Hoover Elementary School

Hoover Elementary School is one of the middle-of-the-pack K-5 schools in LIVONIA, Michigan, one of the schools within Livonia Public Schools School District, with 524 students on its rolls from grades K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 42% bigger than the state mean of about 369.

Livonia Public Schools School District runs 25 schools in total, collectively educating 12,986 students. Hoover Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Hoover Elementary School reports that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 4% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial, 2% Black. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 49%.

On the resource side, On paper, Hoover Elementary School has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. About 11% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Wayne County's rate of about 66%.

After controlling for student poverty, Hoover Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.2%, the actual is 68.9%, a residual of +7.7 points.

In the area at large, census data for Wayne County shows median household income runs about $60,539, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Hoover Elementary School is one of 573 public schools in Wayne County (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students).

The closest other public school is Holmes Middle School, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Hoover Elementary School comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 59.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 5%: 500 students in 2018 compared to 524 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 22.3:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 in 2025.

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