Twenty-Fourth Street Elementary vs Charles H. Kim Elementary

Twenty-Fourth Street Elementary ranks #118 of 9,533 California schools, a strong result by any measure — but Charles H. Kim Elementary ranks #9 of those same 9,533 schools, placing it among the top 0.1% in the state. That gap is reflected in their overall ratings: Charles H. Kim Elementary scores 9.6/10 against Twenty-Fourth Street Elementary's 9.2/10, a difference that understates how much separates a top-100 school from a top-10 school in a state this large.

Academically, the delta is concrete: Charles H. Kim Elementary holds a 9.5/10 academic score versus 8.2/10 at Twenty-Fourth Street Elementary, a 1.3-point gap that represents meaningfully higher tested proficiency. The growth scores tell the opposite story — Twenty-Fourth Street Elementary posts a 9.9/10 growth score against Charles H. Kim Elementary's 9.8/10, making them effectively equal on year-over-year student progress. Twenty-Fourth Street Elementary is getting strong learning gains out of its student body; Charles H. Kim Elementary combines those gains with a higher absolute achievement floor.

Both schools serve similar-sized populations — Twenty-Fourth Street Elementary enrolls 454 students, Charles H. Kim Elementary 472 — but the classrooms differ. Charles H. Kim Elementary's student-teacher ratio of 18.2:1 edges out Twenty-Fourth Street Elementary's 19.7:1, meaning slightly more adult attention per child. On economic need, Twenty-Fourth Street Elementary serves a higher-poverty population: 96% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch compared to 88% at Charles H. Kim Elementary. That 8-point difference matters for contextualizing each school's academic score, and makes Twenty-Fourth Street Elementary's near-perfect growth score even more notable.

One structural difference separates the schools for families with older elementary-age children: Charles H. Kim Elementary serves grades KG through 5, while Twenty-Fourth Street Elementary stops at grade 4, requiring a school transition one year earlier. Families with a current third- or fourth-grader need to account for where fifth grade happens — at Twenty-Fourth Street Elementary, that answer is somewhere else.