The City of Compton California - Los Angeles' South Bay
March 10th, 2010
The following excerpts are from the official city website:
Compton Unified School District
Compton City Official Home Page
The Compton School District Empowers Our Youth with Knowledge and Wisdom
Ours is a district committed to the notion that we are all learners who must work together if we are to improve the quality of education for our students. Our responsibility as administrators, educators, civic leaders, and members of the community is to provide an environment that enables our students to reach their highest levels of achievement. At the core of our beliefs is that all children can achieve their maximum potential by mastering the academic, moral, and social curriculum. A quality education must develop independent, self-directed, problem-solvers who are life-long learners. To attain the highest levels of learning, we believe that all children must have the opportunity to learn in the classrooms that are exciting, active, co-operative, and to be able to understand the value and worth of diversity.
Compton City History
The history of the City of Compton can be traced to the earliest missions and ranchos of Spanish California. Most of the present corporate area of Compton was part of the Rancho San Pedro, first granted in 1784 by the Spanish Crown to Juan Jose Dominguez, a retired soldier. In 1867, a group of settlers, led by Griffith Dickenson Compton and William Morton, traveled from northern California in search of milder temperatures. They settled in the area presently known as Compton. The City was officially incorporated in 1888, which makes it one of the first incorporated cities in Los Angeles County. The City of Compton is located along the Alameda Corridor, which travels through historically, one of the nation’s largest manufacturing center. The Alameda Corridor is a passageway for 25 percent of all U.S. water borne international trade. It connects the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles to the Los Angeles and the nation’s major interstate highway system. Together the ports handle 6 billion in traded annually between U.S. and foreign enterprises. The values of trade is expected to increase to 3 billion by 2010.
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