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If you had an hour of school board time for Hoover Elementary School, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
401
Elementary
DISTRICT 368 · STATE 325
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COUNCIL BLUFFS COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 190822000422
Hoover Elementary School
1205 North Broadway, Council Bluffs, IA 51503 · (712) 328-6537 · Pottawattamie County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL401 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 59% of Iowa public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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 Iowa public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
39%
157 students
DISTRICT 42% · STATE 41%
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 | 22 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 57 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 67 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 63 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 66 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 44 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 82 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (57) is 30% smaller than its 5th grade class (82).
Student demographics
36%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 44% · STATE 48% · 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
Test scores
ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
75.0%
IA avg 73.6% . +0.4pp since 2023
Math
77.8%
IA avg 70.9% . -4.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 78 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Iowa schools, those numbers are about 74 and 71. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 75.0% | 77.8% |
| 2023-24 | 74.6% | 82.6% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: ISASP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
75.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
72.4%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 75% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 72% typical for Iowa schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Iowa's top nor bottom 10%.
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
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hoover Elementary School this school | 401 | 39.2% | 75.0% |
| Fairview Elementary School Carroll | 419 | 40.1% | N/A |
| Harlan Primary Harlan | 342 | 41.2% | N/A |
| E A Kreft Primary School Council Bluffs | 502 | 41.2% | N/A |
| Forest City Elementary School Forest City | 448 | 35.9% | 81.0% |
| New Hampton Elementary School New Hampton | 504 | 40.3% | 73.8% |
Matched among Iowa 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 Iowa | In Pottawattamie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 75.0% | #238 of 564 | #6 of 16 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 77.8% | #261 of 564 ▼ 109 | #7 of 16 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 75.0% | #244 of 564 ▼ 38 | #6 of 16 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 401 | #218 of 705 | #8 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.2:1 | #365 of 561 | #8 of 16 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 36.4% | #291 of 561 | #8 of 16 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 39.2% | #379 of 666 | #12 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.2% | #151 of 359 | #7 of 11 |
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
401
-6 (-1%) vs 2020
-31% since 1990-91, when it was 583
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
was 13.1:1
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 | 401 | 28.3 | 14.2:1 | 39% (157) |
| 2023-24 | 406 | 29.5 | 13.8:1 | 47% (191) |
| 2022-23 | 429 | 30.4 | 14.1:1 | 48% (208) |
| 2020-21 | 407 | 31 | 13.1:1 | 64% (260) |
| 2017-18 | 473 | 28 | 16.9:1 | 55% (261) |
| 2015-16 | 484 | 27 | 17.9:1 | 55% (268) |
| 2010-11 | 358 | 15 | 23.9:1 | 40% (144) |
| 2000-01 | 569 | 31 | 18.4:1 | 22% (128) |
| 1990-91 | 583 | 23 | 25.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hoover Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (473 to 401); teachers up 1% (28 to 28.3).
About Hoover Elementary School
Hoover Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school with an address in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Grades offered run from pre-K through 5, with 401 students enrolled. For comparison, elementary schools in Iowa average about 325 students.
Hoover Elementary School is one of 15 schools in Council Bluffs Comm School District, which enrolls 8,299 students in total.
A majority of students at Hoover Elementary School, 79%, are White. Other reported shares: 12% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 3% Black. Pottawattamie County's residents are about 88% White, 9 points above the school's share. Hoover Elementary School has a diversity index of 36%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Federal staffing data show 28.3 full-time-equivalent teachers at Hoover Elementary School and a ratio of 14.2:1. Across elementary schools in Iowa, the average ratio is about 13.7:1. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 39% of enrollment. Across public schools in Pottawattamie County, the average is about the same, 40%.
Hoover Elementary School is graded B by allk12, scoring above 59% of Iowa public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Hoover Elementary School posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 75.0%, compared with a predicted 72.4%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Iowa schools on BeatsExpectations.
In the county around the school, Pottawattamie County, median household income is about $73,602, about 24% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 8%. A total of 35 public schools operate in Pottawattamie County, serving about 15,270 students.
The next-closest public school is Gerald W Kirn Middle School, about 0.2 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Hoover Elementary School. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Hoover Elementary School is 2nd of 8 on proficiency.
In the federal locale system, Hoover Elementary School is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment at Hoover Elementary School was 407 in 2020-21 and 401 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%. The school's ratio rose from 13.1:1 to 14.2:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
Topics for discussion here include school safety, transportation, and start times. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Pottawattamie County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
93,424
Census ACS
Median income
$73,602
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
35
15,270 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Council Bluffs Comm School District
- Abraham Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 1,333 students
- Thomas Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,146 students
- Gerald W Kirn Middle SchoolMiddle · 913 students
- Woodrow Wilson Middle SchoolMiddle · 855 students
- College View ElementaryElementary · 488 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 455 students
Other schools in Council Bluffs
- Abraham Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 1,333 students
- Thomas Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,146 students
- Lewis Central Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,020 students
- Gerald W Kirn Middle SchoolMiddle · 913 students
- Titan Hill Intermediate SchoolElementary · 901 students
- Woodrow Wilson Middle SchoolMiddle · 855 students
Other Hoover Elementary schools
26 other US public schools in 12 states are named Hoover Elementary. Hoover Elementary School is the 13th largest of the 27.
- Hoover Elementary SchoolCedar Rapids, IA · 420 students
- Hoover Elementary SchoolMason City, IA · 361 students
- Hoover Elementary SchoolWest Branch, IA · 353 students
- Hoover Elementary SchoolDubuque, IA · 292 students
- Hoover ElementaryRedwood City, CA · 675 students
Nearby schools
- Gerald W Kirn Middle School0.2 mi · 913
- Lewis & Clark Elementary School0.9 mi · 271
- Anne E. Nelson Early Learning Center1.1 mi · 119
- Abraham Lincoln High School1.3 mi · 1,333
- Bloomer Elementary School1.4 mi · 396
- College View Elementary1.6 mi · 488
Frequently asked questions
About Hoover Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Hoover Elementary School?
Hoover Elementary School enrolls approximately 401 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Hoover Elementary School serve?
Hoover Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Hoover Elementary School have?
Hoover Elementary School employs 28 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.2:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Hoover Elementary School?
At Hoover Elementary School, the student body is approximately 79% White, 12% Hispanic, 3% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Hoover Elementary School public or private?
Hoover Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Council Bluffs Comm School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.