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Desert Sands Charter District
A public school district in Lancaster, California, with 1 operational school in 2024–25.
The district in 2024–25
- 727
- Students enrolled
- Suppressed by NCES
- Teachers, full-time equivalent
- Suppressed by NCES
- All staff, full-time equivalent
- $43,030
- Spending per pupil, fiscal year 2023
- Current expenditure over fall membership, both as the district reported them.
How this compares
- Students enrolled: 727 in 2024–25
- Ranks 9,063rd of 17,800 districts by enrollment, and 783rd of 1,976 in California. Larger than 49% of the 17,800 districts in the fifty states and DC that report an enrollment. The ranking →
- Current spending per pupil: $43,030 in fiscal year 2023
- More than 98% of the 17,189 districts with a spending figure. Current spending leaves out buildings and debt, and a district of a few pupils can spend far more per pupil than any large one.
Spending and revenue
Desert Sands Charter District spent $52,307 per pupil in fiscal year 2024, against $26,064 in fiscal year 2019
Current spending per pupil, each fiscal year: current expenditure over fall membership, both as the district reported them to NCES. In the dollars of each year, not adjusted for inflation. A year with no column is a year the survey has no figure for.
Source: NCES
About this chart
The figures
| Fiscal year | Spending per pupil | Current expenditure | Membership |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024 | $52,307 | $36.1 million | 690 |
| FY2023 | $43,030 | $31.9 million | 742 |
| FY2022 | $40,182 | $28.3 million | 705 |
| FY2021 | $26,499 | $21.2 million | 801 |
| FY2020 | $25,175 | $20.3 million | 807 |
| FY2019 | $26,064 | $21.7 million | 834 |
Revenue by source, fiscal year 2023
| Source | Revenue | Share of total |
|---|---|---|
| Federal | $271,000 | 0.8% |
| State | $29.8 million | 89.2% |
| Local | $3.3 million | 10.0% |
| Total | $33.3 million |
Federal, state and local revenue as the F-33 records them. Each share is of the survey’s total revenue, so a part withheld does not inflate the others.
The district’s schools
1 operational school, A to Z.
2 more columns on a wider screen
| School | Students |
|---|---|
| Desert Sands Charter | 727 |
The district’s entry
- Status
- Open
- Type
- Independent charter district
- Charter status
- LEA for federal programs
- Grades
- Grade 8 to Grade 12
- NCES district ID
- 0601784
Elsewhere
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Sources
- Common Core of Data (CCD), 2024–25 — National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education · U.S. Government work · retrieved September 30, 2026
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), 2024–25.
- School District Finance Survey (F-33), fiscal years 2019 to 2024
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "School District Finance Survey (F-33)," fiscal years 2019 to 2024.
Compiled automatically from Common Core of Data (CCD), 2024–25 and School District Finance Survey (F-33), fiscal years 2019 to 2024 by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built
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