Bunche Middle

Located at 12338 Mona Blvd., in Compton, California, Bunche Middle is a cozy middle-grades school that instructs 286 students (grades 6 through 8), operated by Compton Unified. That puts it 57% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 659 students.

Compton Unified runs 36 schools in total, collectively educating 16,304 students. Bunche Middle is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Bunche Middle lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (81%). Beyond that, the school shows 16% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 93% of students at Bunche Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Bunche Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.9%, the actual is 24.4%, a residual of +0.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Bunche Middle is one.

The closest other public school is Martin Luther King Elementary, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Bunche Middle at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 47.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 31%: 414 students in 2018 compared to 286 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share declined from 88% to 81%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 26.9:1 in 2018 to 25.2:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Bunche Middle typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.