Emerson Elementary

Emerson Elementary, a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in Compton, California, one of the schools within Compton Unified, teaches 544 students, covering grades K through 8.

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

Demographically, Emerson Elementary logs that nearly all students (82%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 14% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 91% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Emerson Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.5%; this one delivers 24.5%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Emerson Elementary is one.

Compton High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Emerson Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 35.9%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Emerson Elementary has decreased 7%, going from 584 students in 2018 to 544 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 72% to 82% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 25.4:1 in 2018 to 23.9:1 in 2025.

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