In 1993 the State of California offered to loan the school district $20 million in exchange for temporary control of the school district; the rationale for wanting to take control included both financial problems and poor academic performance, making Compton USD the only California school district to ever have a takeover for both reasons. The state had complete control over the school district. Test scores had a modest increase as a result. In 1997 Jeff Leeds of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the physical conditions of the campuses had deteriorated since the takeover. Delaine Eastin, the California State Superintendent of Public Instruction, decided not to close the school district despite receiving requests to do so.[3] By 1997 Compton USD began to repay the loan.[3]
Schools
Continuation schools
Cesar Chavez Continuation High School (Unincorporated area)
^"2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Los Angeles County, CA" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. p. 10 (PDF p. 11/19). Retrieved 2023-11-19. - detail of Willowbrook CDP
^ a bLeeds, Jeff (1997-01-26). "State Fails to Stop Compton Schools' Slide Into Decay". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
^"School Web Template". Archived from the original on 2008-08-03. Retrieved 2008-04-06.
^"School Web Template". Archived from the original on 2008-01-15. Retrieved 2008-04-06.