Charnock Road Elementary vs Multnomah Street Elementary

Multnomah Street Elementary outranks Charnock Road Elementary by a substantial margin in California's statewide standings. Multnomah Street Elementary sits at #20 of 9,533 California schools, placing it in the top 0.2% of the state, while Charnock Road Elementary ranks #438 — still an elite position in the top 5%, but nearly 420 spots behind. The overall rating gap of 0.8 points (9.5 vs. 8.7 out of 10) reflects a consistent performance edge across every measured dimension at Multnomah Street Elementary.

The academic and growth scores tell a sharper story. Multnomah Street Elementary scores 9.3 in academics versus Charnock Road Elementary's 8.4 — a 0.9-point gap — and the growth score difference is even wider: 9.8 versus 8.5, a 1.3-point spread. That growth figure is particularly telling; it measures how much students advance relative to peers with similar starting points, and Multnomah Street Elementary's near-perfect 9.8 suggests students there are accelerating at an exceptional rate regardless of prior achievement.

The two schools serve meaningfully different populations. Charnock Road Elementary enrolls 286 students with 91% qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch — a strong indicator of concentrated economic need. Multnomah Street Elementary enrolls 336 students with a 71% free/reduced lunch rate, still a high-need campus but with somewhat greater socioeconomic diversity. Charnock Road Elementary offers a lower student-teacher ratio of 17.9:1 compared to Multnomah Street Elementary's 19.8:1, meaning roughly two fewer students per teacher — a meaningful difference in daily classroom attention, and one area where Charnock Road Elementary holds a concrete structural advantage.

Both schools cover the same grade span, kindergarten through fifth grade, and both operate within Los Angeles Unified School District. They are 13.5 miles apart, so enrollment boundaries, not academic parity, typically determine which school a family can access. Within that constraint, Multnomah Street Elementary operates at a level most Los Angeles elementary schools simply do not reach.