# Colonel Mitchell Paige Middle

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061111011714`
- **School name**: Colonel Mitchell Paige Middle
- **Location**: La Quinta, CA 92253
- **Address**: 43-495 Palm Royale Dr.
- **District**: Desert Sands Unified (LEAID `0611110`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 33.73241, -116.30212
- **Phone**: (760)238-9710
- **Website**: https://www.dsusd.us

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 439
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 21
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 84.1%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 34.1% proficient — 356 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 39.4% (172 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 12.3% (73 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.0% (4 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 76.9%
- **Black/African American**: 2.7%
- **Asian**: 3.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 15.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 79.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 29.0% — 115 students
- **English Learners**: 19.6% — 78 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $22,908
- **Federal share**: $3,615
- **State + local share**: $19,293
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 397
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,921,080
- **Federal share**: 11.0%
- **State share**: 50.5%
- **Local share**: 38.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,499,064

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $105,059
- **Poverty rate**: 8.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 40.7%
- **Unemployment**: 2.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,118
- **Foreign-born residents**: 12.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 4.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 56.0 miles (MARCH AIR FORCE BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.20 miles (DOUG YORK PLAZA)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.98452 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Summit High (Continuation)** — 0.1 mi away, 7.19% (this school: 39.4%)
- **Gerald R. Ford Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 16.7% (this school: 39.4%)
- **James Monroe Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 23.6% (this school: 39.4%)
- **Amelia Earhart Elementary School of International Studies** — 1.7 mi away, 19.4% (this school: 39.4%)
- **John Glenn Middle School of International Studies** — 1.8 mi away, 20.1% (this school: 39.4%)

### ela proficiency
- **Gerald R. Ford Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 61.8% (this school: 36.05%)
- **James Monroe Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 36.9% (this school: 36.05%)
- **Amelia Earhart Elementary School of International Studies** — 1.7 mi away, 40.8% (this school: 36.05%)
- **John Glenn Middle School of International Studies** — 1.8 mi away, 47.45% (this school: 36.05%)
- **La Quinta High** — 1.8 mi away, 61.3% (this school: 36.05%)

### math proficiency
- **Gerald R. Ford Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Amelia Earhart Elementary School of International Studies** — 1.7 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **John Glenn Middle School of International Studies** — 1.8 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **La Quinta High** — 1.8 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Palm Desert High** — 3.2 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/colonel-mitchell-paige-middle-la-quinta
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/colonel-mitchell-paige-middle-la-quinta/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/colonel-mitchell-paige-middle-la-quinta/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/colonel-mitchell-paige-middle-la-quinta/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/colonel-mitchell-paige-middle-la-quinta/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/colonel-mitchell-paige-middle-la-quinta/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/colonel-mitchell-paige-middle-la-quinta/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/colonel-mitchell-paige-middle-la-quinta/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/colonel-mitchell-paige-middle-la-quinta/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/colonel-mitchell-paige-middle-la-quinta/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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