Thurgood Marshall

Thurgood Marshall, a micro-enrollment combined-grade school in Compton, California, run under Compton Unified, hosts 51 students, covering grades K through 12. Compared to the state average of about 602 students per school, that is 92% leaner than typical.

Within Compton Unified, which oversees 36 schools and 16,304 students, Thurgood Marshall is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Thurgood Marshall records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 65%; the rest looks like 29% Black, 4% Pacific Islander. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.6:1 average. An estimated 88% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 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, Thurgood Marshall performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.9%, the actual is 23.4%, a residual of -3.5 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household income runs about $90,112, 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 Thurgood Marshall is one.

The closest other public school is Cesar Chavez Continuation High, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Thurgood Marshall comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 33.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Looking at the recent track record. Thurgood Marshall's enrollment has edged down 28% since 2018, when it stood at 71 (now 51). Over the same period, the Hispanic share declined from 77% to 65%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 142.0:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 today.

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