Tibby Elementary

Tibby Elementary operates as a medium-sized elementary campus in Compton, California, overseen by Compton Unified. Current enrollment sits at 554 students spanning grades K through 8.

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

On demographics, Tibby Elementary shows that 71% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest consists of 26% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Tibby Elementary has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.7:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 90% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, Tibby 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 25.8%; Tibby Elementary posts 56.6%, +30.8 points above that line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Tibby Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Laurel Street Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Tibby Elementary. On composite proficiency, Tibby Elementary comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 37.0%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Tibby Elementary has edged down 29%, going from 780 students in 2018 to 554 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 54% to 71% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 26.4:1 in 2018 to 24.7:1 today.

On allk12, the feed for Tibby Elementary typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.