Enrollment
292
Elementary
DISTRICT 349 · STATE 325
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DUBUQUE COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 190948000609
Hoover Elementary School
3259 St Anne Dr, Dubuque, IA 52001 · (563) 552-3700 · Dubuque County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL292 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 18% of Iowa public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats 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
13.2:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
45%
130 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 41%
Community
0
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 | 26 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 42 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 40 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 32 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 48 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 43 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 61 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (42) is 31% smaller than its 5th grade class (61).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · 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
62.2%
IA avg 73.6% . +0.5pp since 2023
Math
61.5%
IA avg 70.9% . -0.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 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 have held steady.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 62.2% | 61.5% |
| 2023-24 | 61.7% | 61.7% |
% 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
63.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.7%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% 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
Hoover Elementary School's state test result (63.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hoover Elementary School this school | 292 | 44.5% | 63.9% |
| Meeker Elementary School Ames | 361 | 42.1% | 75.9% |
| Jefferson Elementary School Des Moines | 312 | 41.3% | 70.7% |
| Carter Lake Elementary School Carter Lake | 301 | 45.5% | 51.6% |
| Linn Grove Elementary School Marion | 385 | 44.4% | 70.5% |
| Harding Elementary School Mason City | 387 | 45.2% | 66.8% |
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 Dubuque County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 63.9% | #425 of 564 | #11 of 16 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 61.5% | #467 of 564 ▼ 5 | #12 of 16 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.2% | #438 of 564 ▼ 20 | #11 of 16 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 292 | #398 of 705 | #13 of 16 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.2:1 | #246 of 561 | #8 of 16 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.6% | #172 of 561 | #4 of 16 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 44.5% | #288 of 666 | #6 of 16 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.4% | #175 of 359 | #3 of 7 |
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
292
-5 (-2%) vs 2020
+7% since 1990-91, when it was 272
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
was 11.4:1
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 | 292 | 22.2 | 13.2:1 | 45% (130) |
| 2023-24 | 286 | 22.9 | 12.5:1 | 42% (121) |
| 2022-23 | 303 | 23.8 | 12.7:1 | 47% (142) |
| 2020-21 | 297 | 26 | 11.4:1 | 44% (130) |
| 2017-18 | 337 | 23.6 | 14.3:1 | 33% (110) |
| 2015-16 | 330 | 23 | 14.3:1 | 33% (108) |
| 2010-11 | 258 | 19 | 13.6:1 | 29% (74) |
| 2000-01 | 296 | 20 | 14.8:1 | 20% (58) |
| 1990-91 | 272 | 16 | 17.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hoover Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (337 to 292); teachers down 6% (23.6 to 22.2).
About Hoover Elementary School
Hoover Elementary School is an elementary school in Dubuque, Iowa, and it is part of Dubuque Comm School District. It enrolls 292 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are pre-K through 5.
The Dubuque Comm School District system has 19 schools and 9,843 students.
The share of White students at Hoover Elementary School is 64%, a majority. It is also 11% Hispanic, 10% Pacific Islander, 7% multiracial, and 6% Black. For comparison, the population of Dubuque County is roughly 89% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Hoover Elementary School scores 56%.
For every teacher at Hoover Elementary School, there are about 13.2 students; the school has 22.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average ratio among elementary schools in Iowa is similar, at 13.7:1. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 45%.
Among Iowa public elementary schools, Hoover Elementary School outscored 18%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
Compared with Iowa schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Hoover Elementary School's results are 5.8 points below predicted: 63.9% against 69.7%.
The county, Dubuque County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $77,630, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 33% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 6%. The county has 26 public schools and about 13,164 students.
Of the public schools around it, Hoover Elementary School is closest to John Kennedy Elementary School, about 0.4 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On average proficiency, Hoover Elementary School is 8th of 8 nearby schools with test data.
NCES lists the school's locale as City: Small. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment held near 292, starting from 297. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 11.4:1 to 13.2:1.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about open houses, carpools, and field trips at Hoover Elementary School. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Dubuque County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
99,030
Census ACS
Median income
$77,630
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
26
13,164 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Dubuque Comm School District
- Hempstead High SchoolHigh · 1,499 students
- Dubuque Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,490 students
- Eleanor Roosevelt Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,081 students
- George Washington Middle SchoolMiddle · 584 students
- Eisenhower Elementary SchoolElementary · 568 students
- Carver Elementary SchoolElementary · 499 students
Other schools in Dubuque
- Hempstead High SchoolHigh · 1,499 students
- Dubuque Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,490 students
- Eleanor Roosevelt Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,081 students
- George Washington Middle SchoolMiddle · 584 students
- Eisenhower Elementary SchoolElementary · 568 students
- Carver Elementary SchoolElementary · 499 students
Other Hoover Elementary schools
26 other US public schools in 12 states are named Hoover Elementary. Hoover Elementary School is the 18th largest of the 27.
- Hoover Elementary SchoolCedar Rapids, IA · 420 students
- Hoover Elementary SchoolCouncil Bluffs, IA · 401 students
- Hoover Elementary SchoolMason City, IA · 361 students
- Hoover Elementary SchoolWest Branch, IA · 353 students
- Hoover ElementaryRedwood City, CA · 675 students
Nearby schools
- John Kennedy Elementary School0.4 mi · 493
- Hempstead High School0.7 mi · 1,499
- Irving Elementary School0.9 mi · 409
- Dubuque Online School1.0 mi · 249
- Eisenhower Elementary School1.2 mi · 568
- Dubuque Senior High School1.3 mi · 1,490
Frequently asked questions
About Hoover Elementary SchoolHow large is Hoover Elementary School?
Hoover Elementary School enrolls approximately 292 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.
How many teachers does Hoover Elementary School have?
Hoover Elementary School employs 22 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.2:1.
What is the student diversity at Hoover Elementary School?
Student demographics at Hoover Elementary School are roughly 64% White, 11% Hispanic, 6% Black, 2% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Hoover Elementary School in?
Hoover Elementary School is part of Dubuque Comm School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.