Dickison Elementary

Set in Compton, California, Dickison Elementary is a moderately sized elementary school, one of the schools within Compton Unified. It works with 681 students across grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 46% bigger than the state mean of about 465.

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

Looking at the student body, Dickison Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (91%). The remainder breaks down as 7% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Dickison Elementary has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Dickison Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Around 91% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Dickison Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.0%, the actual is 30.7%, a residual of +5.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Los Angeles County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Dickison Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Davis Middle, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Dickison Elementary ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 44.5%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 18%: 834 students in 2018 compared to 681 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 87% to 91%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 30.3:1 in 2018 to 24.3:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.