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Compton Unified


At a glance
352ndof 968 California districts▲ 282
Better than 63% of California districts
501 South Santa Fe Ave.
Compton, CA 90221-3814
·(310) 639-4321·All California district rankings →
Statewide performance 2017–2026
2026: better than 63.7% of districts
37
Schools
16,232
Students
2
5-star schools
Top rankedFoster Elementary390th of 5,804 California elementary schools
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Biggest riser
Rosecrans Elementary up 1,646 spots statewide this year
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Smallest classes
Cesar Chavez Continuation High 17.3 students per teacher
SchoolDigger ratings
4★
3★
2★
6 schools without a SchoolDigger rating (too few tested students)
Summary:

The 34 schools in Compton Unified include 21 elementary, five middle, six high, and two alternative schools. In 2025–26, the unweighted school averages were 51% in ELA and 45% in math, above state averages of 49% and 38%; science averaged 30%, below the state’s 36%. But results varied widely: the school-to-school ranges were 83 percentage points in ELA, 74 in math, and 72 in science. These are school averages across different grade spans, not student-weighted rates. The most important finding is that a districtwide average can hide very different results at individual schools.

Early College Middle led ELA with 90%, 10 points above the next-highest school, Foster Elementary at 76%. Foster led math at 77%, 13 points ahead of Compton STEP, and science at 73%, 13 points above Ronald E. McNair Elementary. At the low end, Cesar Chavez Continuation High reported 7% ELA, 3% math, and 1% science—42, 35, and 35 points below state results, respectively. SchoolDigger places Early College Middle at the 94th statewide percentile and Cesar Chavez at the 4th.

Average results improved from 2024–25 to 2025–26: ELA rose 2 points, math 5, and science 10. Even so, progress differed by school: Foster gained 10 points in ELA, 14 in math, and 22 in science, while Compton Early College High fell 9, 17, and 22 points in those subjects. Graduation was 100% at Compton Early College High, while chronic absenteeism reached 98% at Cesar Chavez. Context measures do not form a simple performance pattern: the free/reduced lunch eligible measure for 2024–25 ranged from 80% at Compton STEP to 93% at Bunche Middle; Enterprise Middle reported a 18.0 student–teacher ratio, compared with 28.0 at Early College Middle.

Ranking:
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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the California Department of Education.

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