96.7% (this school: 88.3%)
- **Summit High (Continuation)** — 13.7 mi away, 88.9% (this school: 88.3%)

### math proficiency
- **Oasis Elementary** — 4.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Peter Pendleton Elementary** — 6.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Imagine Schools Riverside County** — 7.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Martin Van Buren Elementary** — 9.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Harry S. Truman Elementary** — 10.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/desert-mirage-high-thermal
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/desert-mirage-high-thermal/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/desert-mirage-high-thermal/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/desert-mirage-high-thermal/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/desert-mirage-high-thermal/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/desert-mirage-high-thermal/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/desert-mirage-high-thermal/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/desert-mirage-high-thermal/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/desert-mirage-high-thermal/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/desert-mirage-high-thermal/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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