Editing La Quinta, California (section)

==Education==
The [[Desert Sands Unified School District]] serves a majority of La Quinta, while the [[Coachella Valley Unified School District]] serves a segment in the eastern portion of the city.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://statisticalatlas.com/place/California/La-Quinta/Overview | title=The Demographic Statistical Atlas of the United States - Statistical Atlas }}</ref>

Public schools directly within the city limits include:
*Harry S. Truman Elementary School
*Benjamin Franklin Elementary School<ref>California Distinguished School {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070928140644/http://www.ibworldschool.us/ Benjamin Franklin Elementary School of International Studies]}}</ref>
*La Quinta Middle School
*Colonel Mitchell Paige Middle School
*[[La Quinta High School (La Quinta, California)|La Quinta High School]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.city-data.com/city/La-Quinta-California.html |title=La Quinta High School |publisher=City-data.com |access-date=December 23, 2010}}</ref> an IB World School

Students in north La Quinta are also zoned to the following Desert Sands Unified schools which are near, or directly across in the case of Earhart and Glenn, from the city borders:

*Amelia Earhart Elementary School, Indio
*Gerald R. Ford Elementary School, Indian Wells
*John Glenn Middle School of International Studies, Indio

===Specialized and Alternative schools===
*John Adams Early Childhood Education Center.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.desertsun.com/story/news/education/2015/11/18/desert-sands-usd-could-close-adams-elementary/75976086/|title=DSUSD moves forward with Adams Elementary closing|date= November 18, 2015|first=Kristen |last=Hwang |newspaper=[[The Desert Sun]]|access-date=March 5, 2016}}</ref>
*Summit High School
*Horizon School of Independent Studies (middle and high school grade levels)