Hoover Street Elementary

Hoover Street Elementary is a mid-sized elementary campus in Los Angeles, California, run under Los Angeles Unified. The school enrolls 551 students in grades K through 5.

Los Angeles Unified runs 784 schools in total, collectively educating 406,887 students. Hoover Street Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Hoover Street Elementary records that 92% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 3% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Hoover Street Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 98% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Hoover Street Elementary ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 21.1%; Hoover Street Elementary posts 66.8%, +45.7 points above that line.

In the broader community, census data for Los Angeles County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Hoover Street Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Equitas Academy #2, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hoover Street Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 26.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Hoover Street Elementary's enrollment has contracted 26% since 2018, when it stood at 743 (now 551). Class-load math has pulled in: from 22.5:1 in 2018 to 19.7:1 in 2025.

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