Charnock Road Elementary vs Charles H. Kim Elementary

Charles H. Kim Elementary outranks Charnock Road Elementary by a wide margin in California's statewide rankings — Kim sits at #9 of 9,533 schools while Charnock Road comes in at #438. That translates to an overall rating gap of 0.9 points, with Charles H. Kim Elementary scoring 9.6/10 against Charnock Road Elementary's 8.7/10. Both are strong schools in absolute terms, but the distance between #9 and #438 in a state with over 9,500 schools is substantial.

The academic and growth data tell the same story. Charles H. Kim Elementary posts a 9.5/10 academic score versus Charnock Road Elementary's 8.4/10 — a 1.1-point gap. On growth, the spread widens: Kim scores 9.8/10 compared to Charnock Road's 8.5/10, a 1.3-point difference. Growth scores measure how much students advance relative to peers with similar starting points, so Kim is not only performing at a higher level but accelerating students faster year over year.

Demographically, the two schools are close. Both serve kindergarten through 5th grade and carry high free and reduced-price lunch rates — 91% at Charnock Road Elementary and 88% at Charles H. Kim Elementary — meaning both campuses serve predominantly low-income families. Charles H. Kim Elementary is larger, with 472 students versus Charnock Road's 286. Student-teacher ratios are nearly identical: 17.9:1 at Charnock Road and 18.2:1 at Kim, so neither school offers meaningfully smaller class sizes.

The schools are 7.4 miles apart within Los Angeles, both covering the same KG–05 grade span. Given that the demographic profiles overlap so tightly — comparable FRL rates, comparable class sizes, the same grade levels — Charles H. Kim Elementary's performance edge cannot be explained away by enrollment composition or resource advantages. Parents weighing the two schools are looking at two similarly resourced campuses where one is simply producing stronger academic and growth outcomes by a measurable margin.