Hoover School

Hoover School is an elementary school of small scale in LINCOLN PARK, Michigan, overseen by Lincoln Park School District of the City of, serveing 287 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 22% leaner than the state mean of about 369.

Within Lincoln Park School District of the City of, which oversees 11 schools and 4,846 students, Hoover School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Hoover School reports that 41% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest reads as 34% Hispanic, 16% Black, 7% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 89% of students at Hoover School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Wayne County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hoover School sits in the top 10% of Michigan schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 26.9%; actual is 41.1%, +14.2 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Wayne County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $60,539 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Hoover School is one of 573 public schools in Wayne County (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students).

James Foote School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hoover School. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hoover School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 35.3%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hoover School has expanded 20%, going from 239 students in 2018 to 287 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 51% to 41% across the same window.

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