About Desert Sands Charter District
Desert Sands Charter District is a public school system serving Los Angeles County, California, based in Lancaster. It serves 727 students across 1 schools spanning 8–12, and is classified as a suburb: large district. By enrollment it is the #783 largest of California’s 1976 school systems.
Size and structure
Desert Sands Charter District enrolls 727 students in 1 schools — an average of about 727 students per school. It serves grades 8–12 and ranks #783 of 1976 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Desert Sands Charter District, from the NCES Common Core of Data (727 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
Desert Sands Charter District employs about n/a full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of n/a — not reported for this district.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How California funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for Desert Sands Charter District are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
California reports school and district performance on the California School Dashboard, which rates indicators from red to blue across academic performance in English and math, chronic absenteeism, graduation rate, suspension rate, English-learner progress and college-and-career readiness. Look up Desert Sands Charter District on the California School Dashboard.
Accreditation status
In California, most schools that seek K–12 accreditation use ACS WASC (the Accrediting Commission for Schools, Western Association of Schools and Colleges) rather than Cognia. Search Desert Sands Charter District’s schools in the ACS WASC directory.
Desert Sands Charter District vs. California
See every California district side by side in the California directory.
Look up Desert Sands Charter District’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):