Davis Middle

Davis Middle is one of the low-enrollment middle schools in Compton, California, run under Compton Unified, with 520 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Davis Middle sits 21% leaner than that benchmark.

Compton Unified comprises 36 schools with combined enrollment of 16,304 students; Davis Middle is among them.

Demographically, Davis Middle logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (84%). The remainder breaks down as 14% Black. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Davis Middle reports 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 26.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Roughly 90% of students at Davis Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Davis Middle ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 25.6%; Davis Middle posts 40.3%, +14.6 points above that line.

In the broader community, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household earnings sit near $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Davis Middle is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Dickison Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Davis Middle. On composite proficiency, Davis Middle comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 43.1%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Davis Middle's enrollment has contracted 7% since 2018, when it stood at 560 (now 520).

On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.