Enterprise Middle

Located at 2600 West Compton Blvd., in Compton, California, Enterprise Middle is a rural-scale junior high that teaches 182 students (grades 6 through 8), operated by Compton Unified. Enrollment runs roughly 72% below the state mean of about 659.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Enterprise Middle reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 68% of enrollment. Other groups include 29% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Enterprise Middle tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 88% of students at Enterprise Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Enterprise Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 27.1%; this one delivers 21.6%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put 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%. Enterprise Middle is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Bursch Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Enterprise Middle comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.6%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Looking at the recent track record. Enterprise Middle's enrollment has fell 58% since 2018, when it stood at 430 (now 182). Hispanic enrollment moved from 62% to 68% across the same window.

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