Palmdale Discovery CenterPublicPalmdale, CAGrades TK-8246 students
Palmdale Discovery Center: A special education center. No Scope Score publishes here.
A Scope Score ranks schools a family can choose between. At Palmdale Discovery Center, students are placed here by an IEP team, not by address and not by lottery — so a comparative rank would measure something a family's choice never entered. We show what California reports and hold the rank.
special education center
no score · no band · no rank — enrollment assigned, not chosen
246 students · placed by an IEP team
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Palmdale Discovery Center is a special education center in Palmdale, California. SchoolScope publishes no Scope Score, performance band, archetype or ranking for schools where enrollment is assigned rather than chosen.
SchoolScope holds no scored record for Palmdale Discovery Center this year — no Scope Score, band or rank — so there is no picture to draw beyond the figures on this page.
If a placement here is part of a child's IEP, this page is background, not the decision — the IEP team meeting is where fit actually gets decided.
- Ask how this placement was determined, and what the annual IEP review looks at.
- Ask what related services — speech, occupational therapy, counseling — are provided on site.
- Ask how and when a return to a less-restrictive setting gets reconsidered.
About 11 students for every teacher here.
Context — never part of the Scope Score
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Pay is set by the district, not the school.
It spends $43,339 per student, more than the California average.
Context — never part of the Scope Score
$2,476 per student arrives as federal Title funding — a measure of concentrated need, not school quality.
The district's current expense of education per student, from CDE's annual SACS filing — the freshest district spending figure the state publishes.
District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.
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Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →
Three in four of students here qualify for free or reduced lunch, versus three in five statewide.
Context — never part of the Scope Score
At 246 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California elementary school (≈480).
Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.
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