Anderson Elementary

Anderson Elementary operates as a mid-sized elementary school in Compton, California, run under Compton Unified. Current enrollment sits at 451 students spanning grades K through 8.

Within Compton Unified, which oversees 36 schools and 16,304 students, Anderson Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Anderson Elementary logs that 91% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest consists of 8% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Anderson Elementary has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 25.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 91% of students at Anderson Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Anderson Elementary sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 25.3%; actual is 45.5%, +20.2 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household earnings sit near $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Anderson Elementary is one.

Jefferson Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Anderson Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Anderson Elementary at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 45.2%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Anderson Elementary's enrollment has shrank 18% since 2018, when it stood at 548 (now 451). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 28.8:1 in 2018 to 25.1:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.