Desert Sands Unified School District

This School Plan for Student Achievement (SPSA) for Academia Desert Ridge, covering the 2025-2026 school year, aligns with the District's Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP). It outlines a comprehensive needs assessment using state and local data to identify resource inequities. The plan details goals, measurable outcomes, strategies, and actions to provide supplementary services for high-needs students, aiming to improve overall student achievement, academic success, and foster responsible and ethical behavior in a safe environment. It emphasizes ongoing monitoring and evaluation of the plan's effectiveness.

The Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) for Desert Sands Unified School District outlines strategies to improve student outcomes. The plan focuses on maximizing student achievement, growth, and success; preparing students for college and careers; and ensuring safe and respectful learning environments. It aims to increase student progress, decrease performance gaps, and report on prior year achievements.

This document presents the strategic highlights for Desert Sands Unified School District, focusing on three main goals: maximizing student growth, ensuring graduation and career readiness, and maintaining safe, respectful environments. The plan is driven by a mission to inspire and nurture every student and a vision to prepare them for college, career, and life, underpinned by values of relationships, respect, innovation, inclusion, teamwork, kindness, equity, excellence, and service.

The 2024-2025 Community Report for Desert Sands Unified School District highlights the district's commitment to inspiring and nurturing every student through various initiatives. Key areas of focus include ensuring early literacy, promoting college and career readiness, and providing safe and inviting environments to support attendance and mental health. The report also emphasizes the use of Generative AI in education, the importance of community involvement, and the district's mission to prepare students for college, career, and life.

The Local Control and Accountability Plan for Palm Desert Charter Middle School for the 2025-26 school year focuses on academic excellence, closing achievement gaps, and promoting a safe and positive school climate. Key strategies include faculty training, providing necessary materials and technology, academic intervention programs, and targeted interventions for EL, SED, and foster students. The plan also aims to enhance college and career readiness, student engagement, parent engagement, and social-emotional intervention programs.