Herbert Clark Hoover

Herbert Clark Hoover, a low-enrollment elementary school, is located in Melrose, Massachusetts. The latest federal count shows 260 students in kindergarten through 5. The average for elementary schools in Massachusetts is about 381 students, so this school is 32% smaller than average.

Melrose runs 8 schools with a combined 3,815 students. Herbert Clark Hoover is one of them.

Herbert Clark Hoover is 70% White by enrollment. Other reported shares: 10% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 7% Black, and 4% multiracial. The White share in Middlesex County as a whole is similar, at about 67%. Pick two students at random and there is a 48% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.

The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 13.7:1, with 19 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is higher than the 12.2:1 average for elementary schools in Massachusetts.

Measured against Massachusetts public elementary schools, Herbert Clark Hoover receives an A. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.

Among Middlesex County residents, the median household income is $130,847, roughly 60% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. Herbert Clark Hoover is one of 386 public schools in the county.

Winthrop is located about 0.6 miles from Herbert Clark Hoover. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.

Federal data place Herbert Clark Hoover in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

2024-25 enrollment was 260, a 13% decrease from 300 in 2020-21.

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