Hoover Elementary School

Hoover Elementary School is one of the moderately sized elementary schools in Dubuque, Iowa, one of the schools within Dubuque Comm School District, with 292 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Dubuque Comm School District comprises 19 schools with combined enrollment of 9,843 students; Hoover Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Hoover Elementary School records that 64% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school lists 11% Hispanic, 10% Pacific Islander, 7% multiracial, 6% Black. By comparison, Dubuque County as a whole is about 89% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Hoover Elementary School lists 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 45% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hoover Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 69.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 63.9%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Dubuque County put median household earnings sit near $77,630, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Hoover Elementary School is one of 26 public schools in Dubuque County (combined enrollment of about 13,164 students).

Nearest neighbor: John Kennedy Elementary School, around 0.4 miles off. 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), Hoover Elementary School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 73.1%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hoover Elementary School has ticked down 13%, going from 337 students in 2018 to 292 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 79% to 64%. Class-load math has fell: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 in 2025.

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