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Compton High School entrance, a 2-story angled U-shaped building with white wrapping facade, blue logo on end of extension
Compton High School

Community Transformation Through College Prep

Client

Compton Unified School District

Project Location

Compton, CA

Students

2,500

Services

Architecture, engineering, interiors

With a rich history spanning over 100 years, Compton High School is a community icon known for producing music and athletic prodigies. Celebrating this legacy, our design creates a campus where students are empowered and fully engaged in their learning process; immersed in real-world environments that allow them to explore various interests and career paths.

Designed specifically for Compton High School, six learning suites advance interdepartmental collaboration and build stronger relationships between students, teachers, and administrators. These separate suites are linked together with moveable walls that open and close, allowing teachers and students to customize their spaces to easily support a variety of learning activities. The campus is organized around a grand diagonal pedestrian boulevard that expands the existing Compton civic core. Called the ‘Academic Boulevard’, this axis reaches toward the community’s civic center to the northeast and to a public park and regional bikeway to the southwest. At one end of the boulevard is a state-of-the-art Performing Arts Complex designed with and partially funded by Compton-native and producer Andre “Dr. Dre” Young. On the opposite end, new fitness and athletic venues celebrate the athletic legacy of Compton High School, providing new world-class competitive athletic facilities for football, baseball, soccer, swimming, tennis, and more.

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Another view of wood alcove. Classroom with blue wall to left. Hallway looks to room with 2 walls of floor to ceiling windows
Education design that is geared toward the future is the future.

Spaces Podcast Features DLR Group Education Designer Todd Ferking

Education and school safety are some of the most polarizing topics in our society today. In this episode, Todd Ferking, an architect and principal at DLR Group, joins the show to discuss school design, philosophy to promote a good educational environment, and achieving a balance in design that will encourage a safe space for students.

Spaces Podcast Features DLR Group Education Designer Todd Ferking


Featured Video
Design Concepts for the Community

​​DLR Group’s vision for a new Compton High School incorporates community access, flexibility to support STEAM classes, ample athletic programming, and a new performing arts center generously funded by Dr. Dre.​

Award

2018 Leroy F. Greene Design and Planning Award of Merit - Project in Design

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