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Compton Unified School District is a school district headquartered in Compton, California, United States. The district serves almost all of Compton, all of East Rancho Dominguez , most of Willowbrook CDP , portions of Carson , Lynwood , West Rancho Dominguez CDP , and a small sliver of Paramount .
The ethnic composition of the student body is: [2] 64% Latino; 33% African-American; 1% Two or more races; 2% Other, multiple, declined to state, or non-response. Students speak English and/or Spanish. 48% of the students are Second-Language Learners (SLL) with 33% of the total enrollment classified as Limited English Proficiency (LEP).
Compton College's team nick-name is the Tartars, named after the Turkic Tatars, so the team nick-name for Compton High School became the "Tartar Babies". The mascot is "Baby Tartar", who wears a diaper and carries a big sword.
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In 2000, educators Catherine Borek, Karen Greene and an all-student cast produced the first theatrical production to take place at Dominguez in over two decades. Their process of mounting the production of Thornton Wilder 's Our Town is the subject of a 2002 documentary by Scott Hamilton Kennedy entitled OT: Our Town .
Compton College is a public community college in Compton, California. From 2006, when it lost its regional accreditation, to 2017, when it regained that accreditation, it operated as a part of El Camino College. [1] Before and after the partnership with El Camino College, the college was operated by the Compton Community College District.
The film documents the efforts by two teachers and twenty-four students to adapt and update Thornton Wilder's 1938 American classic Our Town, set in an all-white small town between the years 1901 and 1913, to better reflect the ethnic background of Dominguez High School and Compton in the year 2000.
Compton is a city located in the Gateway Cities region of southern Los Angeles County, California, United States, [9] situated south of downtown Los Angeles.Compton is one of the oldest cities in the county, and on May 11, 1888, was the eighth city in Los Angeles County to incorporate.