Enrollment
326
Elementary
DISTRICT 573 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DESERT SANDS UNIFIED·NCES 061111001225
Herbert Hoover Elementary
44-300 Monroe St., Indio, CA 92201 · (760) 775-3820 · Riverside County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL326 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
24.1:1
14 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.4:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
97%
316 students
DISTRICT 79% · STATE 65%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 65 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 46 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 63 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 44 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 57 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 51 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (65) is 27% larger than its 5th grade class (51).
Student demographics
16%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
20.4%
CA avg 49.1% . +0.4pp since 2014
Math
14.6%
CA avg 37.7% . -1.4pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 20 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 15 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2014, while math scores are down about 1 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 6.8% | 13.6% | 21.1% | 58.5% |
| Math | 4.6% | 9.9% | 25.8% | 59.6% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 20.4% | 14.6% |
| 2023-24 | 23.4% | 16.0% |
| 2022-23 | 20.7% | 10.4% |
| 2021-22 | 16.6% | 10.8% |
| 2018-19 | 21.5% | 24.1% |
| 2017-18 | 28.3% | 30.3% |
| 2016-17 | 25.8% | 25.6% |
| 2015-16 | 26.0% | 23.0% |
| 2014-15 | 20.0% | 16.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
18.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.8%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 18% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 23% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Herbert Hoover Elementary
Herbert Hoover Elementary's state test result (18.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Herbert Hoover Elementary this school | 326 | 96.9% | 18.2% |
| Adams Elementary Santa Ana | 320 | 96.3% | 26.7% |
| Hillery T. Broadous Elementary Pacoima | 343 | 96.5% | 30.2% |
| Aspire Firestone Academy Charter South Gate | 330 | 95.8% | N/A |
| Stanford Avenue Elementary South Gate | 329 | 96.7% | 47.3% |
| Aspire Gateway Academy Charter South Gate | 344 | 95.3% | N/A |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Herbert Hoover Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Riverside County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 18.2% | #4,728 of 5,151 | #261 of 283 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 14.6% | #4,782 of 5,172 ▼ 189 | #257 of 283 ▼ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 20.4% | #4,815 of 5,172 ▼ 356 | #274 of 283 ▼ 29 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +3.8pp | #2,023 of 5,116 | #124 of 280 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 326 | #4,508 of 5,915 | #288 of 296 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 24.1:1 | #3,866 of 5,352 | #209 of 292 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 16.2% | #4,634 of 5,354 | #251 of 292 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 96.9% | #212 of 5,625 | #5 of 294 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -25.9% | #830 of 3,837 | #23 of 207 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
326
-48 (-13%) vs 2020
-52% since 1990-91, when it was 685
Student : Teacher
24.1:1
was 24.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 326 | 13.5 | 24.1:1 | 97% (316) |
| 2023-24 | 335 | 12 | 27.9:1 | 89% (297) |
| 2022-23 | 343 | 12 | 28.6:1 | 80% (274) |
| 2020-21 | 374 | 15 | 24.9:1 | 96% (359) |
| 2017-18 | 440 | 19.5 | 22.6:1 | 98% (429) |
| 2015-16 | 505 | 23 | 22.0:1 | 95% (481) |
| 2010-11 | 466 | N/A | N/A | 86% (403) |
| 2000-01 | 657 | 36 | 18.3:1 | 83% (547) |
| 1990-91 | 685 | 27 | 25.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Herbert Hoover Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 26% (440 to 326); teachers down 31% (19.5 to 13.5).
About Herbert Hoover Elementary
Students in Indio, California, attend Herbert Hoover Elementary, a small elementary school. In all, 326 students attend the school in kindergarten through 5. That puts enrollment 30% below the 465-student average for elementary schools in California.
Desert Sands Unified is responsible for 34 schools, Herbert Hoover Elementary included, with 25,613 students in all.
Of every 100 students at Herbert Hoover Elementary, about 91 are Hispanic. The school is also 4% multiracial. That is higher than the 51% Hispanic share among all Riverside County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 16%.
On staff are 13.5 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 24.1:1. Elementary schools in California average 22.3:1, 1.8 fewer students per teacher than here. Herbert Hoover Elementary has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 97%. Public schools in Riverside County average 74%.
The model predicts 22.8% for a school in California with Herbert Hoover Elementary's free or reduced-price lunch share. Herbert Hoover Elementary posts 18.2%.
Looking at the county, Riverside County, median household income comes to about $93,074, about 26% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 8% of residents are in poverty. The county has 543 public schools and about 424,872 students.
A public school about 0.5 miles away, Lyndon B. Johnson Elementary, is the closest to Herbert Hoover Elementary. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Herbert Hoover Elementary. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Herbert Hoover Elementary is 4th of 8 on proficiency.
Herbert Hoover Elementary is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 13%, from 374 to 326.
Anyone can start a thread about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures at Herbert Hoover Elementary. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Riverside County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,478,600
Census ACS
Median income
$93,074
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
543
424,872 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Desert Sands Unified
- La Quinta HighHigh · 2,425 students
- Palm Desert HighHigh · 2,079 students
- Indio HighHigh · 1,962 students
- Shadow Hills HighHigh · 1,650 students
- Palm Desert Charter MiddleMiddle · 1,298 students
- John Glenn Middle School of International StudiesMiddle · 1,099 students
Other schools in Indio
- Indio HighHigh · 1,962 students
- Shadow Hills HighHigh · 1,650 students
- John Glenn Middle School of International StudiesMiddle · 1,099 students
- Desert Ridge AcademyMiddle · 962 students
- Indio MiddleMiddle · 768 students
- Andrew Jackson ElementaryElementary · 750 students
Other Herbert Hoover Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 3 states are named Herbert Hoover Elementary. Herbert Hoover Elementary is the 5th largest of the 5.
- Herbert Hoover ElementaryPalo Alto, CA · 389 students
- HERBERT HOOVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBUFFALO, NY · 570 students
- Herbert Hoover Elementary SchoolIowa City, IA · 464 students
- Herbert Hoover Elementary SchoolBettendorf, IA · 359 students
Nearby schools
- Lyndon B. Johnson Elementary0.5 mi · 560
- John F. Kennedy Elementary0.6 mi · 390
- Indio High0.9 mi · 1,962
- Indio Middle1.0 mi · 768
- Andrew Jackson Elementary1.0 mi · 750
- Carrillo Ranch Elementary1.2 mi · 459
Frequently asked questions
About Herbert Hoover ElementaryHow many students attend Herbert Hoover Elementary?
Herbert Hoover Elementary enrolls approximately 326 students in grades KG-05.
Is Herbert Hoover Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Herbert Hoover Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Herbert Hoover Elementary have?
Herbert Hoover Elementary employs 14 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 24.1:1.
What is the student diversity at Herbert Hoover Elementary?
Student demographics at Herbert Hoover Elementary are roughly 2% White, 91% Hispanic, 1% Black, 2% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Herbert Hoover Elementary?
Herbert Hoover Elementary is overseen by Desert Sands Unified in Riverside County.
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