Herbert Hoover Elementary School

Herbert Hoover Elementary School, an average-sized elementary campus in Iowa City, Iowa, overseen by Iowa City Comm School District, caters to 464 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 43% bigger than the state mean of about 325.

Across the 29 schools in Iowa City Comm School District (15,111 students total), Herbert Hoover Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Herbert Hoover Elementary School lists that the most-represented group is White (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 33% Hispanic, 16% Black, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 76%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Herbert Hoover Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 47% of students at Herbert Hoover Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Johnson County's rate of about 37%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Herbert Hoover Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 68.7%; this one delivers 69.4%.

In the broader community, census data for Johnson County shows median household earnings sit near $74,935, about 55% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Johnson County's 43 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,019 students), Herbert Hoover Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Robert Lucas Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Herbert Hoover Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 61.4%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

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