Franklin Avenue Elementary vs Hoover Street Elementary

Franklin Avenue Elementary and Hoover Street Elementary are both KG–05 Los Angeles elementary schools, yet they land in very different positions in the California rankings. Franklin Avenue Elementary sits at #360 of 9,533 California schools, a strong result — but Hoover Street Elementary ranks #19 of 9,533, placing it in the top 0.2 percent of all elementary schools in the state. That gap drives the 0.7-point overall rating difference: Hoover Street Elementary earns a 9.5/10 overall versus Franklin Avenue Elementary's 8.8/10, a meaningful spread for two schools only 3.4 miles apart.

On pure academic output, the two schools are nearly identical: Franklin Avenue Elementary posts a 9.6/10 academic score against Hoover Street Elementary's 9.5/10, a margin of one tenth of a point. Growth tells a different story. Hoover Street Elementary's 9.8/10 growth score outpaces Franklin Avenue Elementary's 9.0/10 by 0.8 points, signaling that Hoover Street students are advancing faster relative to their starting points — an especially meaningful metric for families focused on year-over-year learning gains rather than snapshot proficiency alone.

The two schools serve distinctly different populations. Franklin Avenue Elementary enrolls 405 students with 28 percent qualifying for free or reduced lunch, while Hoover Street Elementary serves 579 students with 97 percent on free or reduced lunch — a 69-percentage-point gap that reflects entirely different socioeconomic contexts. Hoover Street Elementary also offers a more favorable student-teacher ratio of 20.0:1 compared to Franklin Avenue Elementary's 23.8:1, meaning each teacher at Hoover Street covers roughly four fewer students on average, which can translate to more individualized attention across a larger enrollment.

Both schools cover the same grade span, KG through 5th, so families moving between them face no transition in grade configuration. The performance divergence is particularly notable given that Hoover Street Elementary achieves its #19 statewide rank and higher growth score while serving a nearly all-economically-disadvantaged student body — a profile that typically correlates with lower aggregate scores across California.