Hoover Elementary

As a reasonably sized elementary-level community in Redwood City, California, Hoover Elementary teaches 675 students from grades K through 8, operated by Redwood City Elementary. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Hoover Elementary sits 45% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Redwood City Elementary, which oversees 12 schools and 6,378 students, Hoover Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Hoover Elementary lists that nearly all students (96%) are Hispanic. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

On the resource side, Hoover Elementary reports 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than San Mateo County's rate of about 34%.

After controlling for student poverty, Hoover Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.9%, the actual is 15.3%, a residual of -6.5 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for San Mateo County put median household income runs about $158,855, about 54% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across San Mateo County's 176 public schools (combined enrollment of about 82,403 students), Hoover Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Summit Preparatory Charter High, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hoover Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 39.7%.

Hoover Elementary operates from a high-density location.

Five-year trend. Hoover Elementary's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 692 (now 675). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 24.2:1 in 2018 to 20.4:1 today.

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