Canfield Avenue Elementary vs Overland Avenue Elementary

Canfield Avenue Elementary and Overland Avenue Elementary are both Los Angeles elementary schools serving kindergarten through fifth grade, separated by just 1.9 miles — but their ratings tell meaningfully different stories. Canfield Avenue Elementary holds a 9.4/10 overall rating versus Overland Avenue Elementary's 8.9/10, a 0.5-point gap that reflects a significant difference in state rank: Canfield Avenue Elementary sits at #63 of 9,533 schools in California, while Overland Avenue Elementary ranks #358. Both are high-performing schools by any measure, but Canfield Avenue Elementary's rank places it in the top 1% statewide.

The academic scores are nearly identical — Overland Avenue Elementary edges Canfield Avenue Elementary by a tenth of a point, 9.8 to 9.7 — meaning neither school has a meaningful advantage in raw proficiency. The sharper difference is in growth: Canfield Avenue Elementary scores 9.8/10 on student growth versus Overland Avenue Elementary's 8.3/10. That 1.5-point delta means Canfield Avenue Elementary's students are advancing at a substantially faster pace relative to academic expectations, regardless of where they start.

The two schools look quite different on demographics and classroom environment. Overland Avenue Elementary is 65% larger, enrolling 488 students compared to Canfield Avenue Elementary's 296. That scale shows up in the student-teacher ratio: 23.2:1 at Overland Avenue Elementary versus 21.1:1 at Canfield Avenue Elementary. The economic profiles diverge sharply — 49% of Canfield Avenue Elementary students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch compared to just 12% at Overland Avenue Elementary, indicating Canfield Avenue Elementary serves a substantially more economically diverse student body.

Both schools cover the same grade span, KG–05, so there is no structural difference in the years of education offered. The core distinction is that Canfield Avenue Elementary delivers its top-tier outcomes with a more economically mixed population and a lower student-teacher ratio, while Overland Avenue Elementary achieves slightly higher proficiency scores in a larger, more affluent, and more classroom-dense setting.