| Compton Unified School District | |
|---|---|
| Address | |
501 S. Santa Fe Avenue
, California, 90221United States | |
| Coordinates | 33°53′29″N 118°13′00″W / 33.89139°N 118.21667°W |
| District information | |
| Grades | K through 12 |
| Superintendent | Darin Brawley |
| NCES District ID | 0609620[1] |
| Students and staff | |
| Students | 20,400 (2019-2020)[1] |
| Other information | |
| Website | compton.k12.ca.us/ |
Compton Unified School District is a school district headquartered in Compton, California, United States.
The district serves almost all of Compton, all of East Rancho Dominguez, most of Willowbrook CDP, portions of Carson, Lynwood, West Rancho Dominguez CDP, and a small sliver of Paramount.[2]
History[edit]
In 1993 the State of California offered to loan the school district $20 million in exchange for temporary control of the school district; the rationale for wanting to take control included both financial problems and poor academic performance, making Compton USD the only California school district to ever have a takeover for both reasons. The state had complete control over the school district. Test scores had a modest increase as a result. In 1997 Jeff Leeds of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the physical conditions of the campuses had deteriorated since the takeover. Delaine Eastin, the California State Superintendent of Public Instruction, decided not to close the school district despite receiving requests to do so.[3] By 1997 Compton USD began to repay the loan.[3]
Schools[edit]
Continuation schools[edit]
- Cesar Chavez Continuation High School (Unincorporated area)
Secondary schools[edit]
High schools[edit]
Zoned
- Centennial High School (Compton)
- Compton High School (Compton)
- Manuel Dominguez High School (Compton)
- Compton Early College High School (Compton)
Alternative
- Compton Community Day High School (Unincorporated area)
Middle schools[edit]
Zoned
- Ralph J. Bunche Middle School (Unincorporated area)
- Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. Middle School (Compton)[4]
- Enterprise Middle School (Compton)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Middle School (Compton)[5]
- Frank L. Walton Middle School (Compton)
- Franklin S. Whaley Middle School (Unincorporated area)
- Willowbrook Middle School (Compton)
Alternative
- Compton Community Day Middle School (Unincorporated area)
Primary schools[edit]
Zoned, K-5
- Ralph Bunche Elementary School (Carson)
- Charles W. Bursch Elementary School (Compton)
- George Washington Carver Elementary School (Unincorporated area)
- William Jefferson Clinton Elementary School (Paramount)
- Clarence A. Dickison Elementary School (Compton)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Elementary School (Compton)
- Stephen C. Foster Elementary School (Compton)
- Jefferson Elementary School (Unincorporated area)
- Colin P. Kelly Elementary School (Compton)
- Robert F. Kennedy Elementary School (Compton)
- Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School (Unincorporated area)
- Laurel Street Elementary School (Compton)
- Henry Longfellow Elementary School (Compton)
- Augusta A. Mayo Elementary School (Compton)
- McKinley Elementary School (Unincorporated area)
- Ronald E. McNair Elementary School (Compton)
- Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School (Compton)
- General Rosecrans Elementary School (Compton)
- Ardella B. Tibby Elementary School (Compton)
- George Washington Elementary School (Unincorporated area)
Zoned, 3-5
- Augusta A. Mayo Elementary School (Compton)
See also[edit]
- List of school districts in Los Angeles County, California
- Ted Kimbrough, former superintendent
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Search for Public School Districts – District Detail for Compton Unified". National Center for Education Statistics. Institute of Education Sciences. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
- ^ "2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Los Angeles County, CA" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. p. 10 (PDF p. 11/19). Retrieved 2023-11-19. - detail of Willowbrook CDP
- ^ a b Leeds, Jeff (1997-01-26). "State Fails to Stop Compton Schools' Slide Into Decay". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
- ^ "School Web Template". Archived from the original on 2008-08-03. Retrieved 2008-04-06.
- ^ "School Web Template". Archived from the original on 2008-01-15. Retrieved 2008-04-06.