Editing Palm Desert, California (section)

==Education==
[[Image:CSUSB PalmDesertCampus.jpg|thumb|CSUSB Palm Desert Campus]]

Palm Desert is the site for the main campus of [[College of the Desert]], a community college, which originally opened in 1962. The [[University of California, Riverside]] also has an extension learning center in the city.

[[California State University, San Bernardino]] first opened its Palm Desert campus in 1986, followed by its own stand-alone, 169 acre campus located on Cook Street in 2002. The Palm Desert Campus offers over 40 undergraduate, graduate, doctorate, and credential programs on site and online as the only full-service public school of higher education in the Coachella Valley.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.csusb.edu/pdc/about-pdc/history|title=History &#124; Palm Desert Campus &#124; CSUSB|website=www.csusb.edu|accessdate=March 3, 2025}}</ref>

The primary high school is [[Palm Desert High School]] (with 2200 students) which is part of the [[Desert Sands Unified School District]]. The main Middle School (with 1100 students) is [[Palm Desert Middle School]], a [[charter school]]. The four elementary schools in the city are George Washington Charter, Abraham Lincoln, James Carter and Ronald Reagan. The northernmost part of Palm Desert is served by the [[Palm Springs Unified School District]], so the students can attend [[Rancho Mirage High School]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ranchomiragehighschool.org/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130105015840/http://www.ranchomiragehighschool.org/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=January 5, 2013|title=Rancho Mirage High School|website=Rancho Mirage High School}}</ref> in Rancho Mirage, or Nellie Coffman Middle School and [[Cathedral City High School]] in [[Cathedral City, California]]. Some students in the eastside are zoned to [[La Quinta High School (La Quinta, California)|La Quinta High School]] and [[Colonel Mitchell Paige Middle School]].

The Riverside County Department of Education operates San Cayetano Community School, a grade 1 to 12 educational facility. There are eight private schools in the immediate area: Desert Adventist Academy, Palm Desert Presbyterian School, Sacred Heart Catholic Academy, The Palm Valley School, the Learning Tree Academy, [[Xavier College Preparatory High School (California)|Xavier College Preparatory High School]] (Catholic-Jesuit), the Hope Academy,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ww1.hopeacademycharter.org/?subid1=d0ad75ec-aa1b-11e9-9455-4f81ea1a3e97|title=hopeacademycharter.org|website=1.hopeacademycharter.org}}</ref> and the Desert Torah Academy, a Jewish community school and its social recreational Jewish Community Center. It also has meetings by the Jewish Federation of the Desert based in [[Palm Springs, California|Palm Springs]],<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.jfedps.com/ | title=Home|website=Jfedps.com}}</ref> serving an estimated 35,000 Jewish people in the Coachella Valley.