Best K-6 public elementary schools in Los Angeles ?

[Anonymous]

All schools in the Palos Verdes School District.

[Anonymous]

If you want to stay near Santa Monica, mid-city, and downtown, perhaps look at some of the west LA elementary schools, including Westwood Charter, Fairburn, Overland Avenue. There are some pockets in that general area (e.g., in Rancho Park) that would fit your budget, and those elementary schools are solid. However, most elementary schools in this area are K-5, not K-6, so be mindful of how that affects your middle school options. (If you're set on private upper school, for instance, some start at 7th, so you'll need to go elsewhere for that 6th grade year.) Roscomare (mentioned earlier) and Warner Avenue are great options, but I don't think you can find anything in their boundaries for 2.5M.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you want to stay near Santa Monica, mid-city, and downtown, perhaps look at some of the west LA elementary schools, including Westwood Charter, Fairburn, Overland Avenue. There are some pockets in that general area (e.g., in Rancho Park) that would fit your budget, and those elementary schools are solid. However, most elementary schools in this area are K-5, not K-6, so be mindful of how that affects your middle school options. (If you're set on private upper school, for instance, some start at 7th, so you'll need to go elsewhere for that 6th grade year.) Roscomare (mentioned earlier) and Warner Avenue are great options, but I don't think you can find anything in their boundaries for 2.5M.

We lived in Rancho Park and our kids attended the Lycee ES for a year before we moved back to DC. It's an affordable private which has several campuses all the way through 12th.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Define "best"? Do you mean high-SES, ratio of parents with college degree+, etc. ergo higher test scores? Or do you mean for example a school where your kid(s) will get exposed to both racial and economic diversity, while still receiving a strong education from great teachers that is appropriate to their level/aptitude, even if the overall test scores for the school are lower due to the greater economic diversity of the student body? Or something else?

The bolded is what I mean by “best” and I think you know that - not OP

Yes, sadly that does seem to be the most common, and narrow, interpretation.

[Anonymous]

OP are you looking for best K-6 publics because you know you'll need to go private for middle school/high school? If so I'd focus on living not too far away from the privates you want to apply to later and then overlay that with good public elementary schools if at all possible. Private schools in LA do have bus programs but who wants their kid to sit in this crappy traffic and lose homework time…

[Anonymous]

Overland Avenue Elementary is the best in the Westside. Sadly I’ve not been hearing anything good these days about Westwood Charter (from parents/kids directly).

Don’t be intimidated by LAUSD middle schools. It’s actually fairly do-able to permit in/do the e-choices process to get into a magnet or even choose a public charter school. We’ve been pleasantly surprised by the good school options! (Can’t afford nor would we want private/parochial)