Rosewood Avenue Elementary vs Vernon City Elementary

Rosewood Avenue Elementary and Vernon City Elementary are both Los Angeles public elementary schools, but their MySchoolScout ratings tell different stories. Rosewood Avenue Elementary scores 9.4/10 versus Vernon City Elementary's 8.9/10 — a 0.5-point gap that widens considerably when viewed through state rankings: Rosewood Avenue Elementary sits at #291 of 9,533 California schools while Vernon City Elementary ranks #44 of 9,533, placing it among the top half-percent of all elementary schools in the state despite its lower composite rating.

Academically, Vernon City Elementary pulls ahead with a 9.1/10 academic score against Rosewood Avenue Elementary's 7.7/10 — a 1.4-point difference that represents the sharpest delta between the two schools. Both schools demonstrate strong student growth, with Vernon City Elementary edging out a 9.8/10 growth score versus Rosewood Avenue Elementary's already-impressive 9.4/10. Vernon City Elementary's combination of high academic proficiency and near-maximum growth is unusual and helps explain its elite state rank despite the composite rating gap.

The two schools serve meaningfully different student populations. Rosewood Avenue Elementary enrolls 232 students with 67% qualifying for free or reduced lunch, while Vernon City Elementary is smaller at 135 students with 96% on free or reduced lunch — a 29-point gap indicating Vernon City Elementary serves a significantly higher-poverty community. Rosewood Avenue Elementary's student-teacher ratio is 17.8:1 compared to Vernon City Elementary's 19.3:1, giving Rosewood Avenue Elementary a slight classroom-size advantage despite its larger enrollment.

One structural difference worth noting: Vernon City Elementary serves grades KG through 6, extending one year beyond Rosewood Avenue Elementary's KG–5 range. Families who value keeping a child in the same school building through sixth grade — avoiding an additional transition — will find that only Vernon City Elementary offers that continuity. The two schools sit 9.8 miles apart in Los Angeles, making them unlikely to be geographically interchangeable for most families, though both are meaningfully above the California average in performance.