Compton Junior High

Compton Junior High is one of the mid-tier middle-grades schools in Bakersfield, California, one of the schools within Bakersfield City, with 586 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 8.

Bakersfield City runs 44 schools in total, collectively educating 28,365 students. Compton Junior High is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Compton Junior High lists that 86% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest comes out to 8% White, 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 57% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 86% of students at Compton Junior High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Kern County's rate of about 76%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Compton Junior High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.4%, the actual is 18.5%, a residual of -9.8 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Kern County put the typical household earns roughly $70,210 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, Kern County runs 279 public schools (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students), of which Compton Junior High is one.

Harding Elementary 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 Junior High. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Compton Junior High ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 27.3%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Compton Junior High's enrollment has declined 13% since 2018, when it stood at 673 (now 586). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 25.4:1 in 2018 to 20.6:1 today.

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