Thurgood Marshall
Compton · CA · Compton Unified · Public · K-12 combined
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Manuel Dominguez High → Cesar Chavez Continuation High → Paramount Unified Community Day → Compton Unified ROP → Jordan High → Epiphany Academy → Compton High → Marco Antonio Firebaugh High →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 6% of US high schools
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 44% (Bottom 8% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Thurgood Marshall compares for families
What families should know about Thurgood Marshall.
- ▸ LocallyCA trails the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (−4 points). Stronger local schools matter even more.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Manuel Dominguez High, Cesar Chavez Continuation High, Paramount Unified Community Day and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts
What % of students graduate on time?
Bottom 8% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate
Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
High-poverty school
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥75% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. These schools qualify for the highest tier of federal Title I funding and typically receive extra wraparound services. Academic outcomes vary widely — check the state assessment + grad-rate tiles.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -20.4%/year, projecting from 2024's 51 students:
A small or specialty program — naive trend math doesn't capture the school's full picture. Read the trend as directional, not predictive.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manuel Dominguez High Compton |
Public | 0.0 | 1,582 | -16.2% |
| Cesar Chavez Continuation High Compton |
Public | 0.0 | 263 | +7.8% |
| Paramount Unified Community Day Paramount |
Public | 1.4 | 10 | — |
| Compton Unified ROP Compton |
Public | 1.4 | — | — |
| Jordan High Long Beach |
Public | 1.5 | 2,272 | -1.9% |
| Epiphany Academy Compton |
Private | 1.5 | 21 | — |
| Compton High Compton |
Public | 1.6 | 1,438 | +11.5% |
| Marco Antonio Firebaugh High Lynwood |
Public | 1.8 | 1,633 | -7.7% |