Hoover Elementary

Hoover Elementary is a compact K-5 school in Oakland, California, operated by Oakland Unified. The school instructs 281 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 40% leaner than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Oakland Unified runs 84 schools in total, collectively educating 33,973 students. Hoover Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Hoover Elementary records that 54% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 23% Black, 10% multiracial, 9% White, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 23% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Hoover Elementary has 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 25.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Hoover Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Around 97% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Alameda County's rate of about 49%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hoover Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.8%, the actual is 12.3%, a residual of -9.5 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Alameda County) reports that median household earnings sit near $129,367, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Alameda County runs 394 public schools (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students), of which Hoover Elementary is one.

McClymonds High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hoover Elementary. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hoover Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 19.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hoover Elementary has changed only slightly, going from 278 students in 2018 to 281 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 41% to 23% across the same window.

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