Herbert Clark Hoover

Located at 37 Glendower Road, in Melrose, Massachusetts, Herbert Clark Hoover is a compact K-5 school that serves 260 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within Melrose. Enrollment runs roughly 32% smaller than the state mean of about 381.

Herbert Clark Hoover is one of 8 schools operated by Melrose, a district that serves 3,815 students overall.

Demographically, Herbert Clark Hoover lists that the largest single group is White, at 70% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 10% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 7% Black, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, Herbert Clark Hoover has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.2:1 average.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Middlesex County indicate the typical household earns roughly $130,847 per year, roughly 60% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Middlesex County's 386 public schools (combined enrollment of about 215,896 students), Herbert Clark Hoover is one campus in the mix.

Winthrop is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Herbert Clark Hoover.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 3%: 269 students in 2018 compared to 260 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 80% to 70% over that span.

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