Second Street Elementary vs Sierra Vista Elementary

Sierra Vista Elementary holds a 9.8/10 overall rating against Second Street Elementary's 8.6/10 — a 1.2-point gap that carries significant weight when mapped to state context. Sierra Vista Elementary ranks #1 of 9,533 California elementary schools, while Second Street Elementary ranks #550 in that same pool. Both schools sit 4.8 miles apart in Los Angeles and serve identical grade bands, making the performance gap the clearest differentiator for families deciding between them.

On academics, Sierra Vista Elementary scores 9.5/10 versus Second Street Elementary's 7.6/10 — a 1.9-point difference. Sierra Vista Elementary also posts a perfect 10.0/10 growth score compared to Second Street Elementary's 8.7/10. Growth scores measure how much students advance relative to peers who start at the same baseline, not just where they finish. Sierra Vista Elementary's lead on both dimensions points to higher absolute achievement and faster year-over-year gains across its student body.

Second Street Elementary enrolls 202 students against Sierra Vista Elementary's 151, making it the larger campus by roughly a quarter. The free and reduced-price lunch rate is 96% at Second Street Elementary versus 84% at Sierra Vista Elementary — a 12-percentage-point gap that reflects a meaningfully different socioeconomic composition. Second Street Elementary's student-teacher ratio of 15.5:1 is actually tighter than Sierra Vista Elementary's 16.8:1, giving it a structural edge in classroom access despite trailing on outcome scores.

Both schools span kindergarten through sixth grade within Los Angeles Unified, serving identical grade levels with no program-level distinction available in the data. The enrollment difference does create a size gap — 202 students versus 151 — that shapes school culture and resource distribution in practice. Sierra Vista Elementary's #1 California rank means it outperforms every other elementary school in the state on the composite rating, including all LAUSD peers, positioning it as the highest-performing public elementary option in one of the country's largest urban districts.