Comments on: Compton Unified’s sharp attendance jump: Too good to be true? https://calwatchdog.com/2013/01/22/compton-unifieds-sharp-attendance-jump-too-good-to-be-true/ Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:09:44 +0000 hourly 1 By: double l https://calwatchdog.com/2013/01/22/compton-unifieds-sharp-attendance-jump-too-good-to-be-true/#comment-7068 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:09:44 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=36953#comment-7068 Hey Hondo, Jerry Clown is a great moniker. I like it!

]]> By: Hondo https://calwatchdog.com/2013/01/22/compton-unifieds-sharp-attendance-jump-too-good-to-be-true/#comment-7067 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:35:05 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=36953#comment-7067 Lets not forget that Kalifornia fudged its unemployment numbers before the election to make Obama look better. The liberals are in a frenzy of lying and greed. Jerry Clown says the budget is balanced but he forgets about the 500 billion in pension debt. Soon every school district will be claiming huge jumps in students.
Maybe when Jerry Clown emptied the prisons, the inmates headed back to class (thats raciest, Hondo).
Hondo…

]]> By: Kevin Dayton, Labor Issues Solutions, LLC https://calwatchdog.com/2013/01/22/compton-unifieds-sharp-attendance-jump-too-good-to-be-true/#comment-7066 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:43:20 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=36953#comment-7066 According to this 2003 official statement for Compton USD bond sales, the official daily attendance in 1999-2000 was 28,188. In 2002-03 it was 30,485, for a population estimated at 103,000. So supposedly 30% of the population was going to the Compton USD schools.

http://emma.msrb.org/MS204511-MS179819-MD348537.pdf (2003)

According to this 2006 official statement for Compton USD bond sales, the official daily attendance in 2004-2005 was 30,594, for a population estimated at 100,000. So supposedly 31% of the population was going to the Compton USD schools.

http://emma.msrb.org/MS53071-MS222945-MS615813.pdf (2006)

From a different source (US Census Bureau through Google) the population of Compton was estimated in 2011 at 97,156. And they claim 25,000 students now, according to this article. So supposedly 25.7% of the population is going to the Compton USD schools.

The number of students and the ratio of students to the total population seem to have decreased significantly since the mid-2000s – a trend which seems to match the experience of working class areas throughout California. Unemployment rates have improved in some of these cities, so it’s possible families with children are coming back or moving in.

If someone had the time to measure these numbers for the state’s 50 largest school districts, you would have a big enough group to make comparisons and identify the “exceptional” districts among them. Just looking at Compton USD’s statistics over time in isolation, I would not have been suspicious.

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