Willowbrook Middle

Willowbrook Middle is an intermediate school of close-knit scale in Compton, California, part of Compton Unified, educateing 304 students in grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 659 students per school, that is 54% smaller than typical.

Willowbrook Middle is one of 36 schools operated by Compton Unified, a district that serves 16,304 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Willowbrook Middle logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (86%); the rest looks like 13% Black. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 28.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Willowbrook Middle 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 26.6%; Willowbrook Middle posts 75.7%, +49.1 points above that line.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household income runs about $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Willowbrook Middle is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

The closest other public school is Compton Early College High, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Willowbrook Middle comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 43.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Willowbrook Middle has rose 22%, going from 250 students in 2018 to 304 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 30% to 13%. Class-load math has fell: from 29.4:1 in 2018 to 28.0:1 in 2025.

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