COMPTON — School district and civic officials were on hand May 22 for a ribbon-cutting ceremony marking the reopening of Compton High School.

The new state-of-the-art $200 million campus was dedicated during a ceremony attended by Dr Dre, whose $10 million donation to the district funded the 40,868-square-foot Andre “Dr. Dre” Young Performing Arts Center on the new campus. Also in attendance was Compton High alum and NBA standout Demar DeRozan.

The new 31-acre campus for the nearly 120-year-old school will serve more than 1,800 students and feature a 140,639-square-foot academic building, a 36,534-square-foot gymnasium, a half-size Olympic pool and enhanced landscaping with California native plants, officials said.

The project was mostly funded through the district’s bond measure Measur

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