Clover Avenue Elementary vs Hoover Street Elementary

Hoover Street Elementary outranks Clover Avenue Elementary overall — 9.5/10 versus 8.9/10, a 0.6-point gap — but the state rank separation is the sharper story. Hoover Street Elementary sits at #19 of 9,533 California schools, putting it in the top 0.2% statewide. Clover Avenue Elementary ranks #278 of 9,533, which still places it in the top 3% — exceptional by any standard, but a full 259 positions behind its crosstown counterpart. Parents choosing between two genuinely high-performing LA elementary schools are working with real, measurable differences rather than marketing distinctions.

On academics, Clover Avenue Elementary edges ahead: a 9.9/10 academic score versus Hoover Street Elementary's 9.5/10, a 0.4-point difference that reflects strong grade-level proficiency outcomes. The growth picture flips that advantage decisively. Hoover Street Elementary posts a 9.8/10 growth score against Clover Avenue Elementary's 8.9/10 — a 0.9-point gap indicating that Hoover Street students are advancing at a faster rate relative to their starting points. A family weighing whether their child will be pushed to grow year over year, versus attending a school with very high baseline outcomes, will find those two numbers tell different stories.

Demographic and structural differences between the two schools are significant. Hoover Street Elementary serves 579 students compared to Clover Avenue Elementary's 498, and it does so with a meaningfully lower student-teacher ratio: 20.0:1 versus 23.7:1. That means roughly four fewer students per teacher at Hoover Street. The free and reduced-price lunch rates diverge sharply — Clover Avenue Elementary at 40% versus Hoover Street Elementary at 97% — reflecting a substantially different socioeconomic profile across the two campuses, which are 8.3 miles apart within Los Angeles.

Both schools serve kindergarten through fifth grade and operate within the same district. Hoover Street Elementary's high growth score alongside near-universal economic disadvantage is notable — it suggests strong instructional lift for students who arrive with greater barriers. Clover Avenue Elementary's near-perfect academic score reflects a school where students are performing at the highest measured levels of proficiency.