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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Hoover Elem School administration to hear?
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Enrollment
571
Elementary
DISTRICT 423 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HOOVER-SCHRUM MEMORIAL SD 157·NCES 171968002242
Hoover Elementary School
1260 Superior Ave, Calumet City, IL 60409 · (708) 862-4230 · Cook County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL571 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 3% of Illinois public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Illinois public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.3:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
35%
200 students
DISTRICT 43% · STATE 56%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 70 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 78 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 77 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 88 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 105 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 77 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 76 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (78) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (76).
Student demographics
43%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 40% · STATE 69% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Hoover Elementary School→Schrum Memorial School
Based on grade levels within Hoover-Schrum Memorial SD 157. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
24.4%
IL avg 51.0% . +3.0pp since 2023
Math
13.0%
IL avg 37.9% . +8.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 24.4% | 13.0% |
| 2023-24 | 21.4% | 4.4% |
% Proficient (Levels 4-5), all students and all tested grades.
Source: IAR + ISA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of IL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
16.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.3%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-34.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 17% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 51% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Hoover Elementary School
Hoover Elementary School's state test result (16.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hoover Elementary School this school | 571 | 35.0% | 16.9% |
| Clissold Elementary School Chicago | 508 | 33.7% | 26.4% |
| Arcadia Elementary School Olympia Fields | 516 | 43.6% | 36.1% |
| Western Avenue Elementary School Flossmoor | 499 | 39.3% | 55.0% |
| Ray Elementary School Chicago | 613 | 44.9% | 30.1% |
| Sutherland Elementary School Chicago | 641 | 34.3% | 39.4% |
Matched among Illinois elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Hoover Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 16.9% | #1,704 of 1,925 | #631 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 13.0% | #1,798 of 2,077 ▲ 95 | #647 of 829 ▲ 64 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 24.4% | #1,825 of 2,077 ▼ 303 | #708 of 829 ▼ 154 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 571 | #335 of 2,419 | #179 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.3:1 | #1,323 of 2,035 | #593 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.8% | #1,087 of 2,042 | #405 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 35.0% | #1,674 of 2,132 | #684 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.2% | #1,459 of 1,461 | #661 of 661 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
571
+56 (+11%) vs 2020
+250% since 1990-91, when it was 163
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 571 | 40 | 14.3:1 | 35% (200) |
| 2023-24 | 528 | 39 | 13.5:1 | 41% (214) |
| 2022-23 | 556 | 36.5 | 15.2:1 | 58% (322) |
| 2020-21 | 515 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 572 | 38 | 15.1:1 | 99% (566) |
| 2015-16 | 629 | 39 | 16.1:1 | 98% (614) |
| 2010-11 | 593 | 36 | 16.5:1 | 85% (505) |
| 2000-01 | 296 | 15 | 19.7:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 163 | 10 | 16.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hoover Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students unchanged (572 to 571); teachers up 5% (38 to 40).
About Hoover Elementary School
Hoover Elementary School is the name of a mid-sized elementary school in Calumet City, Illinois. It is open to students in pre-K through 5 and enrolls 571 students. That is 50% above the average of about 381 students for elementary schools in Illinois.
District-wide, Hoover-Schrum Memorial SD 157 has 2 schools and 845 students.
Federal enrollment data show Hoover Elementary School is 71% Black. Other groups include 26% Hispanic. The county population is about 22% Black. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 43, compared with 70 nationally.
Hoover Elementary School lists 40 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 14.3 students per teacher. The ratio is within a point of the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 35% of the student body. The 66% average for public schools in Cook County is 31 points higher.
Among Illinois public elementary schools, Hoover Elementary School outscored 3%, which works out to an F on the allk12 Grade.
A school in Illinois with Hoover Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch share would be expected to score about 51.3%. Hoover Elementary School scores 16.9%.
In Cook County, home to about 5,182,090 people, the median household earns about $83,498 a year, roughly 43% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Cook County number 1,406, with about 697,934 students.
Hoover Elementary School's nearest public school is Schrum Memorial School (about 0.7 miles). Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Hoover Elementary School is 6th of 8 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
NCES assigns Hoover Elementary School the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment increased 11%.
People who know Hoover Elementary School can post here about special education services, counseling, and support programs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Cook County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
5,182,090
Census ACS
Median income
$83,498
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,406
697,934 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Hoover-Schrum Memorial SD 157
- Schrum Memorial SchoolMiddle · 274 students
Other schools in Calumet City
- Thornton Fractnl No High SchoolHigh · 1,425 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 717 students
- Caroline Sibley Elementary SchoolElementary · 434 students
- Wilson Elementary SchoolElementary · 349 students
- Wentworth Intermediate SchoolElementary · 315 students
- Wentworth Jr High SchoolMiddle · 302 students
Other Hoover Elementary schools
26 other US public schools in 12 states are named Hoover Elementary. Hoover Elementary School is the 7th largest of the 27.
- Hoover ElementaryRedwood City, CA · 675 students
- Hoover Elementary SchoolLanghorne, PA · 661 students
- Hoover Elementary SchoolKATY, TX · 660 students
- Hoover ElementaryStockton, CA · 654 students
- Hoover Elementary SchoolMedford, OR · 591 students
Nearby schools
- Schrum Memorial School0.7 mi · 274
- Lincoln Elementary School1.0 mi · 717
- Reavis Elementary School1.1 mi · 362
- Thornton Fractnl No High School1.1 mi · 1,425
- Kenwood Elementary School1.2 mi · 267
- Wentworth Jr High School1.5 mi · 302
Frequently asked questions
About Hoover Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Hoover Elementary School?
Hoover Elementary School enrolls approximately 571 students in grades PK-05.
Is Hoover Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Hoover Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Hoover Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Hoover Elementary School is approximately 14.3:1 (40 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Hoover Elementary School?
Student demographics at Hoover Elementary School are roughly 1% White, 26% Hispanic, 71% Black, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Hoover Elementary School?
Hoover Elementary School is overseen by Hoover-Schrum Memorial SD 157 in Cook County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.