Compton High School is ranked 912nd within California. Students have the opportunity to take Advanced Placement® coursework and exams. The AP® participation rate at Compton High School is 40%.

Harris was invited to the celebration by Myshay Causey, a senior and student board member of the Compton Unified School District. In April, Causey worked at an event attended by Douglas Emhoff, the ...

High-tech classrooms are being rebranded as "learning studios" and will function more much like college lecture halls at the new Compton High School. Will the concept catch on?

Compton High School's new campus, shown in February, will open in August. Compton's school system's academic progress is outpacing the state as a whole. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) ...

Compton High School’s new campus, shown in February, will open in August. Compton’s school system’s academic progress is outpacing the state as a whole. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) ...

Students from among the poorest families in California are about to get the newest, most up-to-date public high school in the state as the rebuilt Compton High prepares to open. The brand-new $225 ...

Andre “Dr. Dre” Young, second from right, greets students during the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Compton High School campus on Thursday. Dr. Dre donated $10 million toward the ...

Compton High opened as a one-room schoolhouse in 1896. The school’s mascot, affectionately called the Tarbabe, was born after a community college opened on the campus in 1927.

Dr. Dre opens new $200M Compton High School campus with a performing arts center, gym, theater, and tech programs for 1,800 students.

For many, Compton would not have been the first place to consider starting an art school. But in neighboring Watts, the artist Noah Purifoy, a former high school wood-shop teacher from Alabama ...