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Out of 28,610 students enrolled in Desert Sands Unified School District, 8.7 percent were in 12th-grade during the 2018-2019 school year, according to the California Department of Education.

According to numbers provided by the National Center for Education Services, California is expected to see a decrease of three percent in public elementary and secondary school enrollment from 2017-2029. The state expected to see the largest drop in enrollment is New Mexico with a projected 12 percent decrease, while Washington D.C. is projected to see a 14 percent increase over the same time period.

In a survey conducted by the Public Policy Institute of California, seven percent of respondents said large class sizes was the biggest issue facing California's K-12 schools. In the same survey, 50 percent of the respondents said they didn’t view the financial resources their local public school was getting as adequate.

Grade	Number of students	Total %
Kindergarten	2,295	8
First	1,935	6.8
Second	2,074	7.2
Third	1,919	6.7
Fourth	1,928	6.7
Fifth	2,063	7.2
Sixth	2,296	8
Seventh	2,301	8
Eighth	2,327	8.1
Ninth	2,384	8.3
10th	2,315	8.1
11th	2,280	8
12th	2,493	8.7