Summary:
The Desert Sands Charter District contains only one high school, Desert Sands Charter, which serves students in grades 9-12. The school faces significant challenges, with low graduation rates, high dropout rates, chronic absenteeism, and poor academic performance on standardized tests compared to state averages.
Desert Sands Charter has a 4-year graduation rate of just 17.8%, which is significantly lower than the state average. The school also has a high dropout rate of 23.4%, more than double the state average. Additionally, the school struggles with chronic absenteeism, with 51.2% of students chronically absent, much higher than the state average. On standardized tests, only 31.62% of 11th-grade students were proficient or better in English Language Arts/Literacy, compared to the state average of 55.73%, and just 3.68% were proficient in Mathematics, compared to the state average of 27.9%.
The data suggests that Desert Sands Charter District as a whole faces significant challenges, with the district itself ranked 1226 out of 1568 in California and rated 1 star out of 5. Addressing the issues at Desert Sands Charter will require a comprehensive, data-driven approach to support the school and its students, including strategies to improve attendance, provide academic support, and engage students more effectively.
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