Nevin Avenue Elementary vs Vine Street Elementary

Vine Street Elementary holds a 0.5-point overall rating advantage over Nevin Avenue Elementary — 9.0 versus 8.5 out of 10 — but the state rank gap tells a sharper story. Vine Street Elementary sits at #287 of 9,533 California schools, placing it in the top 3 percent statewide, while Nevin Avenue Elementary ranks #818 of 9,533, a strong top-9-percent result but a clear step behind. Both schools sit 7.0 miles apart in Los Angeles, serving overlapping age groups with measurably different outcomes.

Academically, the two schools are nearly identical — Vine Street Elementary scores 7.9 out of 10 versus Nevin Avenue Elementary's 7.8, a gap narrow enough to be noise. Where they diverge sharply is on growth: Vine Street Elementary posts a 9.9 out of 10 growth score against Nevin Avenue Elementary's 9.2, a 0.7-point difference that signals students at Vine Street are gaining ground relative to academic peers at a faster rate. That growth edge is the primary driver of Vine Street's higher state rank, not a raw proficiency gap.

The two schools serve meaningfully different populations. Nevin Avenue Elementary enrolls 492 students — more than double Vine Street Elementary's 228 — and carries a student-teacher ratio of 20.5:1 compared to Vine Street's 17.5:1, giving Vine Street students roughly three more minutes of individualized attention per instructional hour. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility runs at 97 percent at Nevin Avenue Elementary versus 85 percent at Vine Street Elementary, a 12-point gap reflecting higher concentrations of economic need at Nevin and making its 9.2 growth score particularly notable given that context.

Nevin Avenue Elementary covers kindergarten through fifth grade, while Vine Street Elementary extends through sixth grade, keeping students in the same building one additional year before the middle school transition. Both schools serve the core elementary window, but families with rising sixth graders face one fewer school transition at Vine Street.