Compton Avenue Elementary

Located at 1515 East 104th St., in Los Angeles, California, Compton Avenue Elementary is a small primary school that works with 265 students (grades K through 5), overseen by Los Angeles Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Compton Avenue Elementary sits 43% below that benchmark.

Los Angeles Unified comprises 784 schools with combined enrollment of 406,887 students; Compton Avenue Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Compton Avenue Elementary logs that 76% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 16% Black, 5% multiracial, 2% White. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Compton Avenue Elementary has 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Compton Avenue Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 96% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Compton Avenue Elementary is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 22.4%; this one delivers 41.4%, a residual of +19.0 points.

In the area at large, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household income runs about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Compton Avenue Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Edwin Markham Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Compton Avenue Elementary. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Compton Avenue Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 17.8%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 27%: 365 students in 2018 compared to 265 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment contracted from 21% to 16% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 22.8:1 in 2018 to 18.3:1 today.

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