Mollie B Hoover Elementary School

Mollie B Hoover Elementary School is an elementary school of average-sized scale in Crawfordsville, Indiana, run under Crawfordsville Community Schools, hosting 375 students in grades 4 through 5.

Within Crawfordsville Community Schools, which oversees 7 schools and 2,730 students, Mollie B Hoover Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Mollie B Hoover Elementary School records that the largest single group is White, at 67% of enrollment. The remainder breaks down as 27% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 90%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Mollie B Hoover Elementary School reports 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. About 66% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Montgomery County's rate of about 47%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mollie B Hoover Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 29.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 36.8%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Montgomery County indicate median household income runs about $71,479, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Montgomery County's 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,261 students), Mollie B Hoover Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Crawfordsville Middle School, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Mollie B Hoover Elementary School comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 40.7%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 384 students in 2018 compared to 375 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 16% to 27% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

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