Hoover Middle

Set in Lakewood, California, Hoover Middle is a small intermediate school, operated by Long Beach Unified. It serves 505 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Hoover Middle sits 23% leaner than that benchmark.

Long Beach Unified runs 82 schools in total, collectively educating 62,255 students. Hoover Middle is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Hoover Middle lists that 53% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest is composed of 25% Black, 11% Asian, 4% White, 3% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Roughly 64% of students at Hoover Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hoover Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.4%; this one delivers 34.5%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Hoover Middle is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Riley Elementary, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Hoover Middle comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 51.1%.

Hoover Middle operates from a commuter-belt location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hoover Middle has declined 36%, going from 795 students in 2018 to 505 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 48% to 53% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 27.4:1 in 2018 to 22.0:1 in 2025.

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