Hoover Elementary School

Hoover Elementary School is a cozy primary school in HAZEL PARK, Michigan, one of the schools within Hazel Park School District of the City of. The school caters to 280 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 24% leaner than the state mean of about 369.

Across the 11 schools in Hazel Park School District of the City of (2,899 students total), Hoover Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Hoover Elementary School lists that the largest single group is Black, at 58% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 36% White, 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Oakland County as a whole is about 13% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Hoover Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 81% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Oakland County's rate of about 32%.

In the broader community, Oakland County reports that median household earnings sit near $97,760, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Oakland County's 345 public schools (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students), Hoover Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Hazel Park High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hoover Elementary School.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hoover Elementary School has fell 19%, going from 344 students in 2018 to 280 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 40% to 58% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 in 2025.

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