Mayo Elementary

Mayo Elementary is one of the average-sized elementary-level communitys in Compton, California, part of Compton Unified, with 440 students on its rolls from grades K through 8.

Mayo Elementary is one of 36 schools operated by Compton Unified, a district that enrolls 16,304 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Mayo Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (94%). The remainder reads as 5% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.4:1 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. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Mayo Elementary 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 26.4%; Mayo Elementary posts 44.1%, +17.7 points above that line.

In the area at large, census data for Los Angeles County shows 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%. Mayo Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

The closest other public school is Lifeline Education Charter, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Mayo Elementary comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 37.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mayo Elementary has ticked down 30%, going from 633 students in 2018 to 440 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 89% to 94% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 27.5:1 in 2018 to 24.4:1 today.

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