Comptche Elementary

Comptche Elementary is an elementary campus of one-room-style scale in Comptche, California, part of Mendocino Unified, teacheing 9 students in grades K through 3. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Comptche Elementary sits 98% smaller than that benchmark.

Mendocino Unified runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 440 students. Comptche Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Comptche Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%). The remainder looks like 11% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 64%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 1 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 67% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Mendocino County) shows that median household income runs about $68,092, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Comptche Elementary is one of 66 public schools in Mendocino County (combined enrollment of about 12,738 students).

Albion Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 7.2 miles from this campus.

Comptche Elementary operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Comptche Elementary has declined 31%, going from 13 students in 2018 to 9 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 38% to 0% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 9.0:1 in 2025.

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