Hoover Elementary

Hoover Elementary is a primary school of reasonably sized scale in Stockton, California, run under Stockton Unified, instructing 654 students in grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 41% larger than typical.

Stockton Unified comprises 54 schools with combined enrollment of 33,590 students; Hoover Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Hoover Elementary records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 68%. Beyond that, the school reports 9% Black, 8% White, 7% Asian, 6% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 43%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Hoover Elementary has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.9:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 83% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against San Joaquin County (around 66%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Hoover Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.9%, the actual is 18.8%, a residual of -11.1 points.

In the broader community, census data for San Joaquin County shows the typical household earns roughly $92,179 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Hoover Elementary is one of 251 public schools in San Joaquin County (combined enrollment of about 153,026 students).

Commodore Stockton Skills is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hoover Elementary. On composite proficiency, Hoover Elementary comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 32.0%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hoover Elementary has climbed 4%, going from 630 students in 2018 to 654 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 57% to 68% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 28.3:1 in 2018 to 23.9:1 in 2025.

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