Carson elementary school singled out by state
Earlier this week, California's Secretary of Education David Long used Bunche Elementary School (a Carson school that's in Compton Unified) to illustrate his point that schools in poorer neighborhoods can stop using that as an excuse for low test scores.
"There are a number of California schools with predominately poor, minority and English learning students that are achieving at high levels, like Ralph Bunche Elementary in Carson and The Preuss School in San Diego," Long said.
Bunche Elementary's students are 99 percent black or Latino, 40 percent English language learners and 95 percent economically disadvantaged. The school has raised its API score from 445 to 846 since 1999. Mikara Solomon is the school's principal.