Enrollment
389
Elementary
DISTRICT 330 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PALO ALTO UNIFIED·NCES 062961004581
Herbert Hoover Elementary
445 East Charleston Rd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 · (650) 320-8106 · Santa Clara County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL389 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 98% of California public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
19.5:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.1:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
7%
26 students
DISTRICT 14% · 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 | 53 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 66 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 64 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 69 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 69 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 68 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (53) is 22% smaller than its 5th grade class (68).
Student demographics
39%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · 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
91.8%
CA avg 49.1% . +2.8pp since 2014
Math
92.8%
CA avg 37.7% . +1.8pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 92 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 93 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 2 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 76.2% | 15.5% | 3.4% | 4.8% |
| Math | 82.1% | 10.6% | 4.3% | 2.9% |
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 | 91.8% | 92.8% |
| 2023-24 | 92.8% | 94.2% |
| 2022-23 | 95.0% | 95.0% |
| 2021-22 | 90.9% | 90.3% |
| 2020-21 | 88.0% | 91.2% |
| 2018-19 | 86.7% | 94.2% |
| 2017-18 | 87.7% | 94.2% |
| 2016-17 | 92.2% | 92.7% |
| 2015-16 | 91.0% | 93.0% |
| 2014-15 | 89.0% | 91.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
92.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
75.6%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 93% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 76% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in California's top 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 (92.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Herbert Hoover Elementary this school | 389 | 6.7% | 92.9% |
| Argonaut Elementary Saratoga | 367 | 2.5% | 90.7% |
| Live Oak Elementary San Ramon | 438 | 9.1% | 75.5% |
| Fred E. Weibel Elementary Fremont | 362 | 13.3% | 85.5% |
| Henry P. Mohr Elementary Pleasanton | 492 | 9.6% | 86.8% |
| Silver Oak Elementary San Jose | 469 | 8.7% | 79.9% |
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 Santa Clara County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 92.9% | #4 of 5,151 | #3 of 226 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 92.8% | #8 of 5,172 ▼ 2 | #4 of 226 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 91.8% | #9 of 5,172 ▼ 3 | #3 of 226 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.7pp | #2,765 of 5,116 | #73 of 225 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 389 | #3,824 of 5,915 | #148 of 255 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.5:1 | #718 of 5,352 | #47 of 247 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 38.6% | #3,521 of 5,354 | #185 of 247 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 6.7% | #5,548 of 5,625 | #239 of 252 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.0% | #3,643 of 3,837 | #182 of 189 |
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
389
+37 (+11%) vs 2020
0% since 1990-91, when it was 388
Student : Teacher
19.5:1
was 18.5:1
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 | 389 | 20 | 19.5:1 | 7% (26) |
| 2023-24 | 386 | 19.8 | 19.5:1 | 5% (20) |
| 2022-23 | 386 | 20.8 | 18.5:1 | 6% (24) |
| 2020-21 | 352 | 19 | 18.5:1 | 6% (21) |
| 2017-18 | 397 | 19 | 20.9:1 | 8% (30) |
| 2015-16 | 406 | 19 | 21.4:1 | 7% (28) |
| 2010-11 | 407 | N/A | N/A | 4% (18) |
| 2000-01 | 352 | 18 | 19.6:1 | 4% (14) |
| 1990-91 | 388 | 15 | 25.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Herbert Hoover Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (397 to 389); teachers up 5% (19 to 20).
About Herbert Hoover Elementary
Herbert Hoover Elementary is a small elementary school with its address in Palo Alto, California. It enrolls 389 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are kindergarten through 5.
The district for Herbert Hoover Elementary is Palo Alto Unified, with 20 schools and 10,187 students.
The student body at Herbert Hoover Elementary is 77% Asian. After that, the student body is 8% White, 8% multiracial, and 5% Hispanic. Among all residents of Santa Clara County, the Asian share is about 41%. A diversity index of 39% means there is a 39% chance two randomly chosen students at Herbert Hoover Elementary are from different groups.
On staff are 20 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 19.5:1. Statewide, elementary schools in California average 22.3:1. Herbert Hoover Elementary has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 7%. On average, public schools in Santa Clara County report 37%.
On the allk12 Grade, Herbert Hoover Elementary lands at A+, ahead of 98% of California public elementary schools.
Herbert Hoover Elementary is 17.3 points above expectations on state tests, given its student poverty level, placing it in the top 10% in California.
In the surrounding county, Santa Clara County, median household income comes to about $164,281, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 57% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. The county's public schools total 412, with about 230,059 students.
Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle is the nearest public school to Herbert Hoover Elementary, about 0.2 miles away. Within five miles of Herbert Hoover Elementary, there are at least 8 other public schools. On proficiency, Herbert Hoover Elementary is ahead of the 74.0% nearby average, ranking 1st of 8.
Federal data place Herbert Hoover Elementary in the City: Small locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Herbert Hoover Elementary had a net gain of 37 students, or 11%.
Herbert Hoover Elementary has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
Santa Clara County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,902,047
Census ACS
Median income
$164,281
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
412
230,059 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Palo Alto Unified
- Palo Alto HighHigh · 1,891 students
- Henry M. Gunn HighHigh · 1,643 students
- Jane Lathrop Stanford MiddleMiddle · 1,002 students
- Frank S. Greene Jr. MiddleMiddle · 732 students
- Ellen Fletcher MiddleMiddle · 572 students
- Ohlone ElementaryElementary · 464 students
Other schools in Palo Alto
- Palo Alto HighHigh · 1,891 students
- Henry M. Gunn HighHigh · 1,643 students
- Jane Lathrop Stanford MiddleMiddle · 1,002 students
- Frank S. Greene Jr. MiddleMiddle · 732 students
- Ellen Fletcher MiddleMiddle · 572 students
- Ohlone ElementaryElementary · 464 students
Other Herbert Hoover Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 3 states are named Herbert Hoover Elementary. Herbert Hoover Elementary is the 3rd largest of the 5.
- Herbert Hoover ElementaryIndio, CA · 326 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
- Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle0.2 mi · 1,002
- Fairmeadow Elementary0.3 mi · 425
- Greendell0.5 mi · 26
- Palo Verde Elementary0.8 mi · 334
- El Carmelo Elementary1.0 mi · 282
- Monta Loma Elementary1.1 mi · 298
Frequently asked questions
About Herbert Hoover ElementaryHow many students attend Herbert Hoover Elementary?
Herbert Hoover Elementary enrolls approximately 389 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Herbert Hoover Elementary serve?
Herbert Hoover Elementary serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Herbert Hoover Elementary have?
Herbert Hoover Elementary employs 20 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.5:1.
What is the student diversity at Herbert Hoover Elementary?
Student demographics at Herbert Hoover Elementary are roughly 8% White, 5% Hispanic, 1% Black, 77% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is Herbert Hoover Elementary in?
Herbert Hoover Elementary is part of Palo Alto Unified.
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