Longfellow Elementary

Longfellow Elementary is one of the middle-of-the-pack K-5 schools in Compton, California, run under Compton Unified, with 450 students on its rolls from grades K through 8.

Compton Unified runs 36 schools in total, collectively educating 16,304 students. Longfellow Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Longfellow Elementary logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 76%; the rest reads as 22% Black. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Longfellow Elementary has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 25.0:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 89% of students at Longfellow Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Longfellow Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 26.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 28.6%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Longfellow Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Walton Middle, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Longfellow Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 41.8%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Longfellow Elementary's enrollment has declined 12% since 2018, when it stood at 513 (now 450). Class-load math has tightened: from 27.0:1 in 2018 to 25.0:1 in 2025.

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